• Adobe After Effects

  From text tool to selection tool, hotkey?

  Posted by Kristian Engelsen on March 31, 2010 at 10:41 am

  Hey

  What is they hotkey on mac to go form text tool to selection tool on mac in after effects? Frustrated!

  Kristian Engelsen replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
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  Bartek Skorupa

  March 31, 2010 at 4:04 pm

  Hit ENTER on Num Pad. This closes editing of the text. Then hit V.

  Bartek Skorupa
  Warszawa, Poland
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  Kristian Engelsen

  March 31, 2010 at 4:07 pm

  Hey, thanks for answering, I’m on a Macbook Pro and as far as I know, I don’t have the numb pad on my mac;(
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  Todd Kopriva

  March 31, 2010 at 5:49 pm

  from After Effects Help:
  “To end text-editing mode, press Enter on the numeric keypad, select another tool, or press Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Command+Return (Mac OS).”

  And here’s the list of keyboard shortcuts.

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  Kristian Engelsen

  March 31, 2010 at 6:33 pm

  Thanks! But I don’t have the Numeric Keypad because I’m not mackbook pro, so I cant use the num pad enter
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  Todd Kopriva

  March 31, 2010 at 6:53 pm

  My answer gave three options, only one of which requires the numeric keypad.

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  Kristian Engelsen

  March 31, 2010 at 7:38 pm

  And they didn’t work. I wont to go from text tool to selection tool by just using hotkeys;) I’ve seen people doing it, but not on mac
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  Bartek Skorupa

  March 31, 2010 at 8:54 pm

  Maybe you have some different kind of Mac. On my Mac everything works.
  Dave’s solution takes half a second.
  If you want to use keyboard shortcuts:
  Cmd-Enter, V
  0.75 sec.
  Writing this post – 12 seconds.

  Bartek Skorupa
  Warszawa, Poland
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  Kristian Engelsen

  March 31, 2010 at 9:48 pm

  Thanks for the help;)

  To the Guru: The two “stinkin” seconds adds up when doing Kentic typography.

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