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Keyboard shortcuts - Code Editor
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keyboard shortcuts for creating and opening models
• keyboard shortcuts for changing code using the Code Editor
These shortcuts work when editing code in the Code Editor. This topic includes the following sections:
• Moving the Insertion Point
• Selecting Text
• Deleting Text
• Working with the Clipboard and Undoing Previous Changes
• Finding and Replacing Text
• Additional Shortcuts
Moving the Insertion Point
Press
To Move Cursor
LEFT ARROW
One character to the left
RIGHT ARROW
One character to the right
UP ARROW
One line up
DOWN ARROW
One line down
CTRL+LEFT ARROW
One word to the left
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
One word to the right
HOME
To the beginning of a line
END
To the end of a line
PAGE DOWN
One page down and scroll accordingly
PAGE UP
One page up and scroll accordingly
CTRL+HOME
To the beginning of the text
CTRL+END
To the end of the text
Selecting Text
Press
To extend a selection
SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
One character to the left
SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
One character to the right
SHIFT+UP ARROW
One line up
SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
One line down
SHIFT+HOME
To the beginning a line
SHIFT+END
To the end a line
CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
One word to the left
CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
One word to the right
CTRL+SHIFT+HOME
To the beginning of the text
CTRL+SHIFT+END
To the end of the text
CTRL+A
To all text
Deleting Text
Press
To delete
BACKSPACE
One character to left or selected text
DEL
One character to right or selected text
CTRL+BACKSPACE
To end of word or selected text
CTRL+DEL
To beginning of word or selected text
Working with the Clipboard and Undoing Previous Changes
Press
To
CTRL+C
Copy the selected text
CTRL+V
Paste text
CTRL+X
Cut the selected text
CTRL+INSERT
Copy the selected text
SHIFT+DEL
Cut the selected text
SHIFT+INSERT
Paste text
Finding and Replacing Text
Press
To
F3
Find the next occurrence of the search text
CTRL+F3
Find the next occurrence of the text that is selected
CTRL+F
Open the Find dialog
CTRL+H
Open the Replace dialog
SHIFT+F3
Find the previous occurrence of the search text
Additional Shortcuts
Press
To
F7
Create a model item based on selected text and reference that item as a model object reference
F8
Insert a model object reference
CTRL+S
Save changes
CTRL+U
Make selected text lowercase
CTRL+UP ARROW
Scroll up one line
CTRL+DOWN ARROW
Scroll down one line
CTRL+SPACE
Open Autocomplete menu
CTRL+SHIFT+8
Show or hide whitespaces
CTRL+SHIFT+U
Make selected text uppercase
Overview of the code editor
Tool Options dialogs - code editor
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