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Changing Keyboard Shortcuts

The Keyboard Shortcut catalogue shows all keyboard shortcuts for your product. Keyboard shortcuts appear in yellow text or in white text in the list:

  • Yellow text: identifies shortcuts that are used everywhere in your product.
  • White text: identifies keyboard shortcuts that are specific to the area you are in.

To edit a keyboard shortcut:

  1. From the area where you want to use the new keyboard shortcut, open the Keyboard Shortcut Editor(Ctrl+Alt+F8).
  2. Select the keyboard shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcut catalogue.

    The keystroke sequence, its description and its category (which identifies the area of the software to which a shortcut is associated) appear in the Keystroke Editor fields. If you select a map-to-button keyboard shortcut, the word “Yes” appears in the Works Only if the Button is on screen.

  3. Click Clear in the Keyboard Shortcut Manager area to clear the existing keystroke sequence.
  4. Enter the new keystroke sequence by clicking keys in the Keystroke Editor or by pressing keys on your computer's keyboard.
    Tip: Currently used keystrokes are greyed out. If you use only the highlighted keys to build your shortcut, you are sure to create a combination that's not used by any other shortcut.
  5. Click Set in the Keyboard Shortcut Manager area.
    If you try to assign to a shortcut a keystroke that is used in another shortcut, a dialogue window appears. It offers you the following choices:
    • Cancel: Cancels the operation.
    • Clear: Clears the conflicting keystroke assignation and assigns the keystroke to the new shortcut only.
    • Keep: Keeps the Keystroke assignation on the conflicting shortcuts AND assigns it to the new shortcut as well. This may result in conflicting shortcuts and it cannot be guaranteed that the old / new shortcuts will work properly.

    The edited keyboard shortcut is marked in the catalogue with a “Y” to show that it is user-modified.

  6. Click Save to save the changes and close the Keyboard Shortcut editor.
Note: You can also assign shortcuts to entries added in a Contextual Menu using a python hook. Entries appear in the Shortcut editor by default when they are active.

Cloning Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use Clone to map multiple keystroke sequences to a single button, field, or function using the regular system keyboard. This feature does not provide macro functionality.

To clone a button, field, or function:

  1. Select a button, field, or function in the Keyboard Shortcut catalogue.
  2. Click Clone in the Keyboard Shortcut Manager area to create a second entry for this button, field, or function.

    A “Y” appears in the Keyboard Shortcut catalogue indicating that the cloned keyboard shortcut is user-modified.

  3. Enter the new keystroke sequence by clicking keys in the Keystroke Editor or by pressing keys on your computer's keyboard.
    Tip: Currently used keystrokes are greyed out. If you use only the highlighted keys to build your shortcut, you are sure to create a combination that's not used by any other shortcut.
  4. Click Set in the Keyboard Shortcut Manager area.
    If you try to assign to a shortcut a keystroke that is used in another shortcut, a dialogue window appears. It offers you the following choices:
    • Cancel: Cancels the operation.
    • Clear: Clears the conflicting keystroke assignation and assigns the keystroke to the new shortcut only.
    • Keep: Keeps the Keystroke assignation on the conflicting shortcuts AND assigns it to the new shortcut as well. This may result in conflicting shortcuts and it cannot be guaranteed that the old / new shortcuts will work properly.

    The edited keyboard shortcut is marked in the catalogue with a “Y” to show that it is user-modified.

  5. Click Save to save the changes and close the Keyboard Shortcut editor.

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