IBM Lotus Symphony
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Some of the shortcut keys may be assigned to your desktop system. Keys that are assigned to the desktop system are not available to Lotus® Symphony™. |
A great deal of your application's functionality can be called up by using shortcut keys. For example, the Ctrl+O shortcut keys are shown next to the Open entry in the File menu. If you want to access this function by using the shortcut keys, press and hold down Ctrl and then press the O key. Release both keys after the dialog appears.
When operating your application, you can choose between using the mouse or the keyboard for almost all of the operations available.
Some keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Exposé key assignment in Mac OS X version 10.6.3 or later. To use the shortcut in Symphony, you must first turn off the Exposé keyboard shortcut for this key.
When you press and release the ALT key, you will see that some of the characters shown on the menu bar are underlined. To access these menus directly, press the ALT key together with the underlined character. Once the menu is opened, you will again find underlined characters. You can access these menu items directly by simply pressing the underlined character key.
There is always one element highlighted in any given dialog - usually shown by a broken frame. This element, which can be either a button, an option field, an entry in a list box or a check box, is said to have the focus on it. If the focal point is a button, pressing Enter runs it as if you had clicked it. A check box is toggled by pressing the spacebar. If an option field has the focus, use the arrow keys to change the activated option field in that area. Use the Tab key to go from one element or area to the next one, use Shift + Tab to go in the reverse direction.
Pressing ESC closes the dialog without saving changes. If you place the focus on a button, not only will you see the dotted line framing the name of the button, but also a thicker shadow under the button selected. This indicates that if you exit the dialog by pressing the Enter key, it is the equivalent of pressing that button itself.
If you are using drag-and-drop, selecting with the mouse or clicking objects and names, you can use the keys Shift, Ctrl and occasionally Alt to access additional functionality. The modified functions available when holding down keys during drag-and-drop are indicated by the mouse pointer changing form. When selecting files or other objects, the modifier keys can extend the selection - the functions are explained where applicable.
When inputting text into a field in a dialog box, you can open a context menu which contains some of the most often-used commands.
Use the shortcut keys Shift+Ctrl+S to open the Special Characters dialog to insert one or more special characters.
Use Ctrl+A to select the entire text. Use the right or left arrow key to remove the selection.
Double-click a word to select it.
A triple-click in a text input field selects the entire field. A triple-click in a Lotus Symphony document selects the current sentence.
Use Ctrl+Delete to delete everything from the cursor position to the end of the word.
By using Ctrl and right or left arrow key, the cursor will jump from word to word; if you also hold down the Shift key, one word after the other is selected.
INSERT is used to switch between the insert mode and the overwrite mode and back again.
Drag-and-drop can be used within and outside of a text box.
The Ctrl+Z shortcut keys are used to undo modifications one step at a time; the text will then have the status it had before the first change.
Lotus Symphony has an AutoComplete function which activates itself in some text and list boxes. For example, enter c:\a into the URL field and the AutoComplete function displays the first file or first directory found on the C: drive that starts with the letter "a".
Use the down arrow key to scroll through the other files and directories. Use the right arrow key to also display an existing subdirectory in the URL field. Quick AutoComplete is available if you press the End key after entering part of the URL. Once you find the document or directory you want, press Enter.
If you want to terminate a macro that is currently running, press Shift+ Ctrl+Q.
The shortcut keys are shown on the right hand side of the menu lists next to the corresponding menu command.
Keys | Result |
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Enter key | Activates the focused button in a dialog |
Spacebar | Toggles the focused check box in a dialog. |
Arrow keys | Changes the active control field in an option section of a dialog. |
Tab | Advances focus to the next section or element in a dialog. |
Shift+Tab | Moves the focus to the previous section or element in a dialog. |
Alt+Down Arrow | Opens the list of the control field currently selected in a dialog. These shortcut keys apply not only to combo boxes but also to icon buttons with pop-up menus. Close an opened list by pressing the Escape key. |
Backspace | When a folder is shown: goes up one level (goes back) |
Ctrl+Click | Multiple selection |
Ctrl+Double-click | Docks or undocks the docking window |
Ctrl+T | Removes direct formatting from selected text or objects (as in Layout - Default Formatting) |
Ctrl+Backspace | Delete texts to beginning of word |
Ctrl+Tab | When the focus is in editing area, moves the focus to the toolbar. |
Enter (if an OLE object is selected) | Activates the selected OLE object. |
Enter (if a drawing object or text object is selected) | Activates text input mode. |
Ctrl+O | Opens a document. |
Ctrl+S | Saves the current document. |
Ctrl+Shift+S | Opens the Save As dialog. |
Alt+B | Creates a new document. |
Ctrl+Shift+N | Opens the New from Template dialog. |
Ctrl+W | Closes the current tab. |
Ctrl+Shift+W | Closes all tabs. |
Ctrl+P | Prints document. |
Ctrl+R | Aligns the text to be right. |
Ctrl+X | Cuts out the selected elements. |
Ctrl+C | Copies the selected items. |
Ctrl+E | Aligns the text to be centered. |
Ctrl+J | Justifies the text. |
Ctrl+K | Opens the Hyperlink dialog. |
Ctrl+L | Aligns the text to be left. |
Ctrl+V | Pastes from the clipboard. |
Ctrl+Shift+V | Opens the Paste Special dialog. |
Ctrl+A | Selects all. |
Ctrl+Z | Undoes last action. |
Ctrl+Y | Redoes last action. |
Ctrl+Shift+Y | Repeats last command. |
Ctrl+F | Calls the Find and Replace dialog. |
Ctrl+Shift+F | Searches for the last entered search term. |
Ctrl+Shift+G | Groups selected objects. |
Ctrl+Shift+H | Hides the docked panel. |
Ctrl+Shift+P | Superscript. |
Ctrl+Shift+R | Redraws the document view. |
Ctrl+Shift+S | Save as. |
Ctrl+Shift+T | Opens the Thumbnails view. |
Ctrl+Shift+0 | Automatically docks floating windows. |
Ctrl+I | The Italic attribute is applied to the selected area. If the cursor is positioned in a word, this word is also marked in italic. |
Ctrl+B | The Bold attribute is applied to the selected area. If the cursor is positioned in a word, this word is also put in bold. |
Ctrl+U | The Underlined attribute is applied to the selected area. If the cursor is positioned in a word, this word is also underlined. |
Ctrl+Enter at the Selection icon | Activates the first icon from the drop-down list of the items on the toolbar. |
Ctrl+Shift+B | Subscript |
Keys | Result |
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F1 | Starts the Lotus Symphony Help |
F6 | Moves focus to next sub-window. |
F7 | Starts Spell Check. |
F11 | Opens or closes Style List. |
Ctrl+F10 | Activates the first menu item (File menu) |
Ctrl+F4 | Closes the active document. |
Alt+F4 | Closes Lotus Symphony. |
Shift+F6 | Sets focus in previous subwindow. |
F10 (Mac special use) | Activates the first menu item (File menu) |
Shift+F10 | Opens the context menu. |
Ctrl+Shift+F10 | Moves focus to main menu. |
Ctrl+Shift+L | Shows shortcut keys list. |
Shift+Tab | Move the focus to previous section or element in a dialog |
Shift+Delete | Deletes content |
Alt+F4 | Closes the top dialog (if no dialogs, closes the current application) |
Keys | Result |
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Ctrl+6 | Shows or hides the Symphony sidebar. |
Ctrl+7 | Shows or hides the Symphony properties panel. |
F4 | Moves focus to sidebar directly. |
Keys | Result |
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Up arrow | Moves the selection up one. |
Down arrow | Moves the selection down. |
Shift+F10 | Opens a context menu. |
Ctrl+U | Refreshes the selected theme. |
Ctrl+R | Opens the Rename dialog. |
Insert | Inserts a new clip art. |
Ctrl+Enter | Adds new clip art. |
Ctrl+D | Deletes the selected theme. |
Insert | Inserts a new theme. |
Keys | Result |
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Home | Jumps to the first entry. |
End | Jumps to the last entry. |
Left Arrow | Selects the next Clip Art element on the left. |
Right Arrow | Selects the next Clip Art element on the right. |
Up Arrow | Selects the next Clip Art element above. |
Down Arrow | Selects the next Clip Art element below. |
Page Up | Scroll up one screen. |
Page Down | Scroll down one screen. |
Ctrl+Shift+Insert | Inserts the selected object as a linked object into the current document. |
Ctrl+I | Inserts a copy of the selected object into the current document. |
Ctrl+T | Opens the Rename dialog. |
Spacebar | Switches between themes view and object view. |
Enter | Switches between themes view and object view. |
Backspace (only in object view) | Switches back to main overview. |
Keys | Result |
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Select the toolbar with F6. Use the Down Arrow and Right Arrow to select the desired toolbar icon and press Ctrl+Enter | Inserts a Drawing Object. |
Tab | Selects the next Drawing Object. |
Shift+Tab | Selects the previous Drawing Object. |
Ctrl+Home | Selects the first Drawing Object. |
Ctrl+End | Selects the last Drawing Object. |
Alt+Up/Down/Left/Right Arrow | Moves the selected Drawing Object one pixel (in Selection Mode) Opens the properties dialog for a Drawing Object. |
Alt+Ctrl+Tab | Select the next point of the drawing object (Point Selection mode) In Rotation mode, the center of rotation can also be selected. |
Ctrl+Enter | Inserts drawing or form objects from toolbar. |
Shift key while creating or scaling a graphic object | The ratio of the object's width to height is fixed. |