# Action Keyboard Commands
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-keyboard-commands/12781
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 5, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-keyboard-commands/12781 "2011-12-05T17:52:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@drmusic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drmusic)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-keyboard-commands/12781/1 "2011-12-05T17:52:32Z")
Hi!
I have a couple of actions I created that I use on almost every album I tag...Add Album Cover, Make Title Titlecase and Copy Album Year To Album Sort Field.
Is there a way you could make it so we can assign custom keyboard commands to our favorite actions?
I know hitting Alt-5 brings up the Action dialog box, but I would love to be able to hit Alt-8 or something to automatically trigger one of my favorite actions.
Please forgive me if this functionality is already there and I don't see it!
Thanks! MP3Tag is the best and I use it every day!
Scott
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-keyboard-commands/12781/2 "2011-12-05T18:45:50Z")
It is already there.
Use the characters "&" and "#" for your actionnames to get custom keyboard commands and press Alt+A instead of Alt+5 ot trigger them.
**Alt+A** :
opens the action drop down menu in the menu bar.
**&** :
Put this into the action name in front of the character you want to use as a keyboard command for the action. e.g.:
Split &Title into Artist and Title
This action would be triggered by pressing Alt+A and than T
**#** :
Put this into the action names to create submenus (only one level deep) in the action drop down menu. e.g.:
&Split# &Title into Artist and Title
&Split# &Album into Albumartist and Album
These two action would be triggered by pressing Alt+A, S, T (for the first) and Alt+A, S, A (for the second)
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### Author:  [@drmusic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drmusic)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-keyboard-commands/12781/3 "2011-12-05T18:58:00Z")
Thanks!
That is pretty close to what I was looking for.
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### Author:  [@Zontir](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zontir)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-keyboard-commands/12781/4 "2019-08-05T04:26:58Z")
Hi, I'm trying to recreate this, but pressing Alt + A opens the File menu and not the Actions menu. Any idea why? I've always wanted to create shortcuts for actions and I've never done it.