See also: Mouse Usage Hints Note: Keyboard Short Cuts are completely customizable and can be exported for use on other machines under the Keyboard Preferences.
Function | Shortcut |
Show Help Manual | F1 |
Show Properties Palette | F2 |
Edit Styles | F3 |
Show Layers Palette | F6 |
Toggle All Guides | F11 |
Toggle All Palettes | F12 |
Function | Shortcut |
File | |
New | Ctrl+N |
New from Template | Ctrl+Alt+N |
Open | Ctrl+O |
Close | Ctrl+W |
Save | Ctrl+S |
Save As | Ctrl+Shift+S |
Get Text or Image depending on selection | Ctrl+I |
Ctrl+P | |
Print Preview | Ctrl+Alt+P |
Quit | Ctrl+Q |
Edit | |
Undo | Ctrl+Z |
Redo | Ctrl+Shift+Z |
Cut | Ctrl+X |
Copy | Ctrl+C |
Paste | Ctrl+V |
Copy Contents (Images Only) | Ctrl+Shift+C |
Paste Contents (Images Only) | Ctrl+Shift+V |
Paste Absolute Contents (Images Only) | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V |
Select All | Ctrl+A |
Advanced Select All | Ctrl+Alt+A |
Deselect All | Ctrl+Shift+A |
Search/Replace | Ctrl+F |
Edit Text | Ctrl+T |
Styles | F3 |
Image Effects | Ctrl+E |
Item | |
Duplicate | Ctrl+D |
Delete Item | Ctrl+K |
Group | Ctrl+G |
Ungroup | Ctrl+Shift+G |
Is Locked | Ctrl+L |
Size is Locked | Ctrl+Shift+L |
Raise | Ctrl+Home |
Lower | Ctrl+End |
Raise to top | Home |
Lower to bottom | End |
Insert | |
Text Frame | T |
Image Frame | I |
Shape | S |
Polygon | P |
Line | L |
Bezier Curve | B |
Freehand Line | F |
Render Frame | D |
Soft Hyphen | Ctrl+Shift+(-) |
Non Breaking Dash | Ctrl+Alt+(-) |
Non Breaking Space | Ctrl+Space |
Page Number | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P |
New Line | Shift+Return |
Frame Break | Ctrl+Return |
Column Break | Ctrl+Shift+Return |
View | |
Fit to Height | Ctrl+0 (zero) |
Zoom to 100% | Ctrl+1 |
Preview Mode | Ctrl+Alt+P |
Show Rulers | Ctrl+Shift+R |
Plugin Menu Items | |
Save as Template | Ctrl+Alt+S |
Save as Image | Ctrl+Shift+E |
Others | |
Select Tool | C |
Rotate Tool | R |
Zoom Tool | Z | Zoom In | Ctrl+(+) |
Zoom Out | Ctrl+(-) |
Edit Contents Mode | E |
Link Frames | L |
Unlink Frames | U |
Eye Dropper | Y |
Insert Unicode Character Value | Ctrl+Shift+U |
Stacked Objects, next in Z-order* | Ctrl+Shift+LMouse |
Resize proportionally | Ctrl+drag** |
Move frame/group with X/Y constrained*** | Ctrl+drag |
Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation | Ctrl+drag and rotate |
Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and | Ctrl+drag and rotate |
* Cycles Top-Middle-Bottom-None, then repeats starting at top
** Make sure you let up on the mouse before letting up on Ctrl
*** Meaning you can only drag in X or Y direction, not both, for each click-move-unclick
**** You need to activate Rotation first (toolbar or keyboard R)
You can constrain objects when re-sizing them with Ctrl+drag. Constraining keeps the aspect ratio the same as the original shape.
Esc | Closes Story Editor |
Ctrl+W | Save Changes and Close Story Editor |
Ctrl+S | Save File While Editing in Story Editor |
The following are for points, millimeters, picas*, centimeters, ciceros | |
Arrow keys | Move item 1 unit |
Ctrl+Arrow | Move item 10 units |
Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.1 units |
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.01 units |
* Movement units for picas are points | |
The following are for inches | |
Arrow keys | Move item 0.139 units** |
Ctrl+Arrow | Move item 1 unit |
Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.1 units |
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.01 units |
** This is about 10 points |
Enlarging/Shrinking Frames*** | |
Alt+Right Arrow | Enlarges by moving right side outward |
Alt+Left Arrow | Enlarges by moving left side outward |
Alt+Up Arrow | Enlarges by moving top side outward |
Alt+Down Arrow | Enlarges by moving bottom side outward |
Shift+Alt+Right Arrow | Shrinks by moving left side inward |
Shift+Alt+Left Arrow | Shrinks by moving right side inward |
Shift+Alt+Up Arrow | Shrinks by moving bottom side inward |
Shift+Alt+Down Arrow | Shrinks by moving top side inward |
*** Amount of movement is one unit, but for picas, movements are one point |
Formerly, if you also held Ctrl, amount of enlarging/shrinking was larger, but currently this only moves the frame.
The amount of movement is numerically independent of units but dependent on scaling of the image, and therefore is greatest with a unit of inches.
Shift | Ctrl | Shift+Ctrl | |
Movement: | 0.1 × Scaling | 0.01 × Scaling | 0.001 × Scaling |
Example | |||
48.1% Scale: | 4.81 units | 0.481 units | 0.0481 units |
Clearly, with units of inches, one would need to be careful. Furthermore, note that if your X-Scale is different from Y-Scale, the movement will be different in each direction, again according to this calculation.
Holding Shift while Left clicking add objects to current selection, for multiple selection.
Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Characters
Ctrl+Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Words
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down selects to beginning/end of paragraph
Shift+Home selects Text back to the beginning of the line
Shift+End selects Text to the end of the line
Ctrl+Right/Left Arrow moves to the next/previous Word
Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow moves to the beginning/end of current paragraph or the previous/next paragraph
PgUp/PgDn moves to beginning/end of current frame.
Ctrl+Alt+Click selects a single Object out of a Groups