Today, we continue our discussion of Services and keeping with our recent theme of Menu shortcuts. A few posts ago, we discussed how much time you can save by add keyboard shortcuts to your menu items. Good news – you can also add them to your Services! In fact, all of the services that I use regularly have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.

Quick Guide: Assign Keyboard Shortcuts to Services

1. Select  > System Preferences from the menu.
2. Click the Keyboard icon.
3. Click the Shortcuts tab on top of the dialog box.
4. Click Services in the left pane. Don’t be alarmed if the Spinning Beach Ball appears for a few moments. It takes a bit of time to load all the services.
   
5. Click the Service in the right pane to which you want to assign a shortcut.
6. Click add shortcut in the second column of the right pane.
   
7. Tap out the keyboard shortcut for the Service.

That’s it! Now whenever you’re in an application relevant to the Service, just tap the keyboard shortcut to execute that Service.

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