Menu Shortcuts Object Editing Shortcuts Text Editing Shortcuts Toolbox Shortcuts Navigating Shortcuts

Amiga users should hold down the Right Amiga key for the Command key and the Alt key for the Option key.

Windows users should hold down the Control key for the Command key and the Alt key for the Option key.

Menu Shortcuts

File menu

• New: Command+N
• Open: Command+O
• Close: Command+W
• Save: Command+S
• Save As: Shift+Control+S
• Insert Text: Command+I
• Place Graphic: Command+L
• Export Text: Command+E
• Export Graphic: Command+K
• Preferences: Command+D
• Print: Command+P
• About PageStream: Command+?
• Quit: Command+Q

Edit menu

• Undo: Command+Z
• Redo: Command+R
• Cut: Command+X
• Copy: Command+C
• Paste: Command+V
• Clear: Command+B
• Select All: Command+A
• Find/Change: Command+F
• Find Again: Command+G
• Change Again: Command+H
• Information: Command+\
• Send to Editor (Amiga Only): RightAmiga+T

Layout menu

• Master Page Setup: Command+M
• Hide or Show Grid: Shift+Control+G
• Toggle Snap-to-Grid: Shift+Control+N
• Hide or Show Page Guides: Shift+Control+U
• Toggle Snap-to-Guides: Shift+Control+I
• Hide or Show Rulers: Shift+Control+H

Type menu

• Font (Amiga Only): Control+N
• Type Style submenu:

• Plain: Control+P
• Bold: Control+B
• Italic: Control+I
• Underline: Control+U
• Outline: Control+O
• Reverse: Control+R
• Shadow: Control+W
• Small Caps: Control+Y
• Superscript: Control+E
• Subscript: Control+S

• Attributes: Control+A
• Line & Fill: Control+L
• Tracking: Control+\
• Leading: Control+G
• Tabs: Control+T
• Paragraph Format: Control+F
• Paragraph Alignment submenu:

• Left Justified Paragraph: Shift+Control+L
• Center Justified Paragraph: Shift+Control+C
• Right Justified Paragraph: Shift+Control+R
• Full Justified Paragraph: Shift+Control+J

• Hyphenation submenu:

• Toggle Auto Hyphenation: Control+H
• Insert Soft Hyphen: Control+-

• Kerning submenu:

• Toggle Auto Kerning: Control+K
• Manual Kern: Control+M

• Convert Case submenu:

• Convert to Uppercase: Control+4
• Convert to Lowercase: Control+5
• Convert to Capitalized: Control+6

• Insert submenu:

• Insert Character: Control+Z
• Insert Page #: Control+7
• Insert Previous Frame Page #: Control+8
• Insert Next Frame Page #: Control+9
• Insert Page Count: Control+0
• Insert Date: Shift+Control+D
• Insert Time: Shift+Control+T
• Insert Variable Text: Control+V

Object menu

• Line & Fill: L
• Text Wrap: W
• Duplicate: D
• Transform: T
• Rotate: R
• Align: A
• Distribute: Shift+D
• Move: Shift+M
• Move to Page: P
• Join Objects: J
• Merge Paths: M
• Split: S
• Convert to Path: C
• Drawing submenu:

• Make Drawing: Shift+K
• Dissolve Drawing: Shift+S
• Add to Drawing: Shift+W

• Group: G
• Unground: U
• Lock: Shift+L
• Unlock: Shift+U
• Stack submenu:

• Bring to Front: F
• Bring Forward: Shift+F
• Send to Back: B
• Send Backward: Shift+B

• Frame submenu:

• No Text Frame: Shift+N
• Text Frame: Shift+T
• Text Frame Options: Shift+O

• Mask submenu:

• Mask Graphic: Shift+A
• Release Mask: Shift+R
• Clear Mask: Shift+C
• Generate Mask Automatically: Shift+G

Scripts menu

• Play External Script: Shift+Control+P
• Start Recording: Shift+Control+E
• Stop Recording: Shift+Control+T

Window menu

• View submenu:

• Actual Size: Command+1
• Full Page: Command+2
• Full Pasteboard: Command+3
• Full Width: Command+4
• Full Height: Command+5
• 25%: Command+6
• 50%: Command+7
• 75%: Command+8
• 150%: Command+9
• 200%: Command+0
• 400%: Command+-
• Other: Command+=

• Hide or Show Toolbox: Shift+Control+1
• Hide or Show Toolbar: Shift+Control+2
• Hide or Show Edit Palette: Shift+Control+3
• Hide or Show Color Palette: Shift+Control+4
• Hide or Show Style Palette: Shift+Control+5
• Hide or Show Script Palette: Shift+Control+6
• Hide or Show Page Palette: Shift+Control+7
• Hide or Show Page Palette: Shift+Control+8

Object Editing Shortcuts

Nudging objects

 
Object(s) must be selected with the Object or Reshape tool to nudge them.

• Nudge left: Left Arrow
• Nudge right: Right Arrow
• Nudge up: Up Arrow
• Nudge down: Down Arrow

Note: hold down a Shift key to move by 10% of the nudge amount.

Moving the contents of a frame

A picture, drawing, EPS object, compound object, or group must be selected with the Reshape tool to shift the contents within its frame.

• Shift left: Control+Left Arrow
• Shift right: Control+Right Arrow
• Shift up: Control+Up Arrow
• Shift down: Control+Down Arrow
• Center contents in frame: Control-C

Note: hold down a Shift key to shift by 10% of the nudge amount.

Scaling the contents of a frame

A picture, drawing, EPS object, compound object, or group must be selected with the Reshape tool to scale the contents within its frame.

• Increase by 5%: Option+Up Arrow
• Increase by 1%: Shift+Option+Up Arrow
• Decrease by 5%: Option+Down Arrow
• Decrease by 1%: Shift+Option+Down Arrow
• Scale to fit in frame: Shift+Ctrl+F

Selecting and deleting points

You can edit the points in a path with the keyboard when at least one point in a path is selected with the Reshape tool.

• Select next point: Option+Up Arrow
• Select previous point: Option+Down Arrow
• Delete selected point: Delete

Nudging points

You can edit the points in a path with the keyboard when at least one point in a path is selected with the Reshape tool.

• Nudge left: Left Arrow
• Nudge right: Right Arrow
• Nudge up: Up Arrow
• Nudge down: Down Arrow

Note: hold down a Shift key to move by 10% of the nudge amount.

Text Editing Shortcuts

Moving the insertion point

To move the insertion point to the...

• previous character: press the Left Arrow.
• next character: press the Right Arrow.
• previous word: press Option Left Arrow.
• next word: press Option Right Arrow.
• previous line: press the Up Arrow.
• next line: press the Down Arrow.
• previous paragraph: press Option Up Arrow.
• next paragraph: press Option Down Arrow.
• start of the line: press Control Left Arrow.
• end of the line: press Control Right Arrow.
• start of the article: press Control Up Arrow.
• end of the article: press Control Down Arrow.

Text deletion:

• Previous character: Delete (Amiga and Windows: Backspace)
• Next character: Forward Delete (Amiga and Windows: Del)
• Selected text: Delete or Forward Delete (Amiga and Windows: Backspace or Del)

Kerning or tracking:

• Increase by 0.05em: Control+]
• Decrease by 0.05em: Control+[

Leading:

• Increase by 1pt: Control+'
• Decrease by 1pt: Control+;

Breaks and indents:

• Right indent tab: Shift+Tab
• Indent here: Control+/
• New paragraph: Return
• New line: Shift+Return
• Column break: Enter
• Page break: Shift+Enter

Toolbox Shortcuts

• Next tool: Option+Tab
• Previous tool: Shift+Option+Tab

Navigating Shortcuts

• Go to previous page: Option+1
• Go to next page: Option+2
• Go to page: Option+3

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