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Shortcut keys in SmartEdit Writer


F1
Opens the Get Help page on the SmartEdit Writer website

Navigation

F6
Opens the Document tree
F7
Opens the Fragments tree
F8
Opens the Research tree
Ctrl+Tab
Move to the next word processor tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Move to the previous word processor tab

Adding new items

Ctrl+Shift+S
Add a new scene
Ctrl+Shift+N
Add a new note
Ctrl+Shift+D
Add a new folder

Ctrl+Shift+M
Add a new image [Research tree only]
Ctrl+Shift+B
Add a new bookmark [Research tree only]
Ctrl+Shift+L
Add a new file [Research tree only]

Searching

Ctrl+F
When the word processor is active, opens the Find and Replace dialog
Ctrl+F
When a tree is active, opens the Find in tree box at the top of the tree
Ctrl+Shift+F
Opens the global search, so you can search in every scene and note

Tree — Document, Fragments and Research

F2
Renames the current tree item
Del
Deletes the current tree item

Word Processor

Ctrl+G
Moves the focus from the word processor to the current scene or note in the tree
Ctrl+W
Closes the currently active scene
Ctrl+P
Prints the active scene or note

Ctrl+A
Select all text in scene or note
Ctrl+B
Makes selected text bold
Ctrl+I
Makes selected text italic
Ctrl+U
Makes selected text underlined
Ctrl+Z
Undo last change
Ctrl+Y
Redo last change

Ctrl+X
Cuts the selected text
Ctrl+C
Copies the selected text
Ctrl+V
Pastes the copied text
Ctrl+Shift+V
Pastes the copied text as plain text (no formatting)
Ctrl+J
Justifies the selected text
Ctrl+L
Aligns the selected text to the left
Ctrl+R
Aligns the selected text to the right
Shift+F3
Toggles the selected text between lower case, upper case and title case

Ctrl+F
Opens the Find and Replace dialog
Ctrl+D
Opens the font dialog

Ctrl+[
Increase the font size of selected text
Ctrl+]
Decrease the font size of selected text

Ctrl+ Up Arrow
Moves to beginning of paragraph
Ctrl+ Down Arrow
Moves to end of paragraph

Ctrl+Del
Deletes the word to the right of the cursor
Ctrl+Backspace
Deletes the word to the left of the cursor
Ctrl+End
Moves the cursor to the end of the document
Ctrl+Home
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document

Other Topics

  • Getting Started — creating a new project
  • The Project Manager
  • Scenes, Fragments & Notes — the SmartEdit Writer workflow
  • The Research Tree — Collecting images, bookmarks and files in your project
  • Menus and Toolbars — an Overview
  • The Word Processor
  • The spell checker and associated features
  • Your daily word count – project wide stats
  • Searching — Finding something in your project
  • Automatic backups and automatic saving
  • Document Drafts
  • Customising the user interface
  • Shortcut keys in SmartEdit Writer
  • Importing Word documents
  • Exporting your finished novel to a Word document
  • Working on multiple PCs
  • Introducing SmartEdit Editor
  • Running SmartEdit Editor for the first time
  • Overview of SmartEdit Editor checks — adverbs, dialogue tags, homonyms, etc.
  • Sentence structure & punctuation

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