General keyboard shortcuts

The following shortcuts apply in most documents and frames. Some actions have two or more shortcuts.

Shortcuts for manipulating windows

  Action or command   Keyboard shortcut    
Scroll down one window in a document window Page Down

Scroll up one window in a document window Page Up

Scroll to the beginning of a document window Home

Scroll to the end of a document window End

Tile windows vertically (like columns) rather than horizontally (like rows) Option while you choose Tile Windows from the Window menu

Shortcuts for other basic actions

  Action or command   Keyboard shortcut    
Cancel selections in a dialog box and close the dialog box -. (period)

Cancel printing -. (period)

Center align text or cell data -\ (backslash)

Check Document Spelling -=

Check Selection Spelling Shift--Y

Copy -C, F3

Cut -X, F2

Find Again -E

Find/Change -F

Find Selection Shift--E

Help -?, Help

Justify text (align to both margins) Shift--\ (backslash)

Left align text or cell data -[ (left bracket)

Move to next field (in most dialog boxes) Tab

New -N
(Opens a new word-processing document. You can choose a different document type in the General Preferences panel.)

Open -O

Page View Shift--P

Paste -V, F4

Print -P

Quit AppleWorks -Q

Right align text or cell data -] (right bracket)

Save -S

Save As Shift--S

Select All -A

Show/Hide Accents -K

Show/Hide Button Bar Shift--X

Show/Hide Clippings -2

Show/Hide Links Shift--M

Show/Hide Rulers Shift--U

Show/Hide Starting Points -1

Show/Hide Styles Shift--W

Show/Hide Tools Shift--T

Thesaurus Shift--Z

Undo/Redo -Z, F1

Related topic

  Using the Button Bar, contextual menus, and keyboard shortcuts

 
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