The Accelerator Guide

The Accelerator Guide is a button that, when pressed, lists all available keyboard accelerators.

• The Accelerator Guide in Two Forms
• Displaying Keyboard Accelerators
• Adjusting to Keyboard Qualifiers

The Accelerator Guide in Two Forms

The Accelerator Guide is shown in one of two ways:

• In a frame on it's own, see fig 1.
• As part of the Function Bar, at the left or top side of it, see fig 2.

The operation of the Accelerator Guide is identical in both cases.

Fig 1: The Accelerator Guide in a separate frame

Fig 2: The Accelerator Guide as part of the Function Bar

Displaying Keyboard Accelerators

When the button in fig 1 (or fig 2) is pressed, a window pops up, displaying all currently available keyboard accelerators (see fig 3). The window is shown in the direction of the arrow of the button.

The popup window that lists the accelerators is closed either by:

• Pressing Escape, or
• By clicking the mouse somewhere outside the popup window.

Fig 3: A listing of Alt qualified accelerators

Adjusting to Keyboard Qualifiers

The Accelerator Guide adjusts to any qualifiers (Ctrl, Shift and Alt on the keyboard) that are held down when displaying the accelerators. In fig 3, the Alt key is held down, so the popup window displays all available Alt qualified keyboard accelerators.

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