NewDeal Technical Support Document 261

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

• 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.