Accessing toolbar commands
Press F6 repeatedly until the first icon on the toolbar is selected. Use the right and left arrows to
select an icon on a horizontal toolbar. Similarly, use the up and down arrows to select an icon on a
vertical toolbar. The Home key selects the first icon on a toolbar and the End key, the last.
Press Enter to activate the selected icon. If the selected icon normally requires a consecutive
mouse action, such as inserting a rectangle, then pressing the Enter key is not sufficient; in these
cases, press Ctrl+Enter.
• Press Ctrl+Enter on an icon to create a draw object. The draw object will be placed into the
middle of the view, with a predefined size.
• Press Ctrl+Enter on the Selection tool to select the first draw object in the document. If you
want to edit, size, or move the selected draw object, first use Ctrl+F6 to move the focus into
the document.
Navigating and selecting with the keyboard
You can navigate through a document and make selections with the keyboard.
• To move the cursor, press the key or key combination given in the following table.
• To select the characters under the moving cursor, additionally hold down the Shift key when
you move the cursor.
Key Function Plus Ctrl key
Right, left arrow
keys
Moves the cursor one character to
the left or to the right.
Moves the cursor one word to the left
or to the right.
Up, down arrow
keys
Moves the cursor up or down one
line.
(Ctrl+Alt) Moves the current
paragraph up or down.
Home Moves the cursor to the beginning of
the current line.
Moves the cursor to the beginning of
the document.
End Moves the cursor to the end of the
current line.
Moves the cursor to the end of the
document.
PgUp Scrolls up one page. Moves the cursor to the header.
PgDn Scroll down one page. Moves the cursor to the footer.
Controlling dialogs
When you open any dialog, one element (such as a button, an option field, an entry in a list box, or
a checkbox) is highlighted or indicated by a dotted box around the field or button name. This
element is said to have the focus on it.
Shortcut Keys Result
Enter Activates selected button. In most cases where no button is
selected, Enter is equivalent to clicking OK.
Esc
Closes dialog without saving any changes made while it was open.
In most cases, Esc is equivalent to clicking Cancel. When an open
drop-down list is selected, Esc closes the list.
Spacebar Checks an empty checkbox. Clears a checked checkbox.
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