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Changing Keyboard Shortcuts

The Keyboard Shortcuts catalogue shows all keyboard shortcuts for the application. Keyboard shortcuts appear in yellow text or in white text in the list:

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

To change a keyboard shortcut:

  1. From the area where you want to use the new keyboard shortcut, open the Keyboard Shortcuts Editor with Ctrl+Alt+F8.

  2. Select the keyboard shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcuts catalogue.

    The description and keystroke sequence appear in the Keystroke Shortcut Manager. 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 on-screen keyboard, by pressing keys on your computer's keyboard, or by pressing the buttons on your tablet's pen.

    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.

    If you want to set a different keystroke for a keyboard shortcut on Linux and macOS, select the Set on Current OS options in the drop-down button attached to the Set button.

  6. Click Save to save the changes and close the Keyboard Shortcuts editor.

Note: You can also assign shortcuts to entries added in a context menu using a python hook. Entries appear in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor by default when they are active and are grouped under the Hook category.

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 an entry in the Keyboard Shortcuts 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 Shortcuts catalogue indicating that the cloned keyboard shortcut is user-modified.

  3. Enter the new keystroke sequence by clicking keys in the on-screen keyboard, by pressing keys on your computer's keyboard, or by pressing the buttons on your tablet's pen.

    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 Shortcuts 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 Shortcuts editor.

Reverting Keyboard Shortcuts

You can revert any modifications made to keyboard shortcuts.

To revert the assignment for the primary selected keyboard shortcut in the catalogue:

  1. Select a keyboard shortcut in the catalogue.
  2. Click Revert Cur to Factory in the Keyboard Shortcuts Manager area.

To revert the assignments for multiple keyboard shortcuts in the catalogue:

  1. Select multiple keyboard shortcuts in the catalogue.

    Tip: You can select multiple entries using the 'Add to Selection' (Ctrl+Click) or 'Add Range to Selection' (Shift+Click) keyboard shortcuts.
  2. Select Revert Selected to Factory in the drop-down button attached to the Revert Cur to Factory button.

To revert the all assignments for keyboard shortcuts in the catalogue:

  1. Select Revert All to Factory in the drop-down button attached to the Revert Cur to Factory button.

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