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Customizing ChemDraw Hotkeys

ChemDraw's HotKeys can be customized with both atom shortcuts and bond shortcuts.

Presenter: Jesse Gordon
Company: PerkinElmer Informatics
Duration: 5 Min
Issue: 21.3

ChemDraw Hotkeys provide a means to quickly draw chemical structures. The standard set of Hotkeys can be modified to better fit your preferences and your commonly-used chemical groups.

This video demonstrates using and customizing HotKeys:

  • Hover over an atom and type an atom Hotkey (such as "n" for amine)
  • Hover over an atom and type an chemical group Hotkey (such as "e" for ethyl)
  • Hover over a bond and type a bond Hotkey (such as "h" for hash-bond)
  • Observing the default HotKey list in hotkeys.xml
  • Cloning an existing bond Hotkey to create a new customized bond Hotkey
  • Replacing an existing Hotkey with a customized Hotkey
  • Creating your own chemical group for use with Hotkeys
  • How to lookup other customizations in your Online Help
  • How to implement your customization in your copy of ChemDraw


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