User Guide > UserInterface > Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can also navigate within the AE UserInterface by using shortcuts.

General

Shortcut

Description

F1 Opens the Automation Engine Documentation at the position where it contains information about the active window.
F3 Displays the Quick Access field.
F5 Updates the content of the active window.

Shift key + UP or DOWN ARROW

Highlights several lines in the list view.

CONTEXT MENU (button between "ALT GR" and "CTRL")

Opens the context menu for the highlighted window.

CTRL + A Highlights everything.

CTRL + C

Copies the highlighted text.

CTRL + F

Opens the search window for texts.

CTRL + P

Prints the content of the highlighted window.

CTRL + V

Inserts the copied text at the mouse-pointer position.

CTRL + X Cuts the highlighted text.
CTRL + Y Repeats a previously undone modification in the Process and Documentation tabs.
CTRL + Z Undoes the last modification in the Process and Documentation tabs.
ALT +  space bar Opens the menu of the UserInterface window.
Enter key Confirms the window entry.

Menu Bar

Shortcut

Description

ALT + letter

Opens the menu of the underlined specified letter.

ALT + letter + letter

Opens the menu and executes the command of the menu whose letter is underlined.

Desktop

Shortcut

Description

Caps Lock key + CTRL + TAB

Backward switch between windows.

CTRL  + TAB

Forward switch between windows.

CTRL  + F4

Closes a window.

CTRL  + <

Switches to the left desktop.

CTRL  + Caps Lock key + <

Switches to the right desktop.

Objects

Shortcut

Description

ALT + M Opens the monitor of the superordinate object.
F2 Opens a dialog box for renaming the highlighted object.

TAB

Switches to the next setting within a tab.

TAB + LEFT ARROW

Switches to the left tab in objects.

TAB + RIGHT ARROW

Switches to the right tab in objects.

CTRL + E

Opens an object for editing.

You can use it in the Explorer, the Activity Window, the System Overview, the statistics window, the Search window, and for the tasks of workflows and schedules. Note that you cannot use this shortcut does when the Line Tool is active.

CTRL + F Opens the quick search function in object lists (such as the Explorer) or workflows.
CTRL + H Opens the statistics.
CTRL + I Opens the Detail Window.
CTRL + M Opens the monitor.
CTRL + N Opens the window containing the templates for object creation.
CTRL + R Opens the report.
CTRL + S Stores an object.
CTRL + T Opens the statistics of the superordinate task.
CTRL + space bar Opens a code-completion function which completes the names of script functions and script statements on windows where scripting is used. A list of possible script elements is displayed if there is more than one possible choice. Use the ESC key to close this list.