Keyboard shortcuts for Bold and Italic text
It would be useful if, while typing/editing text, there was a keyboard shortcut to add BOLD or ITALICS - highlight the word, hit CTRL + B to bold, for example.
Simon Bowland
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Dear users,
We have started working on this and it will be soon available to you for try out in BETA. Thanks for your feedbacks!
Thanks
Saurav Agrawal
Product Manager, Illustrator
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InDesign uses Ctrl+Shift+B and Ctrl+Shift+I for these.
In Illustrator these are also taken by, Toggle Bounding Box and Toggle Perspective Grid... but changing these seems less harmful than taking away Paste in Back and Spellchecking.
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In case you wonder — Corel Draw has it for years. And almost literally every tool has too.
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Everybody got used to it, I know.
And there are way more font weights and styles than Bold and Italics, sure, especially in slow but inevitable advance of whatever-you-slide-your-sliders fonts..
And some fonts prefer to display as separate entities in font families list, instead of being one family and several styles (sure Ai should merge them!)But sometimes it is so much faster to press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I while editing....
Unfortunately Ai don’t know what it is. It Pastes in Back and Checks Spelling instead.I think you should add these, and use them only when user is in text edit mode.
You should allow users to customize these too. -
DPD
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And CTRL+U for underline. For Italic, most programs use CTRL+I.
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Art Qureshient
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ctrl + B is not working in illustrator
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L.T. commented
If you're interested in this feature, see this suggestion (which is a bit more comprehensive) and add your vote: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/32307397-increment-decrement-stroke-weight-key-commands
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Anonymous
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It would be useful if, while typing/editing text, there was a keyboard shortcut to add BOLD or ITALICS - highlight the word, hit CTRL + B to bold, for example.
