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Using double curly braces are acceptable when it's working, but it might be failed with pasted format texts. Which would lead to an unacceptable operations.

1. Remove { Unknown macro: \{ and }

   }

1. Select text
2. Choose monospace format.

These operations are annoying when curly braces failed and it failed A LOT....

A hot key combination would solve this issue. I would trade this feature with an existing hot key or make it configurable.

Here plus agree with the suggestion for shortcuts for monospace, subscript, superscript, etc.

I have heavy documentation work with code examples and need shortcut for monospace. 

Mouse click on the menu requires many actions including moving mouse pointer to menu, scroll down, clicking and return to editing postion in the page.

TamperMonkey based solution does not work for my confluence server 7.0.1.

I heavily agree with the suggestion for having shortcuts also for monospace, subscript, ..

And thanks for the 'solution' by use of GreaseMonkey above – something sems to be changed in the meanwhile within Confluence, so it worked for me only after reloading the edited page. The following variant solved this problem (but it's just a hack, as now it is called more often than needed):

// ==UserScript==
// @name Monospace Keyboard Shortcut for Confluence
// @version 0.3
// @grant none
// @include */editpage.action?*
// @include */createpage.action?*
// @run-at document-idle
// @description Adds keyboard shortcuts for formatting, Ctrl+Alt+m - monospace, Ctrl+Alt+j - superscript, Ctrl+Alt+k - subscript
// ==/UserScript==
document.addEventListener('DOMNodeInserted', function() { 
  if (tinyMCE) {
   if (tinyMCE.activeEditor) {
     console.log("Monospace patch loading");
       tinyMCE.activeEditor.addShortcut("ctrl+alt+m","monospace","confMonospace");
       tinyMCE.activeEditor.addShortcut("ctrl+alt+j","superscript","Superscript");
       tinyMCE.activeEditor.addShortcut("ctrl+alt+k","subscript","Subscript");

   } 
  }
}, false);

 (Yet added two hacks for superscript and subscript as a sample, as it needed me a while to figure out the right names, maybe it helps someone – don't ask me regarding the crude shortcuts, just not yet tested which better ones wouldn't be conflicting with Confluence)

@WH, I'm finding this no longer works in Confluence v6.3.3. Do you or anyone else have a workaround? It's really unfortunate, as I used this shortcut many many times daily.

Update: I ended up disabling TamperMonkey scripts and just creating a Keyboard Maestro macro for this. KM is the answer for everything. On Ctrl-Alt-M, it cuts, types { {, pauses 0.1 sec, types cut text, pauses again, types } }. Works like a charm.

@WH: Is there a chance to get this script working even for taking comments?

@WH: Works great! Thank you so much!

Hi,
thx for the GM hint! +1! Iam not the GreaseMonkey expert but I had to tweak it like this to make it work:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Monospace Keyboard Shortcut for Confluence
// @version 0.2
// @grant       none
// @include */editpage.action?*
// @include */createpage.action?*
// @run-at document-idle
// @description Adds a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+M) for monospace formatting
// ==/UserScript==

if (tinyMCE) {
  if (tinyMCE.activeEditor)  {
    console.log("Monospace patch loading");
    tinyMCE.activeEditor.addShortcut("ctrl+alt+m","monospace","confMonospace");
  }
}

Agree totally. Anything in Confluence should have a keyboard shortcut (or at least make one assignable easily).

For those of us who use monospace (and other) formatting frequently, this is a huge waste of time.

Thanks to John for the great user scripts that can help bridge the gap until Confluence has this feature! Thanks to Dmitry for providing the text we can also use while editing to accomplish this.

PS I apologze, I didn't look at the date of the blog post Apparently this has been there forever, I just never knew about it.