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Keyboard Shortcuts
The following tables list keyboard shortcuts for common tasks:
Table 7. Editing Functions
To:
Press:
Copy highlighted region to buffer (replacing buffer contents)
CTRL+C
Cut highlighted region to buffer (replacing buffer contents)
CTRL+X
Cut and append highlighted region to buffer contents
CTRL+F3
Insert appended buffer contents.
CTRL+SHIFT+F3
Paste buffer contents
CTRL+V
Undo
CTRL+Z
Redo
CTRL+Y
Repeat last command
CTRL+Y
Delete next word
CTRL+DELETE
Delete previous word
CTRL+BACKSPACE
Delete to end of line
ALT+DELETE
Select entire document
CTRL+A
Select the sentence under the pointer
Hold down the CTRL button and click the left mouse button.
Select the paragraph under the pointer
Triple-click the left mouse button.
Collapse or expand element content
Hold down the ALT key and click the left mouse button
Collapse or expand division
Hold down the CTRL key and click the middle mouse button
Extend selection
F8
Shrink selection
SHIFT+F8
Toggle change tracking on and off
CTRL+SHIFT+E
Cycle through 3 case styles for the word containing the cursor. Cycle through 4 case styles for a selected sentence.
SHIFT+F3
Transpose the two characters around the cursor
CTRL+T
Transpose preceding two words
CTRL+SHIFT+T
Check spelling
F7
Thesaurus
SHIFT+ F7
 
Table 8. Opening, Saving, and Exiting Documents
To:
Press:
Open a new document based on the existing one
CTRL+N
Open an existing document
CTRL+O
Save your document
CTRL+S
Save all open documents
CTRL+SHIFT+S
Close a document
CTRL+W
Print a document
CTRL+P
Save a document with a different name
F12
 
Table 9. Finding Text and Tags
To:
Press:
Open Find/Replace dialog box
CTRL+F
Find again
CTRL+SHIFT+F
Find selection forward
ALT+SHIFT+F
Go to Quickmark
CTRL+Q
Insert Quickmark
CTRL+SHIFT+Q
Open Go To dialog box
CTRL+G
Open Bookmarks dialog box
CTRL+SHIFT+F5
Find element start tag
ALT+LEFT ARROW
Find element end tag
ALT+RIGHT ARROW
 
Table 10. Using Markup
To:
With cursor between or to right of icon, press:
Split division
CTRL+J
Join division
CTRL+SHIFT+J
Open Insert Markup toolbar list box
CTRL+M
Open Insert Markup dialog box
CTRL+SHIFT+M
Delete markup
CTRL+SHIFT+X
Open Modify Attributes dialog box
CTRL+D
Quick tags menu (Quick tags must be enabled)
ENTER
 
Table 11. Window Navigation and Control
To move cursor:
Press:
One word right
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
One word left
CTRL+LEFT ARROW
To end of line
End
To beginning of line
Home
To end of element
ALT+RIGHT ARROW
To start of element
ALT +LEFT ARROW
Down one paragraph
CTRL+DOWN ARROW
Up one paragraph
CTRL+UP ARROW
Down one screen
Page Down
Up one screen
Page Up
To end of document
CTRL+End
To beginning of document
CTRL+HOME
Forward past next element start or end tag
TAB
Backward past next element start or end tag
SHIFT+TAB
To beginning of window
CTRL+Page Up
To end of window
CTRL+Page Down
To next document window
CTRL+F6
To previous document window
CTRL+SHIFT+F6
To next window (any window that appears on the Windows taskbar)
ALT+F6
To previous window (any window that appears on the Windows taskbar)
ALT+SHIFT+F6
View Controls
Press:
Cycles the focus counterclockwise through the Edit window, Document Map window, and Arbortext Editor command line
F6
View document map
ALT+CTRL +O
View normal
ALT+CTRL +N
Refresh screen
CTRL+L
Cycle through markup icon displays of full, partial, and none
CTRL+SHIFT+L
Show or update generated text
CTRL+ALT+G
Increase font magnification
CTRL+>
Decrease font magnification
CTRL+<
Resize window
CTRL+F8
 
Table 12. Table Editing
To:
Press:
Select cell
ALT+F9
Select table
ALT+5
Select row
ALT+SHIFT+F9
Select column
ALT+CTRL+F9
Insert a table
ALT+SHIFT+T
Insert a row below cursor
SHIFT+F9
Insert a row above cursor
F9
Insert a column right of cursor
CTRL+SHIFT+F9
Insert a column left of cursor
CTRL+F9
Span selected cells
ALT+F11
Unspan selected cells
ALT+SHIFT+F11
Delete row containing cursor
F11
Delete column containing cursor
CTRL+F11
 
Table 13. Accent Marks and Symbols
To Insert the Symbol or Accent:
Press:
Example:
acute
ALT+'
é
bar under
ALT+_
breve
ALT+[
ă
caron
ALT+<
ž
cedilla
ALT+;
ç
circumflex
ALT+^
ŝ
dot over
ALT+.
ġ
dot under
ALT+,
grave
ALT+`
è
double acute
ALT+#
ő
macron
ALT+-
ē
ring
ALT+@
å
tilde
ALT+~
ũ
umlaut
ALT+“
ä
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These keystrokes map to the insert_accent command.
The DTD for the document must define the appropriate accent entity for these keystrokes to have an effect. For example, pressing ALT+, will only work if the DTD defines a character entity called dotbelow.
 
Table 14. Entities
To:
Press:
Open Insert Symbol toolbar list
CTRL+R
Open Insert Symbol window
CTRL+SHIFT+R
Open Insert Text Entity toolbar list
CTRL+ALT+V
 
Table 15. Text Breaks
To:
Press:
Insert an en dash (ndash) entity
CTRL+-
Insert an em dash (mdash) entity
CTRL+SHIFT+-
Insert a non-breakable space (nbsp) entity
CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE
Insert a newline processing instruction
SHIFT+ENTER
Insert a newpage processing instruction
CTRL+ENTER
Insert a column break processing instruction
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER