Text Editor

When in the Text Editor Dialog box there are some useful keyboard shortcuts to help you get around.

- Ctrl+C (Copy highlighted text to clipboard)

- Ctrl+X (Cut highlighted text to clipboard)

- Ctrl+V (Paste text from clipboard)

- Ctrl+Cursor Right (Next word right)

- Ctrl+Cursor Left (Next word left)

- Ctrl+End (End of text string)

- Ctrl+Home (Beginning of text string)

- Ctrl+Enter (Apply text edits)

- Shift+Cursor Keys (Highlight single text)

- Shift+End/Home (Highlight line text)

- Shift+Ctrl+Cursor Keys (Highlight next word)

- (Shift+) Enter (Continue on new line, text will be placed as a text node in the file)

AccuDraw

With the focus in the AccuDraw Dialog box there are some useful keys for changing the active snap mode.

- I (Intersection Snap)

- N (Nearest Snap)

- C (Center Snap)

- K (Keypoint Snap)

In the entry fields (X,Y,Z) for AccuDraw you can get previous entered values with Page Up/Page Down. This can be a time saver for retyping those long bearings.

- Page Up (Previous keyed in value)

- Page Down (First keyed in value)

Windows Keyboard

- Windows (Displays the start menu)

- Windows+E (Opens Explorer window)

- Windows+M (Minimizes all open windows)

- Windows+Shift+M (Restores all open windows)

- Windows+F (Opens Find/Search window)

- Windows+Tab (Cycle open applications in the task bar)

- Windows+R (Open the windows command line, entering: cmd, will open DOS like command dialog)

MicroStation Pull down

With a default install of MicroStation the pull down menu has predefined hotkeys to help you run commands and open dialogs. Hotkeys can be added to the pull down menu using Workspace > Customize in MicroStation.

- Ctrl+N (Opens the New file dialog)

- Ctrl+O (Opens the Open file dialog)

- Ctrl+W (Closes MicroStation)

- Ctrl+S (Save file)

- Ctrl+F (Save settings)

- Ctrl+P (Opens the Print dialog)

- Ctrl+Z (Undo Command)

- Ctrl+R (Redo Command)

- Ctrl+C (Copy selected elements to clipboard)

- Ctrl+X (Cut selected elements to clipboard)

- Ctrl+V (Paste elements from the clipboard)

- Ctrl+G (Groups selected elements as an unnamed cell)

- Ctrl+U (Ungroup selected elements)

- Ctrl+L (Locks selected element)

- Ctrl+M (Unlocks selected element)

- Ctrl+I (Element Information tool)

- Ctrl+B (Opens and will close the View Attributes dialog)

- Ctrl+T (Opens the Toolboxes dialog)

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