Hello Jürgen, To create keyboard shortcuts of those menu options which end with an ellipsis, in Snow Leopard and Lion you navigate to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts (tab 2 of 2) and select the option from a table.
1. If the menu command is for a specific application, navigate to the "Shortcuts categories" table and interact, then select "Application Shortcuts". 2. Stop interacting and navigate to the "Add an application shortcut" button and press (VO-Space). 3. In the dialog window, change the pop up menu button for the application from "All Applications" to the one that you want (e.g., VO-Space and use arrow keys and/or type the first letters of the name, like "i t" for iTunes), and press return. 4. Then type in the name of the command you want in the text box for "Menu Title:". For example, I created a shortcut for the "Page Setup…" option in the File menu of iTunes this way. (It's something that I'd never want to use, and I'm going to get rid of it right away, but it shows this method works). I typed in "Page Setup…" using the Option+semi-colon shortcut to type the ellipsis at the end of "Setup". 5. Then I typed in a keyboard shortcut, Shift-Control-Option-Command-P, and pressed the "Add" button. 6. I closed the Keyboard window with Command-W. Sure enough, if I'm in the iTunes app, pressing this combination brings up the Page Setup window. However, I immediately went back to the page to delete this shortcut, since I'm never going to use it and just tried this out to make sure I could assign a shortcut this way. If the menu option only appears for a specific application, then you have to select that application before trying to assign the shortcut. I believe there are "Page Setup…" menu options for other applications, but you'll have to set up your shortcut again for those applications. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hallo Esther, > > Am 13.02.2012 um 16:19 schrieb Esther: > >> The ellipsis character is typed using a keyboard shortcut with the Option >> key. On a US or other English language input keyboard, this combination can >> be typed by pressing Option+semi-colon. Assuming that you are using a >> German input language keyboard, this combination can be typed by pressing >> Option+period. >> > Thanks for this. > >> However, a more general way to get the exact menu command you need for a >> keyboard shortcut is to use VO-Shift-C, which is the VoiceOver shortcut to >> copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard. Then paste in this phrase >> with Command-V. I usually paste into a TextEdit window as an intermediate > > That's what I also do but in that special case it doesn't work. Of course it > works to copy the phrase to the clipboard so that I can paste it. But what > doesn't work is to create a functioning short cut when a menue command has an > elipsis. The chosen short cut apears in the system preferences but not in the > menue of the program. > > Do you have an idea how to solve that issue? Or is it just not possible to > create short cuts for menue commands with elipsisses? > > Thanks and all the best > Jürgen > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
