Shown above is what you'd typically see when you select one point on a path. In the Object Inspector, you can change the Point Type, or Retract the point's handles.

OOPS! This is what you get when you've selected multiple points on multiple paths. Since each path is at different location (x, y), you can no longer change the points' attributes, even though they are the same kind of point, until FreeHand 9 came along.

There are several new commands you can assign Shortcuts to in FreeHand 9. These commands are located under the Other group as shown above.

In the Points subsection, you can see that you now have complete keyboard control over what a point's attributes are. By default these commands do not have shortcuts applied, but you can fix that instantly. Here is what commands I use, and maybe you'll find them handy as well:

Corner	Option+1
Curve	Option+2
Connector	Option+3
Retract Handles Left	Option+[
Retract Handles Right	Option+]

For the next part of the tip to work, you must assign some shortcuts to these commands, they are not found anywhere else in the menus.

Now that we have some keyboard shortcuts assigned, we can easily select multiple points on multiple paths, then change their attributes in one easy step.

Watch the animation above as I change the Left points to corner points, then retract the points' handles on the Right side, all with those new keyboard shortcuts.
How cool is that?!?