Hi Nic, I just tried to set up your keyboard shortcut to save attachments with Command-Option-Shift-A in Mail, and everything worked correctly. On the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab of the "Keyboard" pane of System Preferences I selected "Application Shortcuts" in the table of preferences. Then I navigated to the "Add Application shortcut" button and pressed it. I changed the pop up menu button for the Application from "All Applications" to "Mail". Then, under the "Menu Title" text box I typed in "Save As…", and typed in the shortcut combination Command-Shift-Option-A into the text box for the Keyboard Shortcut.
You have to type the text in the "Menu Title" exactly as it appears in the File menu of Mail (or any other command you are trying to shortcut) -- which means that you need to either use VO-Shift-C to copy the command, or else know that you need to type the ellipsis character after "Save As" with the Option+Semi-colon shortcut. That also means that you need to type a capital "S" and a capital "A" at the start of the two words, and not include any spaces between "As" and the ellipsis character. You cannot make up the "Menu Title" entry unless you have custom created an AppleScript, Automator service or workflow with that particular name that you want to associate with a shortcut. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 17, 7:23 am, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > > I've been trying to add my own custom keyboard shortcuts. I've found the > place to do it in the keyboard panel of system preferences. I've added some > new custom application shortcuts but they're mostly not working. > > The ones I've tried so far are as follows: > > Option-Command-Shift-A for saving attachments in Mail. I just wrote "Save > Attachments" as the menu description. However, it's not working. > > Option-Command-Shift-T for sharing a webpage with Twitter in Safari. I just > wrote "Twitter" as the menu description. This seemed to conflict with some > other short cut so I changed it to Option-Shift-T but it now takes me to the > Twitter webpage instead of sharing the current page via Twitter. > > Option-Command-Shift-F to share with Facebook in Safari. I again just wrote > "Facebook" as the menu description. However, this too just takes me to the > Facebook page instead of sharing the current page via Facebook. > > Option-Command-Shift-S to sync my iPhone in iTunes. I was confused as to what > this menu item was as it changes depending on what's connected to iTunes. > I've tried several different things but none have worked so far. > > If anyone can explain where I'm going wrong and/or explain how to properly > add custom keyboard shortcuts I'd really appreciate it. > > thanks in advance! > > Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
