NewDeal Technical Support Document 261
SHORTCUT KEYS, QUICK NAVIGATION
Quick Navigation in NewDeal
software
Introduction
A shortcut key is a single keystroke you can
use to select a menu choice. Using the shortcut key has the same effect
as pulling down a menu and selecting an item. In NewDeal software there
are several keyboard alternatives to using a mouse.
Mnemonics
At times it may be easier and quicker to use the keyboard rather than
the mouse. Mnemonics are single letters or numbers used to make menu
choices. The mnemonics in NewDeal menus are the underlined letters. To
navigate through menus using mnemonics, first press the ALT key to
activate the menu bar, and then use the arrow keys and the underlined
characters.
Global shortcuts
Some shortcuts are universal in all NewDeal applications, such as
pressing F3 to exit the application or Ctrl + S to Save a document. Here
is a list of global keyboard control keys and other shortcuts available
throughout NewDeal software:
File Management
- Ctrl + P - Print
- Ctrl + S - Save
- F3 - Exit application
- Ctrl + Click on Left Mouse Button
- Select multiple items at once
Selecting text
- 2 mouse clicks - Select a word, but not the space after
it
- 3 mouse clicks - Select a line
- 4 mouse clicks - Select a paragraph
- 5 mouse clicks - Select the entire document
- Shift + click - Select from insertion
point to mouse pointer
- Ctrl + / - Select the entire document
- Shift + Home - Select from insertion point to beginning of the
line
- Ctrl + Shift + Home - Select from the insertion point to the
beginning of document
- Shift + End - Select from the insertion point to the end of
the line
- Ctrl +Shift + End - Select from the insertion point to the end
of the document
- Shift + Left or Right Arrow
- Select from the insertion point to the nearest beginning or ending of
a word
- Shift + Up or Down Arrow
- Select from the insertion point one line in the direction of arrow
- Ctrl + Shift + Up or Down Arrow
- Select to beginning or end of the current paragraph
- Ctrl+/ (Forward Slash) - Select all
Deleting text
- Ctrl + Backspace - Delete from the insertion
point to the beginning of a word
- Ctrl + Delete - Delete from the insertion
point to the end of the line
- Shift + Ctrl + Backspace - Delete from
the insertion point to the beginning of the line
- Shift + Ctrl + Delete - Delete from
the insertion point to the end of the line
Moving the insertion point
- Home - Move the insertion point to the
beginning of the current line
- Ctrl + Home - Move the insertion point
to the beginning of the document
- End - Move the insertion point to the
end of the current line
- Ctrl + End - Move the insertion point
to the end of the document
- Arrow Keys
- Move the insertion point one character or line in the direction of the
arrow
- Ctrl + Arrow keys
- Move the insertion point to the next beginning or end of a word in the
direction of the arrow
Screen movement
- Page Up - Go up one screen
- Page Down - Go down one screen
- Ctrl + Page Up - Go right one screen
- Ctrl + Page Down - Go left one screen
Edit commands
- Delete - Delete a character to the right
- Backspace - Delete a character to the
left
- Alt + Backspace - Undo
- Shift + Del - Cut
- Ctrl + Ins - Copy
- Shift + Ins - Paste
- Del - Delete
- Ctrl + F - Find and replace
- F7 - Check spelling
- F5 - Redraw
Note: If you change the edit keys for Cut, Copy,
and Paste in Preferences, Configure UI, then
- Ctrl + x - Cut
- Ctrl + c - Copy
- Ctrl + v - Paste
Font and styles
- Ctrl + 9 - Make font smaller
- Ctrl + 0 - Make font larger
- Shift + Ctrl +Z - Plain text
- Ctrl + B - Bold text
- Ctrl + I - Italic text
- Ctrl + U - Underline text
- Ctrl + L - Left justification
- Ctrl + E - Center justification
- Ctrl + R - Right justification
- Ctrl + J - Full justification
Window management
- Ctrl + F5 - Overlapping windows
- Ctrl + F10 - Fullsized windows
- Shift + F4 - Tile windows
Menus
- Alt - Access the menus
- Left Arrow or Right Arrow - Move across
the menu bar
- Down Arrow or Up Arrow - Scroll up and
down a menu
- Spacebar or Enter - Choose a menu item
- Esc - Close the menu without making a choice
Desktop (NewDesk)
- Tab or Arrow keys
- Toggles the selected icon
- Shift + Tab - Toggles the selected icon
in reverse order
- Enter or Spacebar - Runs the selected
icon
- Ctrl + a - Select all
- Ctrl + / (forward slash) - Select all
- Ctrl + g Get info for the selected item
- Ctrl + P - Print the selected document
- Ctrl + Esc - Open the Express menu
- Shift + A or B or C
- Selects the disk drive A: or B: or C:
- Shift + Esc - Open the window control menu
- Alt + F4 - Close a window
- Alt + Esc - Toggle the active window
- F3 - Exit
NewManager
- Tab or Arrow keys
- Toggles the selected icon
- Shift + Tab - Toggles the selected icon
in reverse order
- Enter or Spacebar - Runs the selected
icon
- Ctrl + W - Selects the World directory
- Ctrl + D - Selects the Document directory
- Shift + A or B or C
- Selects the disk drive A: or B: or C:
- Ctrl + U - Backs up to the directory
prior to the one on the screen
- Ctrl + Esc - Open the Express menu
- Shift + Esc - Open the window control menu
- Alt + F4 - Close a window
- F3 - Exits the current application
NewPlanner
- Ctrl + T - Today's events
- Ctrl + W - Events this week
- Ctrl + D - Events this weekend
- Ctrl + M - Events this month
- Ctrl + Q - Events this quarter
- Ctrl + Y - Events this year
- Ctrl + G - Go to date
- Ctrl + B - Go back
- Ctrl + N - New event
- Ctrl + A - Alarm settings
- Ctrl + L - Calendar
- Ctrl + E - Events
Application windows
- Alt + F10 - Maximize an application window
- Ctrl +F10 - Maximize a document window
- Alt +F9 - Minimize an application window,
shrinking it to an icon
- Alt + F5 - Restore an application window
- Ctrl + F5 - Restore a document window
- Alt + F8 - Resize an application window
(use the Arrow keys)
- Ctrl + F8 - Resize a document window
- Ctrl + Enter - Insert hard page break
NewDraw or the Draw layer
- - (hyphen) - Zoom out
- + - Zoom in
- b - Send to back
- Shift + b - Push selected item back one layer
- f - Bring to front
- Shift + f - Bring selected item forward one layer
- d - Duplicate
- p - Duplicate in place
- g - Group selected items
- u - Ungroup selected item
- h - Center horizontally
- v - Center vertically
- l - Flip left to right
- t - Flip top to bottom
- [ - Rotate counterclockwise by 15 degrees
- ] - Rotate clockwise by 15 degrees
- Shift + [ - Rotate counterclockwise by one degree
- Shift + ] - Rotate clockwise by one degree
- Right Arrow - Move 10 pixels right
- Left Arrow - Move 10 pixels left
- Shift + Right Arrow - Move one pixel right (nudge)
- Shift + Left Arrow - Move one pixel left (nudge)
- Ctrl + Right Arrow - Align to right
- Ctrl + Left Arrow - Align to left
- Ctrl + Up Arrow - Align to top
- Ctrl + Down Arrow - Align to bottom
- x or . (period) - Turns snapping to grid
on or off for the next create, move, or resize operation only
- c or , (comma) - Hold down while you
draw or resize an object and the object expands or contracts around its
center point
- Shift - Hold down while drawing, moving
or resizing, or rotating an object and NewDraw constrains the operation:
- Shift + Draw an ellipse - You get a perfect circle
- Shift + Draw a square - You get a perfect square
- Shift + Draw a straight line - The line
is constrained to horizontal, vertical, or 45 degrees
- Shift +Draw a freehand line - Constrains
the line to horizontal or vertical
- Shift while Resizing an object - The
object's horizontal and vertical measurements maintain proportion
- Shift while Moving any object - You can
only move the object horizontally or vertically
- Shift while Rotating an object - It rotates
in 45 degrees increments relative to the original angle
NewCalc
- Ctrl + Spacebar - Put the focus in the Edit bar
- Ctrl + 1 - Narrower cells
- Ctrl + 2 - Wider cells
- Shift + Ctrl + R - Fill cells to the right
- Shift + Ctrl + D - Fill cells down
- Ctrl + D - Duplicate graphics
- Enter - Enters data and moves down one cell
- Shift + Enter - Enters data and moves up one cell
- Tab - Enters data and moves right one cell
- Shift + Tab - Enters data and moves left one cell
- Left and Right Arrow keys - If the insertion
point is at the beginning (for left arrow) or the end (for right arrow)
of the Edit Bar, enters data and moves one cell in the direction of the
arrow
- Up and Down arrow - Enters data and moves
one cell in the direction of the arrow
- Ctrl + Enter - Keeps the highlighting
in the current cell, the active cell does not change
- PageUp - Move one screen up
- PageDown - Move one screen down
- Ctrl + PageUp - Move one screen right
- Ctrl + PageDown - Move one screen left
- Ctrl + Shift + / - Selects a range including
every cell that has an entry in it
- Arrow keys - Select next cell in direction of arrow
- Home - Selects first cell in the current row
- Ctrl + Home - Selects the first cell in spreadsheet
- End - Selects last filled cell in a row
- Ctrl + End - Selects last filled cell in the spreadsheet
- Ctrl + Right Arrow - Selects the next filled cell to the right
in current row or if no more filled cells to the right, the last unfilled
cell in the row
- Ctrl + Left Arrow - Selects the next filled cell to the left in
current row or if no more filled cells to the left, the last unfilled cell
in the row
- Ctrl + Up Arrow - Selects the next filled cell above the active
cell in the current column or, if there are no more filled cells above the
active cell, the first unfilled cell in the column
- Ctrl + Down Arrow - The next filled cell below the active cell
in the current column or, if there are no more filled cells above the
active cell, the last unfilled cell in the column
- / or Ctrl + Alt + / - Special division symbol
NewFile
- Ctrl + Alt + = - Nonequivalence operator ( <> )
- Ctrl + Alt + + (type a + ) - Greater than or equal to
operator
- Ctrl + Alt + > - Less than or equal to operator
- Ctrl + Left Mouse Button - Selects multiple objects at one
time
- Ctrl + , - Previous record
- Ctrl + . - Next record
- Ctrl + Left Arrow - First record
- Ctrl + Right Arrow - Last record
- Ctrl + ; - Mark/unmark record
- Ctrl + i. - Commit (insert) record into database
- Tab/Enter - Next field
- Shift + Tab or Shift + Enter - Previous field
- Ctrl + n - Create a new record
- Ctrl + Shift + Tab - Place a tab in a field
- Ctrl + Shift + Enter - Place a carriage return in a field
- Ctrl + d - Enter design mode
- Ctrl + c - Enter dataentry mode
- Ctrl + r - Enter singleentry mode
- Ctrl + m - Enter multirecord mode
Special Characters
There are other shortcut keys in NewDeal software, such as those which
will create special characters, using a combination of keystrokes, such as
the bullet (Ctrl+Alt+8) or the em dash (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+hyphen). See your
manual for more information.
If you don't have a mouse
In Preferences, select Arrow Key Mouse. This selection will transform
your screen display to show most of the shortcuts explained in this
document.
Last Modified 17 Feb 1999