Database keyboard shortcuts

You can use these general, selection, and navigation shortcuts in database documents. Some actions have two or more shortcuts.

General database keyboard commands

  Action or command   Keyboard shortcut    
Activate a field Tab, or click inside the field

Browse Shift--B

Copy (selected record) -C

Cut (selected record) -X

Define Fields Shift--D

Deselect all records Enter

Display or change format for a date, time, or number field (in Layout mode only) Double-click the field

Duplicate Record (in Browse and List modes) -D

Duplicate Request (in Find mode) -D

Find Shift--F

Hide Selected -(

Hide Unselected -)

Insert a tab in a text field Control-Tab

Insert Current Date (in a date field) -(hyphen)

Insert current record number (in a number field) -(hyphen)

Insert Current Time (in a time field) -(hyphen)

Layout Shift--L

List Shift--I

Match Records -M

New Record (in Browse and List modes) -R

New Request (in Find mode) -R

Paste (selected record, after the last record) -V

Show All Records Shift--A

Sort Records -J

Database selection and navigation keyboard commands

  Action or command   Keyboard shortcut    
Go To Record -G

Move to the first character in a field, or up a line in a long field Up Arrow, -Left Arrow

Move to the last character in a field, or down a line in a long field Down Arrow, -Right Arrow

Move to the next field (in Browse and Find modes) Tab

Move to the previous field (in Browse and Find modes) Shift-Tab

Move to the next record -Return or -Down Arrow

Move to the previous record Shift--Return or -Up Arrow

Select a record Click the record (outside a field)

Select a range of consecutive records Click the first record and Shift-click the last record

Select nonconsecutive records Press while you click the records

Related topic

  Using the Button Bar, contextual menus, and keyboard shortcuts

 
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