Command Key Shortcuts
Other Keyboard Shortcuts
Panel and Dialog Window Shortcuts
Letter-Key Shortcuts
Chart Window Shortcuts
Reunion has a huge variety of keyboard and mouse shortcuts.
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A keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys that are pressed, usually at the same time, to achieve the same result as choosing a command from a menu or clicking a button, but are often much faster to use. |
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A mouse shortcut is clicking more than once, or clicking while simultaneously pressing a modifier key on the keyboard. |
Except where noted, these shortcuts are available only in the family view.
To perform Command key shortcuts, hold down the Command key on the keyboard and then press another key before letting the Command key up.
b |
Locate starting box - in tree view only |
c |
Copy (the family view, tree view, selected item in Media window, highlighted text, or text of selected source) |
d |
Direct Lines Bold |
Duplicate Source - when a source is selected in the Sources sidebar. | |
e |
Edit Family, Children section
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Edit Source - when a source is selected in the Sources sidebar. | |
f |
Find
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When cursor is inside a log field or note field, then Command-f initiates "Find on this page" | |
g |
Clicks the button in the tree view or reports view (if a button appears in the bottom bar)Clicks the button in the List window, if it is frontmost Find Person by ID number - in the family view. |
h |
Hide Reunion |
L |
List window |
m |
Mark panel |
n |
New family file |
o |
Open |
p |
Preview/Print (the family view, tree view, or selected item in Media window) |
q |
Quit |
r |
Home family |
When the cursor is blinking in a field of the Edit Person or Edit Family panel, Command-r will insert the most recently used source citation. | |
s |
Open sources in the List window |
t |
Tree View |
u |
Show Usage of a Source - when a source is selected in the Sources sidebar |
v |
Paste (in text fields or media items) |
w |
Close frontmost window (if the cursor is not in a text field) |
x |
Cut (in text fields or items in Multimedia sidebar) |
y |
Unmark everybody in the family file and then mark everybody listed in the current sidebar or List window, whichever is frontmost. |
z |
Undo (in text fields) |
1 |
First family view |
2 |
Second family view |
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? |
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[ |
Back |
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Forward |
` |
Cycle Through Windows [tilde key] |
, |
Settings |
+ |
Increase font size of all fields in the family view, sidebars, and List windows. In the tree view, this shortcut zooms in. |
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Decrease font size of all fields in the family view, sidebars, and List windows. In the tree view, this shortcut zooms out. |
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Returns to the family view from any other view |
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Open previous/next marked person |
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Click the first direct-line child | |
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Open lowest person ID | |
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Open highest person ID | |
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Open next higher person ID | |
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Open next lower person ID | |
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Open lowest family ID |
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Open highest family ID |
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Open next higher family ID |
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Open next lower family ID |
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f | Advanced Find |
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r | Find Relationship |
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h | Hide other application windows |
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t | Special Characters - when the cursor is in a text field |
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h | To husband's next spouse |
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w | To wife's next spouse |
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Note: this is not the "Forward Delete" key on extended keyboards.
• Delete selected person in the People sidebar or List People window |
Miscellaneous Clicking Shortcuts | |
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Single-click |
Empty button to create a record for a parent. |
Single-click |
Empty button to create a new record. |
Option Key Shortcuts | ||
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click |
button to designate the current family as the home family. |
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click |
Sidebar items in the navbar to open lists in the List window, rather than the sidebar. For example, Option-click Sources in the list of Sidebars to open the List window, showing sources. |
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click |
Children to toggle bold text style. |
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drag |
To duplicate a child button, hold down the Option key and drag a child button to the Clipboard sidebar. Then, when you drag the child button out of the Clipboard into another family, a duplicate child button is created. |
Control-Click Shortcuts | ||
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click | Parent, husband, wife or children buttons to show contextual Person menus. |
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click | Any person's name in any sidebar to show contextual Person menus. |
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click | Any name in the tree view to show a menu of the clicked person's spouses, children, siblings and some other features. Selecting somebody from the menu will move that person to the source position in the tree view. |
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click | Anywhere in the children box (except directly on a child button) to see a pop-up window of children. |
Shift-Click Shortcuts | ||
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click |
button in the navbar to open the Family View Settings window. (The family view must be selected for this shortcut to work.) |
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click |
Connections (names) in notes or in the family view to bypass the Quickview window and go directly to the linked record.
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click |
Names of "other spouses" or "other children" in the family view to bypass the Quickview window and go directly to the linked person.
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button in the navbar to enter Advanced Find. |
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1 |
Clicks the first section button. |
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2 |
Clicks the second section button. |
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3 |
Clicks the third section button. |
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] |
Clicks the "next" section button in windows/panels with tabs. |
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[ |
Clicks the "previous" section button in windows/panels with tabs. |
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Clicks the default button shown in blue. For example, in the Edit Person panel, the default button is the button | |
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Clicks the default button if the cursor is not blinking inside a multi-line text field | |
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Moves cursor to next field | |
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Moves cursor to previous field |
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d |
Clicks the button in message warnings |
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Cancels or closes modal dialog windows | |
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Cancels or closes modal dialog windows |
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click |
In report configuration windows, Shift-click the button to open the Layout window. |
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exit a field |
(Option-Tab or Option-click). Moves the cursor to the next field without applying the Initial Caps or Last Name UPPERCASE buttons. Avoids the Custom Date window when tabbing out of a date field. |
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n | Enter source by number (from Edit Person or Edit Family panel) |
Text appearing in editable text fields in windows may be selected and edited using standard Mac mouse techniques and keyboard shortcuts. (These also apply to text in chart boxes.)
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x | Cut |
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c | Copy |
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v | Paste |
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z | Undo (In Note fields, "Undo" only works while the cursor is still inside the field.) |
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a | Select all |
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Move cursor to the end of a field |
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Move cursor to the beginning of a field |
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Clears previous character. |
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Forward Delete | Clears next character. |
The following shortcuts apply only to text in Notes, Noteboard, Logs and Free-form source text fields...
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t | Plain |
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b | Bold |
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i | Italic |
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u | Underline |
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k | Strikethrough |
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v | Paste as Plain Text |
Highlighted text can be typed over, or you can position the cursor (using the mouse or arrow keys) within the text to delete or insert text. When the entire content of a field is highlighted, you can press the Delete key (formerly called "Backspace") to clear the entire field.
Triple-click Text to select an entire line (or paragraph) of text.
When the cursor is inside any place field or the Last Name field... |
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Ditto Shortcut Duplicates the last entry you made in the same field for a different person. This only applies to place fields and the Last Name field. |
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Increments/decrements by 1. |
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Increments/decrements by 10. |
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Enters lowest/highest possible entry. |
List window shortcut |
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To show a person in the family view, and move the List window behind the family view, Option-double-click any name in the List window. |
Edit Person panel shortcut |
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Single-click |
General Source (at the bottom of the Edit Person panel) to show the Name section, where general sources are entered and edited. |
These shortcuts are available only in the family view.
To perform a letter-key shortcut, simply type some letters and press or . These commands do not use a modifier key such as the Command or Control key. When you type the letter-key shortcuts, you'll see them appear in the left edge of the bottom bar (at the bottom of the Reunion app window). Being mnemonic, they are easy to remember. These shortcuts are case sensitive and do not support diacritical marks (such as é).
Note: Reunion's default behavior is to always put the cursor into the search box at the top of the sidebar. So, if the cursor is blinking in the search box (at the top of the sidebar) and you want to do a letter-key shortcut, press the Tab key to take the cursor OUT of the search box and into a mode where Reunion is waiting for letter-key shortcuts.
If you like using letter-key shortcuts — for example, to streamline the process of adding children to families — you can change the default cursor behavior so that Reunion will not automatically move the cursor into the search box when returning to the family view. To change this behavior, use the letter-key shortcut: plks (and press the Return key). A quick confirming message will appear in the bottom bar. The behavior may be changed back to the default by using the same shortcut again.
nmc |
New male child |
nfc |
New female child |
nuc |
New child of unknown sex |
nh |
New husband |
nw |
New wife |
nhf |
New husband's father |
nhm |
New husband's mother |
nwf |
New wife's father |
nwm |
New wife's mother |
um |
Unrelated male |
uf |
Unrelated female |
uu |
Unrelated unknown sex |
All of the above shortcuts can be used with an optional name. For example, nmcLeroy/Brown would create a new child named Leroy Brown. The syntax for name is: given name(s)/optional surname. | |
mcs |
Add male child from the sidebar |
fcs |
Add female child from the sidebar |
ucs |
Add unknown sex child from the sidebar |
hs |
Add husband from the sidebar |
ws |
Add wife from the sidebar |
hfs |
Add husband's father from the sidebar |
hms |
Add husband's mother from the sidebar |
wfs |
Add wife's father from the sidebar |
wms |
Add wife's mother from the sidebar |
All of the above shortcuts are used to add an existing person by opening the People sidebar. However, if you know the ID number of the person you want to link, you can use these shortcuts with an ID number. For example, to add a male child ID number 45, to the current family, type mcs45 and press Return. | |
h |
Edit husband's name |
w |
Edit wife's name |
he |
Husband's events |
we |
Wife's events |
hn |
Husband's notes |
wn |
Wife's notes |
fn |
Family's notes |
m |
Marriage |
ci |
Contact Info |
ec |
Edit children |
esh | Edit spouses of husband |
esw |
Edit spouses of wife |
eph | Edit parents of husband |
epw |
Edit parents of wife |
hp |
To husband's parents |
wp |
To wife's parents |
hns |
To husband's next spouse |
wns |
To wife's next spouse |
b |
Back |
f |
Forward |
t |
Tree View |
find |
Find |
af |
Advanced Find |
mg |
Mark (groups and sets) |
log |
Logs |
p |
People sidebar |
s |
Sources sidebar |
mm |
Multimedia sidebar |
rel |
Relatives sidebar |
ag |
Ages sidebar |
pl |
Places sidebar |
res |
Results sidebar |
bm |
Bookmarks sidebar |
tt | Treetops sidebar |
cb |
Clipboard sidebar |
cal |
Calendar sidebar |
rem | Reminders sidebar |
con |
Contacts sidebar |
isl |
Islands sidebar |
mh |
Mark/unmark husband |
mw |
Mark/unmark wife |
me | Mark everybody |
ue | Unmark everybody |
c1 |
To 1st child |
c2 |
To 2nd child |
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ac |
Charts > Ancestor chart |
dc |
Charts > Descendant chart |
fc |
Charts > Fan chart |
rc |
Charts > Relative chart |
tc |
Charts > Timeline chart |
cp | Charts > Cascading Pedigree |
bc | Charts > Bowtie chart |
hc | Charts > Hourglass chart |
xc | Charts > Everybody chart |
ps |
Reports > Person Sheet |
fg |
Reports > Family Group Sheet |
bf |
Reports > Blank Forms |
fh |
Reports > Family History |
rr |
Reports > Register |
ar |
Reports > Ancestor |
dr |
Reports > Descendant |
book |
Reports > Book |
web |
Reports > Web Project |
obit |
Reports > Obituary |
ln | Reports > Last Names |
stat | Reports > Statistics |
otd | Reports > On This Date |
mu | Reports > Multimedia Usage |
lp |
List > People |
ls |
List > Sources |
lx |
List > Connections |
lc |
List > Citations |
lc[x] |
List > Citations to source number x |
le |
List > Events |
ll |
List > Places |
lf |
List > Results |
ld | List > Calendar |
lu | List > Couples |
lo | List > Contacts |
ly | List > Feasibility |
rp |
Reunion Settings |
pg |
Settings > General |
pd |
Settings > Dates |
pi |
Settings > Child Status |
pf |
Settings > Fields |
po |
Settings > Folders |
pm | Settings > Multimedia Files |
pp | Settings > Privacy |
pr | Settings > Reports |
pb | Settings > Startup |
pe | Settings > Sources |
ph | Settings > Slideshows |
pv | Settings > Family Views |
pw | Settings > Web |
dl |
Change > Direct lines bold |
n | Change > Numbering |
sf |
Change > Set flags |
sg |
Change > Set general sources |
sc |
Change > Sort children |
cc | Change > Case |
px |
Show/hide preferred picture |
gi |
Get Information |
cl |
Change Log |
ss |
Sharing Status |
tn |
Thumbnails |
s[x] |
Show source number x |
? |
Opens the manual window to a page relating to what appears in the middle of the Reunion window. This shortcut can also be used with words. For example, to search for help on "leap years" type ?leap year and hit the Return key. |
plks |
Toggles the placement of the cursor when returning to the family view. The cursor can appear in the search box (default) or the cursor can be hidden, meaning Reunion is immediately ready for the next letter-key shortcut to be typed. |
hb | Add husband to the currently selected bookmarks set |
wb | Add wife to the currently selected bookmarks set |
fp | Find person ID# |
ff | Find family ID# |
gp |
Find person ID# (known as "Go person" in older versions of Reunion) |
gf |
Find family ID# (known as "Go family" in older versions of Reunion) |
The above two shortcuts can be used with an ID number. For example, to go to person ID 53, type fp53 and press Return. Without an ID number, the shortcuts simply open the Find ID# window. |
a | Select all objects |
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b | Locate starting box | ||
c | Copy selected objects |
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d | Duplicate selected objects (images, shapes, and text objects) |
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e | Everything to center |
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f | Find text |
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g | Find next |
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h | Hide Reunion |
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i | Get Info |
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k | Colors |
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l | Lines - tree charts only |
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m | Frame title |
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o | Open |
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p | Print |
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q | Quit |
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r | Orientation - tree charts only |
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s | Save |
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t | Tool panel (show/hide) |
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v | Paste |
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w | Close |
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x | Cut |
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z | Undo |
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1 | Zoom 1:1 |
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- | Zoom out |
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+ | Zoom in |
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5 | Zoom to 50% |
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> | Increase text size in selected boxes or frame title |
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< | Decrease text size in selected boxes or frame title |
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click & drag |
Scrolls a chart — the cursor becomes a "grabber hand" | |
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click |
Any chart object to see a menu of commands specific to the clicked object | |
double-click |
Anywhere on a chart (except on an object) to zoom in and out | ||
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double-click |
A box to delete the box and its branch |
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double-click |
A picture, text object, bar, or perspective event to delete the object |
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choose |
menu command to bypass the window and redraw the chart in the previously selected orientation | |
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drag | Text objects, images, and shapes to duplicate |
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f b | Layer front |
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Layer back |
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r | Orientation - tree charts only — this will redraw the chart using the previous settings of the Orientation window |
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Space horizontally |
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Space vertically |
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Scrolls to upper-left corner of chart |
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Scrolls to lower-right corner of chart |
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Scrolls up one screen |
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Scrolls down one screen |
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Scrolls left/right one column |
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Scrolls up/down one line |
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Deselects selected objects |