Creating shortcuts for toolbar commands

You can set keyboard shortcuts for the commands on toolbars. 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 toolbar command

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

The Toolbars section opens.

The Groups list shows the toolbars in the program as they are available in your configuration.

Groups	shows the toolbars in the program as they are available in your configuration
Actions	A specific functionality
Shortcuts	The current keyboard shortcut associated with the action.
Menu Path	How to do the same action using the program's menus. For example, Objects | Lines | Line, means, "On the Objects menu, point to Lines, and then click Line".

2. In the Groups list, select the toolbar where you will be setting a shortcut.
3. Select the command for which you want to set a shortcut. This highlights the row.

4. 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.

5. 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 command, which is shown in the row below (pictured).

3. Consider a solution:

• To delete the earlier shortcut and set the new one, click Reset. 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 command.

In the shorcuts list, the newly set keyboard shortcut appears in the Shortcuts column.

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