PagePlus

Using shortcuts

The following shortcuts will help you to work more efficiently and get the most out of PagePlus.

• Shortcuts involving upper-case or lower-right characters on alternative keyboard layouts will not function.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Press Page Up to display the previous page.

• Press Page Down to display the next page.

Function-key shortcuts

F1		Display the Help Contents screen
F5		Fill with placeholder text
F7		Run the Spell Checker
Shift+F7		(with text selected) View the Thesaurus

Alt-key shortcut

Press Alt +	To…
A	Show Arrange menu
b	Show Table menu
E	Show Edit menu
F	Show File menu
H	Show Help menu
I	Show Insert menu
o	Show Format menu
T	Show Tools menu
V	Show View menu
W	Show Window menu
X	Toggle character codes (e.g., from h to U+0068)
Enter	Adds Frame Break

To select an item from a displayed menu:

• Press the key underlined in the menu item. For example, pressing Alt+F+S is the same as choosing Save from the File menu.

Shift-key shortcuts

• Moving: When moving an object in PagePlus, click on the object, hold down the mouse button then press the Shift key to constrain the movement to horizontal or vertical. To switch directions, release and then press the Shift  key again.

• Creating and resizing: In general, hold down the Shift key while dragging to constrain the operation. When drawing a line, the line angle will be a multiple of 15°. With a Quick Rectangle, you’ll get a square; with a Quick Ellipse, a circle, and so on.

  For pictures, however, the behavior is reversed: drag with no Shift key to preserve the aspect ratio (proportion) of the picture; hold down the Shift key while dragging for free resizing.

  Lines can also be extended while preserving their direction—select the line and then click a Line tool. Click on the line end (hold the mouse button down with the Shift key pressed) and drag to extend the line.

• Selecting objects: To add or subtract an object from a multiple selection, hold down the Shift key and click on the object. The other objects in the multiple selection remain selected.  To select all non-text objects of one type on the page (or master page), hold down the Ctrl key and double-click one object of that type.

• Selecting a text region: To highlight a region of text, click once for an insertion point, then Shift-cl
  ick to mark the end of the selection region.

• QuickShapes: Normally, the selected tool reverts to the Pointer after you draw a QuickShape. To retain the QuickShape Tool after drawing, hold down the Shift key when you first click the button. This is useful, for example, if you want to draw a series of QuickShapes. To prevent the same QuickShape being drawn again, click on another QuickShape.

• Tables: Press Shift+Tab to move to the cell in the previous column. Press Tab to move to the cell in the next column. (Or use the keyboard arrows.)

• Use the Thesaurus: With text selected, press Shift+F7.

• Line breaks: Click in text for a insertion point and press Shift+Enter.

Ctrl (Control)-key shortcuts

Press Ctrl +	To…
A	Select all objects on page
B	Apply/remove bold attribute
C	Copy to Clipboard
D	Display font attributes
E	Edit selected story (text frame or artistic text object) in WritePlus
F	Run Find & Replace
G	Display the Import Picture dialog
I	Apply/remove italic attribute
K	Insert hyperlink
L	Paste from Clipboard with special formatting
M	Display paragraph alignment
N	Open a new publication
O	Open an existing publication
P	Print publication
Alt+O	Open Saved Work
Alt+P	Display Print Preview
R	Insert a bookmark
S	Save publication
Alt+S	Save publication under new name
T	Import text file into selected frame
U	Apply/remove underline attribute
V	Paste from Clipboard
Alt+V	Paste in place (same page position)
Shift+V	Paste Format (all attributes)
Shift+Alt+V	Paste Format Plus (selected attributes)
X	Cut to Clipboard
Y	Redo last action
Z	Undo last action
Delete	Delete object
Enter	Insert column break
Shift+ Enter	Insert page break
Tab	Switch between open PagePlus windows; (if insertion point in table) insert a tab character
any number	Switch to a particular Zoom view (e.g. 1 = 100%). For specifics, see the View menu.
=	Toggle in/out of subscript entry mode (selected text only)
Shift+G	Enter Trimmed Page Mode
Shift+”-”	Insert/remove hyphenation point
Shift+=	Toggle in/out of superscript entry mode (selected text only)
Shift+Up	Forward One (in object Z-order)
Shift+Down	Back One (in object Z-order)
Alt+X	Fit text in selected frame (once-off)
Alt + ‘+’	Increase kerning
Alt+ ‘-’	Decrease kerning

 

• Duplicating: To duplicate a selected object, press the Ctrl and drag the duplicate to a new location.

Character shortcuts

To insert a special character in a standard font, use the keyboard shortcut listed below.

For alternative keyboard layouts (e.g., AZERTY), if a character shortcut does not function on your keyboard layout, use Insert>Symbol instead. See Inserting a symbol for more information.

Keyboard	Char	Char Name
Ctrl+Alt+8	·	Bullet
Ctrl+Alt+D	†	Dagger
Ctrl+Alt+C	©	Copyright symbol
Ctrl+Alt+R	®	Registered symbol
Ctrl+Alt+T	™	Trademark symbol
Ctrl+Alt+4	€	Euro symbol (European keyboards)
Ctrl+Alt+M	‘ ‘	Em space (equal to point size of typeface)
Ctrl+Alt+N	‘ ‘	En space (equal to half of point size)
Ctrl+Alt+U	-	En Dash
Ctrl+Alt+Y	—	Em Dash
Ctrl+Shift+Space		Non-breaking space
Ctrl+Shift+S	“other”	Brings up the Insert Symbol dialog

Esc (Escape)-key shortcut

• Cancelling operations: To cancel a sizing, moving, or creation operation in the middle of the operation, press the Esc key.

Customizing keyboard shortcuts

PagePlus allows you to create your own shortcuts for your commonly used functions. These shortcuts must be stored in a created individual
User profile. PagePlus will remember which profile was in use when it was last used. If you have several shortcut profiles for different users, you may have to manually select the correct profile before you begin work.

To add a new keyboard shortcut:

1. Click on  Options from the Pages context toolbar.
   – or -

   Go to Tools>Options…

2. Select the User Interface>Keyboard menu item.

3. (Optional) To add a new profile click New. Give the profile a name and ensure that it is based on “Default”. This will copy all current shortcuts to the new profile. Click OK.
   – or -

   Select the profile that you wish to change from the drop-down list.

4. Select a PagePlus feature from the Context drop-down menu.

5. In the Context drop-down menu, Menus and Toolbars refers to the main PagePlus workspace—the other menu items refer to a separate feature (WritePlus, LogoStudio, etc.). Each feature’s shortcuts are completely independent. For example, CTRL + G imports a picture within the main workspace, but within Image Cutout Studio it controls Enable Grow Tolerance.

5. (Optional) Expand the relevant menu.

6. Click on the tool or function to select it.

7. Click in the box labeled Press new shortcut key and press the key combination that you want to assign to the function (e.g., ALT + M).

8. If the shortcut keys are already assigned to another function, that function will be displayed in the Already assigned to box. To choose another key combination, or you make a mistake, re-enter your chosen key combination.

9. Click Assign. The new shortcut will be shown in the Shortcuts box. It will also appear in the tooltip if you have this option turned on.

10. Even if the key combination is already assigned somewhere else, clicking Assign will reassign it to the currently selected function.

10. Repeat the process (Steps 4 to 9) for each shortcut required in the profile.

11. Once all assignments are made, either click the Save button, or press OK and select Yes when prompted to save your new profile.
    – or -

    Click Cancel to ignore the changes.

To remove a shortcut

1. Click on  Options from the Pages context toolbar.
   – or -

   Go to Tools>Options…

2. Select the User Interface>Keyboard menu item.

3. From the Profile drop-down list, select the profile that you want to change.

4. Select a PagePlus feature from the Context drop-down menu.

5. (Optional) Expand the relevant menu.

6. Click on the tool or function to select it. The currently assigned shortcuts combinations will be listed in the Shortcuts box.

7. In the Shortcuts box, highlight the shortcut that you want to delete and click Remove. To delete all shortcut combinations associated to that function, click Clear.

8. Click OK and Yes when prompted to save the changes.
   – or -

   Click Cancel to ignore the changes.

To delete a user profile

1. Click on  Options from the Pages context toolbar.
   – or -

   Go to Tools>Options…

2. Select the User Interface>Keyboard menu item.

3. From the Profile drop-down list, select the profile that you want to delete.

4. Click Delete and then click Yes to confirm when prompted.

5. You cannot change or delete the Default profile.

Using shortcuts