Shortcut for cycling thru a tool category?

[parkerbrown]

I have some recollection of being able to cycle thru the various sub-tools of a tool (the ones that pop out when you click on the tool palette) by just tapping the shortcut for that too l repeatedly.

This was VERY handy, and saved a lot of time.

For example, hitting "L" would give me the lasso too, hitting "L" again would give the polygonal lasso, and hitting "L" a third time would give me the magnetic lasso. This approach would work for all tool with sub-tools.

Either I imagined this or it is something from earlier version or from Illustrator.

Could someone PLEASE let me know if there is someway of enabling this sort of functionality?

 

[kim00]

Shift and the corresponding letter will achieve that shortcut.

 

[parkerbrown]

Cool, but it would be better to be able to do that without needing to press the Shift button.

I am sure I have done this in the past.

 

[kim00]

And I vanna toilet made of solid gold but it's just not in the cards, now is it?

I totally understand - I'll research keyboard shortcuts - I'll post here but let us know if you come up with anything first.

 

[cebebe]

Hi, simply go to Edit-Preference-Main and uncheck <use shift key for tools switch>
Now you have just to click the letter