If your Adobe Illustrator keyboard shortcuts stop working, don’t panic. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to reset your keyboard to its default settings. Restoring your keyboard to its default settings will restore all of the keyboard shortcuts to their original mappings. However, any custom keyboard shortcuts that you have created will be lost.
Firstly, quit Adobe Illustrator. Then, navigate to the following location on your computer:
• Windows: C:\Users\[your-username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [version]\Settings\
• Mac: /Users/[your-username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator [version]/Settings/
In this folder, you will find a file named “KeyboardPreferences.xml”. Delete this file. When you next launch Adobe Illustrator, the keyboard shortcuts will be reset to their default settings.
If you have made changes to the keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator, you can restore them from a backup file. To do this, navigate to the following location on your computer:
• Windows: C:\Users\[your-username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [version]\Settings\
• Mac: /Users/[your-username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator [version]/Settings/
In this folder, you will find a file named “KeyboardPreferences-backup.xml”. Copy this file and paste it into the following location:
• Windows: C:\Users\[your-username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [version]\Settings\
• Mac: /Users/[your-username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator [version]/Settings/
When you next launch Adobe Illustrator, the keyboard shortcuts will be restored from the backup file.
How To Reset Keyboard With Adobe Illus
If you are experiencing issues with your keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator, you may need to reset them to their default settings. Here are the steps on how to do it:
- Quit Adobe Illustrator.
- Open the Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows) and navigate to the following folder:
- On Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator [version]/
- On Windows: %appdata%\com.adobe.illustrator\
- Find the file named “Adobe Illustrator Prefs” and delete it.
- Restart Adobe Illustrator.
Your keyboard shortcuts should now be reset to their default settings.