Is there a way to inherit my Xara3.x settings and shortcut keys

[jclements]

I don't recall seeing anything whether or not Xara 4 can inherit Xara3.x's default settings and shortcut keys when installing Xara 4.

Does anyone know for sure?

Charles, if you are by chance "lurking" can you elaborate?

Regards, John

[steve.ledger]

Not that I'm aware of. Previously even same version updates didn't do this.

However there have been changes to version 4 to allow saving and reloading of various shortcut key sets.

From the Help file:


Integrated key short-cut utility

This utility provides an easy and direct way to configure key short cuts. It allows you to define a short-cut for a command which doesn't have a short-cut by default, or to change a command's short-cut.
Use the Save button to save the current short-cut definitions as a ".ini" file, without necessarily applying them so they are used by Xara Xtreme Pro 4 you to setup different sets of short-cut assignments and allows you to share the assignments between different computers or different users. For example you could setup short-cut assignments that make Xtreme Pro compatible with the short-cuts of another application and save them in a .ini file so you can share them

[handrawn]

its a lot easier to use too

[jclements]

I was surprised to see that one verison saved the keys in an .INI file while the other as a .DAT file.