Is it possible to link a toolbar button or shortcut to a specific style

[Casper_Lange]

I want to build a custom toolbar with buttons that select a specific style. Is it possible to link a button to a specific style from our stylesheet? Or a keyboard shortcut? Or is it only possible to open the styles menu with a button or shortcut key?

Thanks for your help.

Casper Lange

[RoboColum_n_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Topmanager Casper Lange and welcome to the RH community. Are you saying you want a toolbar to use whilst editing in the WYSIWYG? There are a series of keyboard shortcuts for use in RH which you can look up in the help. Failing that, I use Macro Express for assigning styles. It is only $40.

[Casper_Lange]

Hi Colum,

Please, this "Topmanager" was someones foul joke,
I have already filed a request to delete this from my screen name. So far off topic.

Thanks for answering. I found the shortcut keys for the RoboHelp default styles. As you can imagine our stylesheet is somewhat more complex than this. So my next stop will be Macro Express.

[RoboColum_n_]

What version of RH are you using? Someone could come in here but I seem to remember that RH7 allows you to assign more keyboard shortcuts to styles. Before that and a macro program is the way to go.

[Peter Grainge]

Where did you find the keyboard shortcuts for the default styles?

[Captiv8r]

Hi Peter

I'm guessing they must be documented in the help somewhere. But the typical style shortcuts are:

Ctrl+Alt+1 = Apply Heading 1
Ctrl+Alt+2 = Apply Heading 2
Ctrl+Alt+3 = Apply Heading 3

Cheers all... Rick

[Casper_Lange]

Open the Helpfile
Search for Shortcut style
Open the first topic

Styles in Design Editor

Apply a style* CTRL+SHIFT+S

Apply the Normal style CTRL+SHIFT+N

Apply a Bullets or Numbering style CTRL+SHIFT+L

Apply Heading 1* ALT+CTRL+1

Apply Heading 2* ALT+CTRL+2

Apply Heading 3* ALT+CTRL+3

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And Colum: we use RH7. I can define a custom toolbar, but I can only drag the style combobox to this toolbar. I cannot define my own buttons to apply a user-defined style.

[Peter Grainge]

Thanks. I thought you had found them in the Customise dialog and I could not see them there.