This movie explains it perfectly although for AE 8.0 your preference file is located
/Users/Administrator/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/8.0/Adobe After Effects 8.0 Shortcuts
Address for movie is:
https://images.digitalmedianet.com/2005/Week_51/c36z1bue/story/ae_shortcuts_ko.mov
Now if I could just make a shortcut for “Convert To Editable Text” I would be in heaven. I followed procedure for Collect files but it doesn’t work for this…hmnnn My syntax is probably off..