Keyboard shortcut for Object > Path > Offset Path gets lost and the command is missing in Keyboard Shortcuts dialog
I use Offset Path a lot in my work, so I have set a keyboard shortcut for it — Cmd+Shift+Å. This has worked always, until now.
Now I cant even see the Object > Path > Offset Path in Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. Still I see that this function has a shortcut, but not the one I have set. See pictures.
Now I noticed, that system changes the keyboard setting that I've made to Effect > Path > Offset Path.
Is thee a way around, or is this something that I'll need to wait to be fixed?
Miika Peltonen
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Happens also with non-English versions:
Offset Path command is missing in Swedish and Italian version
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50894600 -
Kathleen
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For the past few months I've had a shortcut key assigned to Object - Path - Offset Path. About 2 weeks ago it stopped functioning. I went to reapply it to the Keyboard Shortcuts panel and found that it no longer exists. I can see it in the dropdown menus on the interface between Outline Stroke and Reverse Path Direction, but it doesn't show up at all anymore in the shortcuts. I'm not sure what happened but I'd really like to get it back as it's a huge timesaver with my job. Any advice would be appreciated.
MAC Studio, Sequoia 15.7.4
AI Version 30.2.1 -
Marilena Gracchi commented
In the Keyboard Shortcuts menu under Object > Path, the "Offset Path" and "Outline Path" actions are no longer available.
I know how the commands work, and when there are conflicts, I always find an alternative. But now with the new Illustrator 29.8.1 update (September 2025), I've lost these two actions in the PATH section, which I usually use for my work. So I can't assign my custom hotkey. -
I have exactly the same problem.
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Please, send over these specific .kys-files to sharewithai@adobe.com for the investigation.
It feels like Ai can’t read or allow to use the combinations used; Cmd + Shift + Å (perhaps because of the overring) and Ctrl + F4 (because it’s a system combination to close the document — Ai even does not allow me to assign it in the first place, so I am surprised you were bale to assign it in the first place).
A workaround would be to create the set anew, and see if it stumbles at this specific hotkey in particular. Please comment back on this. -
Hasti
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it's my serious problem, I used to f4 short key for offset path, but change automatically to Ctrl+f4 and after reset my keyboard short keys disappeared from object panel .
