Text keyboard shortcuts (macOS)

Use text keyboard shortcuts to edit and format text in fields and text on a layout.

Text deletion keyboard shortcuts

Use these keyboard shortcuts in Browse, Layout, and Find modes.

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

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 editing

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 nonbreaking 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 keyboard 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

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

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

Use these keyboard 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