Hi,

I created a keyboard shortctu for system preferences with no problem.

Ricardo Walker
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On Feb 21, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote:

> Hi Ricardo,
> 
> thanks for your answer but as I discribed in my e-mail to Esther, it doesn't 
> work to create a short cut.
> 
> All the best
> Jürgen
> 
> Am 13.02.2012 um 17:21 schrieb Ricardo Walker:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> open the app and find the menu item you want to make a shortcut for then, 
>> when you've navigated to the option in the menu, press VO shift C to copy 
>> last phrase to clipboard.  Now you can set up your shortcut in preferences 
>> by pasting the name of the item in the menu bar.
>> 
>> hth
>> 
>> Ricardo Walker
>> [email protected]
>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>> www.appletothecore.info
>> 
>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Dean,
>>> 
>>> thanks for your detailed diskription. But I didn't meant the keyboard 
>>> commander in VoiceOver.
>>> 
>>> What I'm looking for is the keyboard section in system preferences. There 
>>> you have the possibility to create shortcuts for each command in a programs 
>>> menue. Just look at it and try it out. It's wonderful.
>>> 
>>> But it's not possible to simply give a shortcut to a command with an 
>>> elipsis at the end. So again:
>>> 
>>> Can anyone give me a hint how to create shortcuts for such commands in the 
>>> menue?
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure about it but I think it might have been Esther who posted an 
>>> information to that.
>>> 
>>> Thanks and all the best
>>> Jürgen
>>> Am 13.02.2012 um 12:19 schrieb Dean Adams:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Jurgen,
>>>>    You can assign program short cuts by using the keyboard commanders in 
>>>> voice over utility and choose commanders and stop interacting and VO right 
>>>> arrow to keyboard and then VO Space bar and then VO right arrow to the 
>>>> check box that says use keyboard comanders and press Vo Space bar then Vo 
>>>> right arrow to the keyboard commanders table where you can assign quick 
>>>> keys to open your most used programs. You will find ones there for safari 
>>>> and mail by default the keyboard commanders uses the right option key then 
>>>> a key of your own choosing, but there are already some being used like s 
>>>> and the right option key for safari and m and the right option key for 
>>>> mail. First interact with the keyboard commanders table and check what 
>>>> keys are being used you can Vo up and down arrow to check which keys are 
>>>> already being used and to check which actions are being activated by VO 
>>>> right arrow to the action for each key so for example once you have 
>>>> interacted with the commanders table VO up and down arrow till it says the 
>>>> S key then VO right arrow till it says command open program safari, you 
>>>> can only use one key for each action. To add another action for two key 
>>>> press actions do the following.
>>>> Stop interacting with the keyboard commanders table and VO right arrow to 
>>>> the add button it will then automatically land you on the keyboard 
>>>> commanders table press the key you want to use like I use the letter e for 
>>>> text edit, then you have to interact with the keyboard commanders table 
>>>> where you have just put the e for text edit then make sure you are on the 
>>>> e in the table then VO right arrow to the next section which is command 
>>>> menu press VO Space bar and then VO down Arrow till it says custom 
>>>> commands VO right arrow it will say open program press VO Space bar then 
>>>> VO right arrow till you get to the browse area then interact and find text 
>>>> edit stop interacting and then VO right arrow to the Open default button 
>>>> and there you go you have created a two key short cut to text edit . So to 
>>>> go to text edit you only have to press the right option key and the E key 
>>>> . You can do this for as many times as you want but you can only use 1 
>>>> letter for each operation . I have done this for skype text edit Vlc 
>>>> player mac mail and safari and DVD player.
>>>> Hope this is not to long winded .
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from Dean Adams Macbook Pro
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> phone: 0243206031
>>>> Mobile: 0428133758
>>>> Skype : deanadams9
>>>> 
>>>> On 13/02/2012, at 9:43 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> in system preferences there is a possibility to create your own shortcuts 
>>>>> for each program. That works fine. But only for commands without … (three 
>>>>> dots) at the end. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I remember once someone posted a solution for that but can't find it 
>>>>> anymore. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So can anyone tell me how to create shortcuts for commands in a menue 
>>>>> like "Silents  …".
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks and all the best
>>>>> Jürgen
>>>>> 
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