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On macOS, you use Alt+Left/Right to go back and forward whole words, and Cmd+Left/Right to go back and forth lines.

One thing I hate about Adobe and Microsoft applications on macOS is that they obliterate these shortcuts, and they are the only apps on macOS which do this. They made Cmd+Left/Right go back and forward words, not lines.

On InDesign, I always try pressing Alt+Left/Right as per my muscle memory, but this changes spacing which is annoying because I always do it accidentally.

On Publisher, thankfully you can disable this by removing the keyboard shortcuts. But is there a way to get the default macOS behavior back? Now when I press Alt+Left/Right, nothing happens—I want it to go back and forward words though. And I want to change the Cmd one to go back and forward lines.

Anyone have any ideas? I'd prefer not to use a third-party tool to remap these shortcuts and all that stuff.

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I believe that capability is coming in 1.8, and is usable now in the 1.8 beta for testing.

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53 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I believe that capability is coming in 1.8, and is usable now in the 1.8 beta for testing.

And how would one enable it in the Beta? 

Edit: actually I see it! They're just more keyboard shortcuts

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FWIW (Beta 1.8.0.523 for MacOS) :

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"Apple defaults" use Alt+arrow to jump the cursor word-by-word. "Serif defaults" use the same shortcuts to modify paragraph leading. 

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2 hours ago, h_d said:

 

"Apple defaults" use Alt+arrow to jump the cursor word-by-word. "Serif defaults" use the same shortcuts to modify paragraph leading

Not leading but kerning.

Leading uses the up and down arrows not the left and right ones.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Not leading but kerning.

Ah yes, my mistake.

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