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Text keyboard shortcuts (OS X)
Use text keyboard shortcuts to edit and format text in fields and text on a layout.
Text deletion keyboard shortcuts
You can use these shortcuts in Browse, Layout, and Find modes.
Note  The Forward Delete key is located under the Help key on most OS X extended keyboards.
 
To delete the
Press
Next character
Forward Delete
Next word
Option-Forward Delete
Previous character
Delete
Previous word
Option-Delete
Text from the insertion point to the beginning of the line
Command-Delete
Text editing keyboard shortcuts
You can use these keyboard shortcuts to edit field and layout text and to work with find requests.
 
To
Press
Clear selected text
Delete
Copy selected text
Command-C
Copy all text in a record
Command-C with no objects selected
Copy all records in the found set to the Clipboard in text form
Command-Option-C with no objects selected
Cut selected text
Command-X
Paste
Command-V
Paste text only
Command-Shift-Option-V
Undo
Command-Z
Redo
Command-Y or Command-Shift-Z
Exit text edit mode
Enter (numeric keypad)
Find/replace data
Command-Shift-F
Find the next occurrence of the specified data
Command-G
Reverse the current direction of a Find Again operation
Command-Shift-G
Replace the Find what data with the Replace with data, then search for and select the next occurrence
Command-Option-G
Reverse the current direction of a Replace & Find Again operation
Command-Shift-Option-G
Find the next occurrence of the selected data in the database
Command-Option-I
Reverse the current direction of a Find Selected operation
Command-Shift-
Option-I
Insert a non-breaking space
Option-Space bar
Insert a tab in a field or move the insertion point to the next tab stop
Option-Tab
Open the Spelling dialog box when alerted of a misspelled word
Command-Shift-Y
Note  If the current Find/Replace direction is Forward or All, the reverse keyboard shortcut switches the direction to Backward. If the current Find/Replace direction is Backward, the reverse keyboard shortcut switches the direction to Forward.
Text formatting keyboard shortcuts
Use these shortcuts to format text in fields, field labels, and text objects in Browse and Layout modes.
Text alignment keyboard shortcuts
 
To align text
Press
Center
Command- \
Left
Command- [
Right
Command- ]
Justified
Command-Shift- \
Text style keyboard shortcuts
 
To style text
Press
Bold
Command-Shift-B
Italic
Command-Shift-I
Plain
Command-Shift-P
Subscript
Command-Shift- - (hyphen)
Superscript
Command-Shift- =
Underline
Command-Shift-U
Text size keyboard shortcuts
 
To change point size
Press
Up one point
Command-Option-Shift->
Down one point
Command-Option-Shift-<
The next point size up on the menu
Command-Shift->
The next point size down on the menu
Command-Shift-<
Text navigation keyboard shortcuts
You can use these keyboard shortcuts in Browse, Layout, and Find modes to move the insertion point to different areas of a text field or label.
 
To move the insertion
point to the
Press
Beginning of the text
Command-Up Arrow
End of the text
Command-Down Arrow
Beginning of the line
Command-Left Arrow
End of the line
Command-Right Arrow
Beginning of the previous word
Option-Left Arrow
End of the next word
Option-Right Arrow
Previous character
Left Arrow
Next character
Right Arrow
Previous line
Up Arrow
Next line
Down Arrow
Text selection keyboard shortcuts
You can use these shortcuts in Browse, Layout, and Find modes to extend the selection in a field.
 
To extend selection to the
Press
Beginning of the line
Command-Shift-Left Arrow
Beginning of the previous word
Option-Shift-Left Arrow
Beginning of text
Command-Option-Shift-Up Arrow
End of the line
Command-Shift-Right Arrow
End of the next word
Option-Shift-Right Arrow
End of text
Command-Option-Shift-Down Arrow
Next character
Shift-Right Arrow
Next line
Command-Shift-Down Arrow
Previous character
Shift-Left Arrow
Previous line
Command-Shift-Up Arrow
Entire contents of the active field
Command-A
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