or Help menu / Keyboard shortcuts
or File menu / New
or File menu / Open
or File menu / Save
or File Menu / Print
or Edit menu / Find
or Edit menu / Replace
WordScribe supports the following keyboard shortcut keys.
| Keys | Operations | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Alt-F | File menu | |
| Alt-E | Edit menu | |
| Alt-O | Format menu | |
| Alt-V | View menu | |
| Alt-H | Help menu | |
| F1 | Keyboard shortcuts | Same as or Help menu / Keyboard shortcuts |
| Ctrl+N | New file | Same as or File menu / New |
| Ctrl+O | Open file | Same as or File menu / Open |
| Ctrl+S | Save file | Same as or File menu / Save |
| Ctrl-P | Print file | Same as or File Menu / Print |
| Ctrl-F | Find | Same as or Edit menu / Find |
| Ctrl-H | Replace | Same as or Edit menu / Replace |
| Ctrl-Keypad-(+) | Zoom in | Same as View menu / Zoom in |
| Ctrl-Keypad-(-) | Zoom out | Same as View menu / Zoom out |
| Ctrl-Tab | Tab | |
| Ctrl-A | Select all | |
| Ctrl-C | Copy | Same as |
| Ctrl-V | Paste | Same as |
| Ctrl-W | Paste unformatted | |
| Ctrl-X | Cut | Same as |
| Ctrl-Z | Undo | Same as |
| Ctrl-Y | Redo | Same as |
| Ctrl-B | Bold | Same as |
| Ctrl-I | Italics | Same as |
| Ctrl-U | Underline | Same as |
| Ctrl-(+) (Ctrl-Shift-(=)) | Convert to superscript | Same as |
| Ctrl-(=) | Convert to subscript | Same as |
| Ctrl-1 | Set line spacing to 1 line | |
| Ctrl-2 | Set line spacing to 2 lines | |
| Ctrl-5 | Set line spacing to 1.5 lines | |
| Ctrl-(') (apostrophe) | Set acute accent for next keystroke | After pressing Ctrl-(') press the letter to be accented. |
| Ctrl-(`) (back apostrophe) | Set grave accent for next keystroke | After pressing Ctrl-(`) press the letter to be accented. |
| Ctrl-(~) (tilde) | Set tilde for next keystroke | After pressing Ctrl-(~) press the letter to receive the tilde. |
| Ctrl-(;) (semicolon) | Set umlaut for next keystroke | After pressing Ctrl-(;) press the letter to receive the umlaut. |
| Ctrl-(^) (caret) | Set circumflex for next keystroke | After pressing Ctrl-(^) press the letter to receive the circumflex. |
| Ctrl-(,) (comma) | Set cedilla for next keystroke | After pressing Ctrl-(,) press the letter to receive the cedilla. |
| Ctrl-(") (Ctrl-Shift-(')) | Activate smart quotes | |
| Backspace | Delete previous character | |
| Ctrl-Backspace | Delete previous word | |
| Insert | Switch between overwrite and insert modes | |
| Ctrl-(←) (Left arrow) | Move cursor one word to the left | |
| Ctrl-(→) (Right arrow) | Move cursor one word to the right | |
| Ctrl-Home | Move to the beginning of the document | |
| Ctrl-End | Move to the end of the document | |
| Ctrl-PageUp | Move to the top of the text currently showing in the window | |
| Ctrl-PageDown | Move to the bottom of the text currently showing in the window | |
| Ctrl-Delete | Delete the next word. | |
| Alt-X | Convert a Unicode hexadecimal value in the text preceding the cursor to the corresponding character | For decimal values, use Alt-xxx or Alt-0xxx. |
| Alt-Shift-X | Convert the character in the text preceding the cursor to the corresponding Unicode hexadecimal value | |
| Alt-0xxx (xxx = digit sequence on number pad) | Insert the character with Unicode value xxx | Accepts decimal values only. For hexadecimal values, use Alt-X. |
| Alt-xxx (xxx = digit sequence on number pad) | Insert the character with Unicode value xxx for values of 256 or greater. For values less than 256, the character is based on the current keyboard | Accepts decimal values only. For hexadecimal values, use Alt-X. |
| Ctrl-Shift-A | Convert selected text to all caps. If pressed a second time, convert to original casing | There are no corresponding shortcuts for conversion to lower case or proper case. |
| Ctrl-Shift-L | Change list style | Rotates among bullet, decimal number, lowercase letter, uppercase letter, lowercase Roman numeral, uppercase Roman numeral, no bullet. |
| Ctrl-Shift-(>); (greater than sign) | Increase font size | Font size increases by 1pt in the range 4pt to 11pt, and by 2pt in the range 12pt to 28pt; changes from 28pt to 36pt to 48pt to 72pt to 80pt; increases by 10pt in the range 80pt to 1630pt; and stops at 1638pt. |
| Ctrl-Shift-(<) (less than sign) | Decrease font size | Font size decreases in the reverse order from that of Ctrl-Shift->. |