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8/28/2009

SI Tip of the Day - More hot-keys

Here are a few more hot-keys that are often handy:

Alt+S Tags view (toggle)
Alt+R Revisions view (toggle)
Alt+N Notes view (toggle)
Shift+F8 Revision tracking (toggle)

CTRL+F Find text (to find next, use F3. Side note: If you have text selected, it will put that text into the Find dialog box. Very useful if you have just added a supplemental reference, and you want to go back to the text you were editing.)

Ctrl+B Find brackets (to find next, also use F3, if you use pause after each change)

CTRL+I Find tags (useful for location TAI options if you are marking deletions)

Alt+Z Zoom in
Alt+Y Zoom back out

Alt+G Display only English units
Alt+M Display only metric units
Alt+B Display both

For the ones you use repeatedly, it is well worth taking a moment to let those sink in. Keys on the keyboard are always right where you expect them, unlike your mouse pointer which roams all over the place.

There are many many more. Those are just my favorites for today. As you browse through menus to find commands, if you look to the right, you will see all the hot-keys. For commands that don't have an assigned hot-key, you may be able to use Alt and follow the underscored items in menus. Thus Alt, T, V runs the Validate command.

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