Option + Arrow to duplicate and move text
Please bring back the ability to duplicate and move text with the Option + Arrow keys. It was an incredibly handy feature. I used it all the time and it has been sorely missed.
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Mike Boruta commented
I'm not sure if this will help, but I just discovered a very handy plugin for duplicating objects with one keystroke. It doesn't use the clipboard and very efficiently duplicates whatever you have selected and places it on top. Perhaps you could use this to duplicate your text, and then the arrow keys to move the text?
Here's a link to the plugin:
https://blog.mikeswanson.com/post/162500942564/duplicate -
Bring back?... As I am aware of (and I even rechecked it in CS6 an Ai 10 versions) — it was never a thing.
Opt/Alt + Up/Down arrows had always changed leading, and Left/Arrow — tracking... if you have ONLY type objects selected. If you have something else selected with your text, Opt/Alt + Arrows duplicate the selection.
Modern Ai behaves the same way, it never changed. Perhaps that’s what you remember?Persoanlly — not sure it should be changed, or even an option should exist to disable this... I’d rather prefer to have an option to NOT duplicate when a text is selected, but change the text parameters :) But it means only we use Illustrator very differently. So perhaps a way should exist.
