Appendix > Appendix 2: Keyboard Shortcuts

In order to understand the keyboard shortcuts, you must first be familiar with the terms in use:

•	Element: An XML element and its content, both text and other elements.

•	Current element: The element that is highlighted or which contains the cursor.

•	Textual content: The text that is the content of an element. Textual content may itself contain elements.

•	Child: An element that forms part or all of the current element's content. An element may have any number of children.

•	Descendent: An element that is the current element's child, the child of a child, etc.

•	Parent: The element of which the current element is a child. An element must have exactly one parent.

•	Sibling: An element that shares the same parent as the current element. An element can have any number of siblings.

•	Preceding Sibling: The sibling that is located immediately before the current element.

•	Following Sibling: The sibling that is located immediately after the current element.

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Entry Editor

Shortcuts for Manipulating Data Content

These shortcuts apply when editing textual content in either the WYSIWYG panel or the Tree Panel.

Shortcut	Function	Other Access Methods
Ctrl + C	Copy	Menu option EDIT/COPY
Ctrl + X	Cut	Menu option EDIT/CUT
Ctrl + V	Paste	Menu option EDIT/PASTE
Ctrl + Z	Undo changes made to the current element's data	Menu option EDIT/UNDO
Delete	Delete the selected text or, if no text is selected, the character in front of the cursor
Backspace	Delete the selected text or, if no text is selected, the character behind of the cursor
Right Arrow	Move the cursor forward one letter. If the cursor is at the end of an element's textual content, it moves to the next element with textual content.
Left Arrow	Move the cursor backward one letter. If the cursor is at the beginning of an element's textual content, it moves to the previous element with textual content.
Ctrl + Right Arrow	Move the cursor forward one word
Ctrl + Left Arrow	Move the cursor backward one word
Shift + Right Arrow	Select the next letter
Shift + Left Arrow	Select the previous letter
Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow	Select the next word
Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow	Select the previous word
Ctrl + F	Opens the Search and Replace popup dialog
Ctrl + U	Opens the textual content of the current element in a popup editing window - used when using IME or similar. See here.

Shortcuts for Manipulating XML Elements

These shortcuts apply only in the Tree Panel. Those that move, cut, copy, etc., elements only work if the whole element is highlighted (clicked with the mouse). Unless stated otherwise all these operations operate on the current element and all its descendants; for example, if the current element is said to be 'copied', all its descendants are copied as well.

Shortcut	Function	Other Access Methods
Tab	Move to the next element (sibling or child), including those embedded in textual data
Shift + Tab	Move to the previous element (sibling or parent), including those embedded in textual data
Down Arrow	Move to the next element (sibling or child), ignoring those embedded in textual data
Up Arrow	Move to the previous element (sibling or child), ignoring those embedded in textual data
Ctrl + Up Arrow	Swap the positions of the current element and its preceding sibling	Up arrow button
Ctrl + Down Arrow	Swap the positions of the current element and its following sibling	Down arrow button
Ctrl + Left Arrow	Move the element up one level in the element hierarchy; it becomes the following sibling of the element that was its parent	Left arrow button
Ctrl + Right Arrow	Move the element down one level in the element hierarchy; it becomes the last child of the element that was its preceding sibling	Right arrow button
F9	Collapse/Expand the current element
Ctrl + Z	Undo the last operation. A second ctrl + Z undoes the operation before that, and so on.
F11	Change tag
F5	Refresh the display
Ctrl + X	Cut the current element to the clipboard
Ctrl + C	Copy the current element to the clipboard
Ctrl + Shift + C	Copy the current element to the clipboard without attributes
Ctrl + Y	Paste the element on the clipboard before the current element; it becomes the current element's preceding sibling
Ctrl + W	Paste the element on the clipboard after the current element; it becomes the current element's following sibling
Ctrl + V	Paste the element on the clipboard inside the current element; it becomes the current element's last child
Ctrl + Shift + V	When pasting textual data from an external document, divide it into segments at carriage returns and paste each segment into a clone of the current element
Ctrl + D	To copy and insert the current element (and its descendants) without textual content. The new element becomes the following sibling of the current element. The highlight is then moved to the new element, which then becomes the current element
Ctrl + Shift + D	As Ctrl + D, but without attributes
CTRL+G	To copy and insert tag content with attributes
CTRL+Shift+G	To copy and insert tag content without attributes
Ctrl + Enter	Split the current element, at the cursor location, into two sibling elements
Ctrl + Del	Delete the current element
Alt + Del	Delete the current element, but not its children. Its children become children of the deleted element's parent.
	Delete the current element, but not its children. Its children are merged with those of the deleted element's following sibling (they become its first children).	Right-click 'Merge Right' option
	Delete the current element, but not its children. Its children are merged with those of the deleted element's preceding sibling (they become its last children).	Right-click 'Merge Left' option

Other Useful Shortcuts

Shortcut

Function

Other Access Methods

Ctrl +PageUp

Make the next entry in navigation panel the current entry.

Double-click the next entry in the navigation panel

Ctrl +PageDn

Make the previous entry in navigation panel the current entry.

Double-click the previous entry in the navigation panel

Ctrl + P

Print the current entry in either WYSIWYG or Tree format, depending which panel is the cursor is in.

Print Button

Ctrl + S

Save the current entry

Save Button

Report DTD errors

Menu option TOOLS/Report DTD errors

Toggle between displaying and hiding validation errors

Menu option TOOLS/Highlight DTD errors

Toggle between a hierarchical and inline display of the current element's children

Right-click 'Swap Inline State' option

Ctrl + +/- (Number keyboard)

•	Ctrl + mouse wheel and Preferences

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Template Picker

Shortcut	Function
Ctrl + E	Open the template picker at the current cursor location with the Entry insertion location selected
Ctrl + I	Open the template picker at the current cursor location with the Indented insertion location selected
Ctrl + B	Open the template picker at the current cursor location with the Before insertion location selected
Ctrl + A	Open the template picker at the current cursor location with the After insertion location selected
Ctrl + L	Open the template picker at the current cursor location with the All insertion location selected
Esc	Close the template picker

Keyboard Shortcut for the attribute editor

Shortcut	Function
Ctrl + H	Open the attribute editor for the current element and position cursor at first attribute.