### Menu shortcuts

Various menu items can be selected by mouse or pre-defined keyboard shortcuts. The menu shortcuts are shown in the relevant menu items and use the OS X shortcut conventions.

At the moment the shortcuts in menu items cannot be changed in iCalamus. But that's why you use a Mac. You can easily change menu shortcuts of iCalamus in the System Preferences of OS X. Here is a description how to add a menu shortcut to File > Export:

1. Open the System Preferences (from the Apple menu).
2. In the System Preferences, choose the Keyboard preferences.
3. Select the Keyboard Shortcuts view and Application Shortcuts.

4. Click on the [+] button below the right section. From the Application menu, choose iCalamus. Then enter the menu entry text External Plug-ins... and press the desired shortcut, e.g. [Shift][Command][M].
   Hint: If a menu entry ends with three dots, don't enter three dots, but use the ellipsis character, which can be entered by pressing [Option][;].

5. Click the [Add] button.
6. Now the list in Keyboard Shortcuts should show an entry for iCalamus as well as the menu item. You can edit both the menu entry text and the shortcut after a double-click on the relevant section of the entry.

Hint: If you assign a keyboard shortcut which has already been used for another menu item in the application, the shortcut will be removed from its old assignment and applied to your new assignment.