How do I remove or replace a Mac keyboard shortcut?

This question refers specifically to Evernote, but the answer is generic & can be used for any Mac app.

In Evernote for Mac 6.13.3 the Preferences | Keyboard Shortcuts tab does not show the shortcut I want to get rid of, which is CMD/T (which opens a new tab in Evernote—but I want it to have its general Mac function of showing fonts).

I therefore have no way of removing the CMD/T from Evernote.

Can anyone help?

1 Answer

So long as both the wanted & the unwanted commands are in the menus, then this is relatively straightforward, just needs a little lateral thinking...

First, you need to remove the unwanted command, by replacing it with 'garbage' - something you don't already use or need...

• System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
• Click + then add the name of your desired app.
• Type the exact name of the menu item you wish to replace^[1]
• Add a garbage command [anything will do, so long as it's not going to conflict anywhere else]

Then, to add your new command

• Select the name of your app in the list & click + [this will populate the app into new command]
• Type the name of your wanted menu item
• Add a key command - you can now use the one you previously overwrote in your unwanted shortcut.

^[1] This is especially important if the menu ends in an ellipsis … which typographically is not the same as three full stops ...

There is no need to specify any menu/sub-menu structure, no matter how far down the hierarchy your menu item may be - it will always find it using just the actual item name.

Late addition: if you have two menu items with the same name but in different sub-menus, you can differentiate by giving the actual menu path using -> as the sub-menu indicator, eg
File->Open->Open Special Name