Keyboard Shortcut Settings

See also: Mouse Usage Hints Note: Keyboard Short Cuts are completely customizable and can be exported for use on other machines under the Keyboard Preferences.

Default Keyboard Shortcuts for Scribus 1.5+

Function Keys

Function

Shortcut

Show Help Manual

F1

Show Properties Palette

F2

Edit Styles

F3

Show Layers Palette

F6

Toggle All Guides

F11

Toggle All Palettes

F12

Listed in Logical Groups (as in Preferences)

Function

Shortcut

File

New

Ctrl+N

New from Template

Ctrl+Alt+N

Open

Ctrl+O

Close

Ctrl+W

Save

Ctrl+S

Save As

Ctrl+Shift+S

Get Text or Image depending on selection

Ctrl+I

Print

Ctrl+P

Print Preview

Ctrl+Alt+P

Quit

Ctrl+Q

Edit

Undo

Ctrl+Z

Redo

Ctrl+Shift+Z

Cut

Ctrl+X

Copy

Ctrl+C

Paste

Ctrl+V

Copy Contents (Images Only)

Ctrl+Shift+C

Paste Contents (Images Only)

Ctrl+Shift+V

Paste Absolute Contents (Images Only)

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V

Select All

Ctrl+A

Advanced Select All

Ctrl+Alt+A

Deselect All

Ctrl+Shift+A

Search/Replace

Ctrl+F

Edit Text

Ctrl+T

Styles

F3

Image Effects

Ctrl+E

Item

Duplicate

Ctrl+D

Delete Item

Ctrl+K

Group

Ctrl+G

Ungroup

Ctrl+Shift+G

Is Locked

Ctrl+L

Size is Locked

Ctrl+Shift+L

Raise

Ctrl+Home

Lower

Ctrl+End

Raise to top

Home

Lower to bottom

End

Insert

Text Frame

T

Image Frame

I

Shape

S

Polygon

P

Line

L

Bezier Curve

B

Freehand Line

F

Render Frame

D

Soft Hyphen

Ctrl+Shift+(-)

Non Breaking Dash

Ctrl+Alt+(-)

Non Breaking Space

Ctrl+Space

Page Number

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P

New Line

Shift+Return

Frame Break

Ctrl+Return

Column Break

Ctrl+Shift+Return

View

Fit to Height

Ctrl+0 (zero)

Zoom to 100%

Ctrl+1

Preview Mode

Ctrl+Alt+P

Show Rulers

Ctrl+Shift+R

Plugin Menu Items

Save as Template

Ctrl+Alt+S

Save as Image

Ctrl+Shift+E

Others

Select Tool

C

Rotate Tool

R

Zoom Tool

Z

Zoom In

Ctrl+(+)

Zoom Out

Ctrl+(-)

Edit Contents Mode

E

Link Frames

L

Unlink Frames

U

Eye Dropper

Y

Insert Unicode Character Value

Ctrl+Shift+U

Stacked Objects, next in Z-order*

Ctrl+Shift+LMouse

Resize proportionally

Ctrl+drag**

Move frame/group with X/Y constrained***

Ctrl+drag

Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation

Ctrl+drag and rotate

Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and
constrain the angle of rotation****

Ctrl+drag and rotate

* Cycles Top-Middle-Bottom-None, then repeats starting at top

** Make sure you let up on the mouse before letting up on Ctrl

*** Meaning you can only drag in X or Y direction, not both, for each click-move-unclick

**** You need to activate Rotation first (toolbar or keyboard R)

You can constrain objects when re-sizing them with Ctrl+drag. Constraining keeps the aspect ratio the same as the original shape.

Story Editor

Esc

Closes Story Editor

Ctrl+W

Save Changes and Close Story Editor

Ctrl+S

Save File While Editing in Story Editor

Moving and Re-sizing Frames using Arrow Keys

The following are for points, millimeters, picas*, centimeters, ciceros

Arrow keys

Move item 1 unit

Ctrl+Arrow

Move item 10 units

Shift+Arrow

Move item 0.1 units

Ctrl+Shift+Arrow

Move item 0.01 units

* Movement units for picas are points

The following are for inches

Arrow keys

Move item 0.139 units**

Ctrl+Arrow

Move item 1 unit

Shift+Arrow

Move item 0.1 units

Ctrl+Shift+Arrow

Move item 0.01 units

** This is about 10 points

Enlarging/Shrinking Frames***

Alt+Right Arrow

Enlarges by moving right side outward

Alt+Left Arrow

Enlarges by moving left side outward

Alt+Up Arrow

Enlarges by moving top side outward

Alt+Down Arrow

Enlarges by moving bottom side outward

Shift+Alt+Right Arrow

Shrinks by moving left side inward

Shift+Alt+Left Arrow

Shrinks by moving right side inward

Shift+Alt+Up Arrow

Shrinks by moving bottom side inward

Shift+Alt+Down Arrow

Shrinks by moving top side inward

*** Amount of movement is one unit, but for picas, movements are one point

Formerly, if you also held Ctrl, amount of enlarging/shrinking was larger, but currently this only moves the frame.

Resizing and Moving Images in Edit Contents Mode

The amount of movement is numerically independent of units but dependent on scaling of the image, and therefore is greatest with a unit of inches.

Shift

Ctrl

Shift+Ctrl

Movement:

0.1 × Scaling

0.01 × Scaling

0.001 × Scaling

Example

48.1% Scale:

4.81 units

0.481 units

0.0481 units

Clearly, with units of inches, one would need to be careful. Furthermore, note that if your X-Scale is different from Y-Scale, the movement will be different in each direction, again according to this calculation.

Selection/Navigation Keys

Holding Shift while Left clicking add objects to current selection, for multiple selection.

Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Characters

Ctrl+Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Words

Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down selects to beginning/end of paragraph

Shift+Home selects Text back to the beginning of the line

Shift+End selects Text to the end of the line

Ctrl+Right/Left Arrow moves to the next/previous Word

Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow moves to the beginning/end of current paragraph or the previous/next paragraph

PgUp/PgDn moves to beginning/end of current frame.

Ctrl+Alt+Click selects a single Object out of a Groups