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Repeating the last Pathfinder operation

Repeating the last Pathfinder operation - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced

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Repeating the last Pathfinder operation

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- In this movie, I'll show you how you can repeat the last apply Pathfinder operation, both using a command and from the keyboard. So for example, let's say I go ahead and marquee these two shapes right here. And then, I go over to the Pathfinder panel, and click on the first icon in the first row in order to unite those shapes. All right, now I want to repeat that Pathfinder operation by marqueeing these two paths let's say, and then I'll go up to the fly out menu icon in the top, right corner of the Pathfinder panel and choose repeat add. In which case I will repeat that last applied operation, but that may make you wonder why in the world such a command exists when it's so much easier to just click on one of these icons right here. And the reason is that gives Adobe an opportunity to assign a keyboard shortcut to that command. And that shortcut is Ctrl+4 here on the PC or Command+4 on the Mac. And so notice if I…

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