Right Click Menu Enhancements (Cut, Copy, Paste, Lock, Unlock, etc)
Can you please add simple tasks like "Lock / UnLock" and "Cut, Copy, Paste" to the the right-click menu? This would help speed up workflow and make illustrator more integrated with other Adobe products. I can right-click my mouse and quickly copy and paste in Indesign and even in Microsoft Word, but not in Illustrator? It's odd. Please consider fixing this. Thank you.
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Joseph Tanami
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Allow users to select what shortcuts or tools, actions, etc... appear in the default Right click popup panel.
The same way we can choose which tools show in which docks i believe it would improve productivity speed tremendously for users using mice or devices that either have awkward or no hot key peripherals. eg a a laptop or wireless keyboard that has strange key arrangements. non cintiq users ... even cintiq users could benefit... esp. mobile users in tight places where you can't fold out wireless shortcut devices like on trains and planes, buses, cars etc...
It started with me wishing i could just have the cut and paste options in the right click panel but now I'm realizing i use so many actions over and over during each project it would be great if i could just set those actions in that panel early on each project start -perhaps even save different right click panel layouts and name them to be loaded depending on the type of project.
thanks for considering!
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Glen Charles Rowell commented
Please.
Why doesn't Illustrator have these basic copy, cut and paste settings in the context menu like almost every other program? It's just super annoying when we go back and forth between programs. Why do I need to use the keyboard or a drop down menu >-< instead of the super useful context menu.
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Jaymes Reed
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YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.
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Jaymes Reed
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Illustrator should add copy/paste functionality to the right-click context menu like InDesign already has. Comic book letterers like myself primarily use illustrator to do our jobs & I would save MANY, MANY steps per page if they would do this. Thanks!
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Toelio
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Like any other software ever, you would expect there to be a pop-up menu when right-clicking on a layer. For some reason, this has always been lacking in Ai, and has been bugging me since day 1.
The pop up menu should include all standard stuff like: copy / paste / duplicate / group / ungroup etc.
What I especially miss is a "rename all" button when selecting multiple layers.
Everyone always ends up with many many layers, yet there is no way to multiple rename layers!?Also, a quick export option would be great to have in a simple right-click pop-up menu!
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Mr.38k
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I totally agree with you!
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Jason Wester
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Up vote
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Ina Lee
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totall agreed, totally
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MANI
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To make Adobe Illustrator easier to use and more accessible, it would be helpful to have Copy, Paste, Paste in place, and Clear commands included in the contextual menu (right-click menu). Beyond that, I would like to have the ability to customize the contextual menu to help further refine and streamline the options to those most frequently used.
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Andrew B
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Every time I want to flip vertical or horizontal I right click and then... oh, I need to go to the Transform palette hamburger menu to get that command! It really should be available as a right-click like in InDesign:
Right click > Transform > ...
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I never use right-click menu, and I really wish to.
I think it should be customizable and have real CONTEXT commands at it by default.
Voted.