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View actions by name only

❖ Choose Button Mode from the Actions palette menu. Choose Button Mode again to return to list mode.

Note: You can’t view individual commands or sets in Button mode.

Select actions in the Actions palette

❖ Click an action name. Shift-click action names to select multiple, contiguous actions, and Ctrl-click (Windows)

or Command-click (Mac OS) action names to select multiple, discontiguous actions.

Play an action on a file

Playing an action executes the action’s recorded commands in the active document. (Some actions require that you

make a selection before playing; some can be executed on an entire file.) You can exclude specific commands from

an action or play only a single command. If the action includes a modal control, you can specify values in a dialog

box or use a modal tool when the action pauses.

Note: In Button mode, clicking a button executes the entire action—although commands previously excluded are not

executed.

1 If necessary, select objects on which to play the action, or open a file.

2 Do one of the following:

• (Illustrator) To play a set of actions, select the set name, and click the Play button in the Actions palette, or

choose Play from the palette menu.

• To play an entire single action, select the action name, and click the Play button in the Actions palette, or choose

Play from the palette menu.

• If you assigned a key combination to the action, press that combination to play the action automatically.

• To play only a part of an action, select the command from which you want to start playing, and click the Play

button in the Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu.

• To play a single command, select the command, and then Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the

Play button in the Actions palette. You can also press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and double-click

the command.

In Photoshop, to undo an action, take a snapshot in the History palette before you play an action, and then select the

snapshot to undo the action.

Record an action

When you create a new action, the commands and tools you use are added to the action until you stop recording.

To guard against mistakes, work in a copy: at the beginning of the action before applying other commands, record

the File > Save A Copy command (Illustrator) or record the File > Save As command and select As A Copy

(Photoshop). Alternatively, in Photoshop you can click the New Snapshot button on the History palette to make a

snapshot of the image before recording the action.

1 Open a file.

2 In the Actions palette, click the Create New Action button , or choose New Action from the Actions palette menu.

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