PLAYING BACK ACTIONS
When it comes to playing back an Action, pressing the Play button in the Actions panel is rather a clunky way to do things, especially as the point with Actions is to speed up your work flow. There are a couple of ways we can speed things up. If you click the flyout menu at the top of the Actions panel and turn on Button mode, then the Actions will be shown as a list of buttons. Simply click on an Action button to play it. Another way to speed things up is to assign keyboard shortcuts to your favourite Actions. You can do this upon first making an Action (in the New Action dialog), or you can add keyboard shortcuts afterwards by double-clicking on the Action in the Actions Panel (whilst not in Button mode) to bring up the Action options.