InDesign color-related keyboard shortcuts
Most designers know that hitting the X key switches between stroke and fill active states, and the / (slash) key fills the currently selected object with the color None in Adobe InDesign. There are a few other color-related shortcuts that, if you burn into your brain, can save you a good bit of time and mousing around on screen.
- The , (comma) key will fill or stroke an object with whatever the current color is
- The . (period) key will fill or stroke an object with the current gradient
- The D key will fill an object with None and stroke it with black.
- Hitting Shift + X will reverse the fill and stroke colors of the currently selected object. This is by far the most useful shortcut for me, because I’m constantly applying a color to the stroke when I wanted to apply it to fill
