Keyboard shortcuts

When you are editing a form, many functions are available via keyboard shortcuts. The basic keyboard shortcuts are shown below.

Keyboard shortcut

 

Description

 

Tab or AltGr-Tab

Go to next field - on next page, if appropriate

Shift-Tab

 

Go to previous field - on previous page, if appropriate

 

Ctrl-Tab

 

Insert Tab in text

 

Enter

 

Insert new line (multi-line or expandable fields only)

 

Alt

 

Move between the menu at the top of the screen and the form fill section. Enables the menus to be accessed without using the mouse.

 

Up Arrow

 

Move up a line within a multi-line field

 

Down Arrow

 

Move down a line within a multi-line field

 

PageDn

 

Scroll down

 

PageUp

 

Scroll up

 

Ctrl-PageDn

 

Move to next page

 

Ctrl-PageUp

 

Move to previous page

 

Shift-PageDn

 

Move to last field on page

 

Shift-PageUp

 

Move to first field on page

 

F1

 

Display Form Help associated with the selected field

 

F3

 

Paragraph formatting

 

Shift-F3 - Hold down the Shift key and press F3 to cycle through the three formats.

 

UPPER CASE / lower case / Initial Capitals.

 

Ctrl-Shift->

 

Move to the next form in a forms bundle

 

Ctrl-Shift-<

 

Move to the previous form in a forms bundle

 

F4

 

Add table row

 

Shift-F4

 

Delete table row

 

Ctrl-F4 or Alt-F4

 

Close form

 

Shift-F5

 

Go to page ... [you are prompted to enter the required page number]

 

F6

 

Add duplicate page

 

Ctrl-F6

 

Remove current (duplicate) page

 

F7

 

Spell Check

 

F8

 

Validate Form

 

F9

 

Insert date in ‘long date’ format

 

Shift-F9

 

Insert date in ‘short date’ format

 

F10

 

When the Help, About Laserform Desktop dialog box is open F10 will create a copy of the technical information document in the local Laserform Desktop installation folder (C:\Program Files\Laserform\Laserform Desktop\ by default).
Shift-F10

 

Display Field Menu

 

Shift-F11

 

Inserts characters into every text field in the form. This is used for testing purposes

 

Ctrl-F11

 

Clear all data in a form

 

Shift-F12

 

Prints a list of Field Names in the current form

 

X or Shift-X (in a field)

 

Strikeout

 

Ctrl-A

 

Select all text in current data field

 

Ctrl-B

 

Bold text

 

Ctrl-C

 

Copy

 

Ctrl-D

 

Spell checks current data field

 

Ctrl-F

 

Show/hide Forms Explorer

 

Ctrl-Shift-F

 

Toggle "No Formatting" for current data field

 

Ctrl-I

 

Italic text

 

Ctrl-N

 

New form file

 

Ctrl-O

 

Open form file

 

Ctrl-P

 

Print form

 

Ctrl-S

 

Save form file

 

Ctrl-T

 

Insert tick mark

 

Ctrl-U

 

Underline text

 

Ctrl-V

 

Paste

 

Ctrl-W

 

Spell checks current page

 

Ctrl-X

 

Cut

 

Ctrl-Z

 

Undo (in current data field)

 


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