Creating shortcuts for menu commands

You can set keyboard shortcuts for commands on menus. You can set shortcuts to the commands that you expect to work with most often, and leave without shortcuts those you will not use frequently.

To set a keyboard shortcut for a menu command

1. On the Tools menu, click Preferences, click the Shortcuts node, and then click Menus.

The Menus section opens.

The list that you see shows nodes that represent all the main menus in the program.

2. Click the node that holds the command for which you want to set a shortcut, and then select the command. This highlights the row.

3. Press CTRL and then press the key that you want to use for the shortcut.

TIP: You can press multiple keys for the shortcut: hold down CTRL and press them one after the other. Watch the respective letters appear in the Shortcut box.

4. The new shortcut appears in the Shortcut box. Here, you can have two cases:
• EngView accepts the chosen shortcut. This completes the procedure.
• The shortcut is already set for some other mode or command, which is shown in the row below (pictured).

5. Consider a solution:

• To delete the earlier shortcut and set the new one, click Reset. This removes the earlier shortcut. Then enter the new shortcut again.

Note that the command whose shortcut you have just reset no longer has its own keyboard shortcut. If you want it to have one, you will need to set it yourself.

• Choose a new keyboard combination for the mode.

The newly set keyboard shortcut appears in the Shortcuts column.

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