: Keyboard Shortcut to Change Stroke Weight? Does anyone know if there is either a keyboard shortcut or script available in order increase and decrease stroke width in Illustrator? I would love

@Nimeshi706

I had to make some Actions to do it.

Beforw start recording, fill the path with a pattern. This is important to enable the Transform objects in the Scale panel.

Create I new action.

Select the Stroked object, press S , Enter and change the scale by 90%. Uncheck Transform objects.

This will create an action decreasing the stroke wight.
Unfortunately the path cannot contains a fill pattern or it will increase its size too.

Make another action with 110% do encrease it.

See the image below:
Plus a gif showing the action in action.

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@Pope1402555

The easiest method that exists is to select the stroke, click in the stroke weight field in the control panel or the stroke panel and
hit the arrow key up or down to increase and decrease he weight in small amounts and hit the those keys while holding down the option+shift (Mac) or alt+shift keys (PC) for greater increments.

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@Nimeshi706

Such a shortcut does not exist. Scripting maybe, but probably more trouble than it's worth.

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