## Keyboard Shortcut Settings

See also: Mouse Usage Hints Note: Keyboard Short Cuts are completely customizable and can be exported for use on other machines under the Keyboard Preferences.

### Default Keyboard Shortcuts for Scribus 1.4+

### Function Keys

Function | Shortcut
Show Help Manual | F1
Show Properties Palette | F2
Edit Styles | F3
Show Layers Palette | F6
Toggle All Guides | F11
Toggle All Palettes | F12

### Listed in Logical Groups (as in Preferences)

Function | Shortcut
File
New | Ctrl+N
New from Template | Ctrl+Alt+N
Open | Ctrl+O
Close | Ctrl+W
Save | Ctrl+S
Save As | Ctrl+Shift+S
Get Text or Image depending on selection | Ctrl+I
Print | Ctrl+P
Print Preview | Ctrl+Alt+P
Quit | Ctrl+Q
Edit
Undo | Ctrl+Z
Redo | Ctrl+Shift+Z
Cut | Ctrl+X
Copy | Ctrl+C
Paste | Ctrl+V
Copy Contents (Images Only) | Ctrl+Shift+C
Paste Contents (Images Only) | Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste Absolute Contents (Images Only) | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V
Select All | Ctrl+A
Advanced Select All | Ctrl+Alt+A
Deselect All | Ctrl+Shift+A
Search/Replace | Ctrl+F
Edit Text | Ctrl+T
Styles | F3
Image Effects | Ctrl+E
Item
Duplicate | Ctrl+D
Multiple Duplicate | Ctrl+Shift+D
Delete Item | Ctrl+K
Group | Ctrl+G
Ungroup | Ctrl+Shift+G
Is Locked | Ctrl+L
Size is Locked | Ctrl+Shift+L
Raise | Ctrl+Home
Lower | Ctrl+End
Raise to top | Home
Lower to bottom | End
Insert
Text Frame | T
Image Frame | I
Shape | S
Polygon | P
Line | L
Bezier Curve | B
Freehand Line | F
Render Frame | D
Soft Hyphen | Ctrl+Shift+(-)
Non Breaking Dash | Ctrl+Alt+(-)
Non Breaking Space | Ctrl+Space
Page Number | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P
New Line | Shift+Return
Frame Break | Ctrl+Return
Column Break | Ctrl+Shift+Return
View
Fit to Height | Ctrl+0 (zero)
Zoom to 100% | Ctrl+1
Preview Mode | Ctrl+Alt+P
Show Rulers | Ctrl+Shift+R
Plugin Menu Items
Save as Template | Ctrl+Alt+S
Save as Image | Ctrl+Shift+E
Others
Select Tool | C
Rotate Tool | R
Zoom Tool | Z
Zoom In | Ctrl+(+)
Zoom Out | Ctrl+(-)
Edit Contents Mode | E
Link Frames | L
Unlink Frames | U
Eye Dropper | Y
Insert Unicode Character Value | Ctrl+Shift+U
Stacked Objects, next in Z-order* | Ctrl+Shift+LMouse
Resize proportionally | Ctrl+drag**
Move frame/group with X/Y constrained*** | Ctrl+drag
Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation | Ctrl+drag and rotate
Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and constrain the angle of rotation**** | Ctrl+drag and rotate

* Cycles Top-Middle-Bottom-None, then repeats starting at top
** Make sure you let up on the mouse before letting up on Ctrl
*** Meaning you can only drag in X or Y direction, not both, for each click-move-unclick
**** You need to activate Rotation first (toolbar or keyboard R)

You can constrain objects when re-sizing them with Ctrl+drag. Constraining keeps the aspect ratio the same as the original shape.

### Story Editor

Esc | Closes Story Editor
Ctrl+W | Save Changes and Close Story Editor
Ctrl+S | Save File While Editing in Story Editor

### Moving and Re-sizing Frames using Arrow Keys

The following are for points, millimeters, picas*, centimeters, ciceros
Arrow keys | Move item 1 unit
Ctrl+Arrow | Move item 10 units
Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.1 units
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.01 units
* Movement units for picas are points
The following are for inches
Arrow keys | Move item 0.139 units**
Ctrl+Arrow | Move item 1 unit
Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.1 units
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow | Move item 0.01 units

** This is about 10 points

Enlarging/Shrinking Frames***
Alt+Right Arrow | Enlarges by moving right side outward
Alt+Left Arrow | Enlarges by moving left side outward
Alt+Up Arrow | Enlarges by moving top side outward
Alt+Down Arrow | Enlarges by moving bottom side outward
Shift+Alt+Right Arrow | Shrinks by moving left side inward
Shift+Alt+Left Arrow | Shrinks by moving right side inward
Shift+Alt+Up Arrow | Shrinks by moving bottom side inward
Shift+Alt+Down Arrow | Shrinks by moving top side inward

*** Amount of movement is one unit, but for picas, movements are one point Formerly, if you also held Ctrl, amount of enlarging/shrinking was larger, but currently this only moves the frame.

### Resizing and Moving Images in Edit Contents Mode

- Holding down Alt

- Right-arrow or Down-arrow enlarge image (Scaling goes up, X-Pos and Y-Pos are unchanged)
- Left-arrow or Up-arrow shrink image

- Holding down no modifier, or Shift, or Ctrl, or Shift+Ctrl
  (Image moves, not frame)

- Right-arrow moves image to right (increases X-Pos)
- Left-arrow moves image to left (decreases X-Pos)
- Up-arrow moves image up (decreases Y-Pos)
- Down-arrow moves image down (increases Y-Pos)
- The relative amounts of movement:
  Shift > Ctrl = no key > Shift+Ctrl

The amount of movement is numerically independent of units but dependent on scaling of the image, and therefore is greatest with a unit of inches.

| Shift | Ctrl | Shift+Ctrl
Movement: | 0.1 × Scaling | 0.01 × Scaling | 0.001 × Scaling
Example
48.1% Scale: | 4.81 units | 0.481 units | 0.0481 units

Clearly, with units of inches, one would need to be careful. Furthermore, note that if your X-Scale is different from Y-Scale, the movement will be different in each direction, again according to this calculation.

### Selection/Navigation Keys

Holding Shift while Left clicking adds objects to current selection, for multiple selection.

Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Characters

Ctrl+Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Words

Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down selects to beginning/end of paragraph

Shift+Home selects Text back to the beginning of the line

Shift+End selects Text to the end of the line

Ctrl+Right/Left Arrow moves to the next/previous Word

Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow moves to the beginning/end of current paragraph or the previous/next paragraph

PgUp/PgDn moves to beginning/end of current frame.

Ctrl+Alt+Click selects a single Object out of a Groups