You would think that this wouldn't be the case when you're trying to open up a file with a custom app. So to set your own keyboard shortcut the Menu item needs to appear somewhere in one of the menus. The default is fine but I use these two apps often enough that I want to have an easier way to open it than go into the Context Menu and then Open With and then selecting one of them. I very often use either this or this app to open up the text file. If I Control click on it I can see all the apps that handle text files. Double click on that and it opens up in TextEdit by default. There's a similar situation here with a text file. But I often use either Acorn, Affinity Photo, or Pixelmator Pro to open up images and setting a default with the Option key so always Open With is now the Option and setting it to something like Affinity Photo doesn't make sense because sometimes I'm going to want to open it up in this app or this app or even back to Preview. Now some of these I rarely ever use to open up images, like web browsers for instance. If I Control click or right finger click on a mouse or two-finger click on a trackpad to bring up the Context Menu I could go to Open With and you could see the long list of apps I have that can handle image files. If I were to double click on the image file it would open up with Preview. For instance, here's an image file, here's a text file. I've got documents that can be opened in multiple apps. So here's a problem I often run into myself. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Today let me show you how to create keyboard shortcuts to open documents with specific apps. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. However, I wish InDesign made it easier, and did a look where the path of the file was originally before opening the dialog box and navigate you there – or at least ask.Īnyway – it doesn’t so we’re left with workarounds.Check out How To Create a Keyboard Shortcut To Open a File In a Specific App at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. I hate saving randomly all over the hard drive etc. However, the easiest method is to have Work Folder that’s in the Quick Access (both Windows and Mac have this as a SideBar in the Dialog Windows) and have your files logically saved in an order within your work folder. Once you have that setup it’s quite straight forward. When in the Save Dialog box in InDesign press CMD Shift G and it brings up the path dialog – and paste that there. This allows you copy the path of any file. On the Mac – the file path is trickier as it’s hidden – but you can add it to the Contextual menu for a file – there’s a tiny bit of setup – go to and see the section titled Create a “Copy Path” Service for the Right-Click Menu In Windows I just have the folder open where the file resides, and you can copy and paste the File Path to the Save Dialog box and it opens the right folder right there – takes seconds. I’m not sure if there is something similar on Windows. This might be because I use Default Folder on my Mac. InDesign seems to always remember what folder the document was in and takes me there when I need to use Save As. I have to say that I don’t usually have this problem. That said, many users find it very frustrating that InDesign sometimes doesn’t remember the location of the original file was (which folder it’s in). For example, if InDesign saved over the original file automatically, you might have trouble opening the file in an earlier version of the program. So the fact that your document opens as Converted and then forces a Save As is actually a safety measure. The InDesign app is actually reading a database file! And, just like FileMaker or other database programs have to “update your database” whenever they’re updated, InDesign does, too. Now this seems crazy at first, but here’s the reason it happens: Most people don’t realize that the InDesign file format is actually a database. Whenever you upgrade InDesign, documents also have to go through a conversion process. The reason InDesign opens your document as - and therefore requires that you use Save As instead of Save - is that you must have upgraded your version of InDesign between the time you created the document and the time you’re editing it. This is “a feature not a bug,” but I agree that it can be incredibly frustrating. Whenever I open a document I haven’t used for about 6 months, I make a little modification and save it, InDesign chooses to “save as” instead of a simple save.
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