In his Power Shortcuts workshop from last year's Adobe Max, Michael Ninness suggests using Shift Alt Ctrl t for Consolidate all windows to Tabs. Which I have been using for a long time, but saved in a custom workspace. My thoughts were that if I ever need to use Free Transform Step & Repeat, I'd simply go to another workspace, and there it would be. It doesn't work like that.
I tried other workspaces, and tried checking 'Use Legacy Channel shortcuts', but Step & Repeat was not working for me. So I went into Edit > Keyboard shortcuts > Edit > Transform, and 'Transform Again to new layer' is not listed. In fact a quick Google tells me that it is a 'hidden' shortcut.
I was able to get it back by resetting Preferences, and Step and repeat worked fine in the Essentials Workspace. But here's the thing — and it is a killer PITA — if I switch to my custom workspace that has Shift Ctrl Alt t set to Consolidate all windows to Tabs, even if I don’t use that shortcut, when I go back to any other workspace, Shift Ctrl Alt t is still set to Consolidate all windows to Tabs, and I am completely unable to use FT Step & Repeat.
At the moment, I can’t think of any solution other than a) resetting preferences whenever I want to use Step & Repeat, or b) not using the Michael Ninness shortcuts. Anyone got any thoughts? I’ll try emailing Michael, but the last time I did that, I got no reply.
