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3 Type the message you want to appear.
4 If you want the option to continue the action without stopping, select Allow Continue.
5 Click OK.
Setting modal controls and excluding commands
After recording an action, you can insert a modal control. This lets you pause a command
to display its dialog box and specify different values, and to manipulate a modal tool to
apply new settings. (A modal tool requires pressing Enter or Return to apply its effect.)
to display its dialog box and specify different values, and to manipulate a modal tool to
apply new settings. (A modal tool requires pressing Enter or Return to apply its effect.)
If you do not use a modal control, Illustrator runs the command using the values specified
when you first recorded the action (and the dialog box does not appear).
when you first recorded the action (and the dialog box does not appear).
You can also exclude commands that you don’t want to include as part of a recorded
action or that you don’t want to play when running the action.
action or that you don’t want to play when running the action.
To set a modal control:
1 Make sure that the Actions palette is in list view. (If necessary, deselect Button Mode in
the Actions palette menu.)
the Actions palette menu.)
2 Do one of the following:
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Click the column to the left of the command name to display the dialog box icon. Click
again to remove the modal control.
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To turn on or disable modal controls for all commands in an action or set, click the
column to the left of the action or set name.
To exclude or include a command:
Do one of the following:
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Click to clear the check mark to the left of the command name. Click again to include
the command.
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To exclude or include all commands in an action or set, click the check box to the left of
the action or set name.
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To exclude or include all commands except the selected command, Alt-click (Windows)
or Option-click (Mac OS) the command.
Playing actions
When you play an action, Illustrator executes the series of commands as you recorded
them. But you can begin with any command, exclude commands, or play a single
command in an action. If you have inserted a modal control in your action, you can specify
values in a dialog box or reapply a modal tool (any tool that requires you to press Enter or
Return to apply it) when the action pauses. (See
them. But you can begin with any command, exclude commands, or play a single
command in an action. If you have inserted a modal control in your action, you can specify
values in a dialog box or reapply a modal tool (any tool that requires you to press Enter or
Return to apply it) when the action pauses. (See
.)
In button view, clicking a button executes the entire action—though commands previ-
ously excluded are not executed.
ously excluded are not executed.
To play an action or set on a single file:
1 Open the file.