Adobe has taken steps to ease keyboard-shortcut overload across its entire product line, and Dreamweaver??™s
no exception. Dreamweaver offers a Keyboard Shortcut Editor that enables you to both standardize and customize
the key combinations used in the program. Choose from the Dreamweaver standard set or use sets
taken from BBEdit, Dreamweaver MX 2004, or HomeSite.
If you??™re a ColdFusion Studio user switching to Dreamweaver, you??™ll really appreciate the capability to add
keyboard shortcuts to snippets. You can even select a set from an entirely different program such as
HomeSite or BBEdit. Best of all, any keyboard shortcut can be personalized to represent a combination that??™s
easy for you to remember.
Simple selection process
As with most modern layout programs, to modify anything in Dreamweaver, you must select it first. The
usual process to do this is to click an object to highlight it or to click and drag over a block of text to select
it. Dreamweaver adds another selection option with the Tag Selector feature. Click anywhere on a Web page
under construction and then look at Dreamweaver??™s status bar. The applicable tags appear on the left side of
the status bar.
In the example shown in Figure 2-9, the Tag Selector shows
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