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Keyboard shortcuts

Useful keyboard shortcuts when working the the Editor. Including: inserting special characters, inserting provisions, navigating around the document and accessing functions.

Special characters

Type in

Summary

-- (dash dash)

creates an em-dash (–)

Inserting provisions and paragraphs

Keyboard shortcut

Summary

Enter

Brings up the Content Completion Assistant (CCA) which will contain a list of valid elements that can be insertable according to the element/provision you are currently in (see ‘Valid elements’ for explanation of what has been implemented).  The Editor will insert your selected provision/element at the next correct place making sure the XML is correctly structured

Ctrl + Enter

Inserts the next default provision from the CCA (same as pressing Enter + Enter)

Shift + Enter

Inserts an extra text element within the current provision

Standard Editor shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut

Summary

Ctrl + z

Undo a change

Ctrl + y

Redo a change

Ctrl + c

Copy

Ctrl + x

Cut

Ctrl + v

Paste

Ctrl + f

Find (and replace)

Ctrl + s

Save document

Text formatting

Keyboard shortcut

Summary

Ctrl + b

Bold

Ctrl + i

Italic

Ctrl + u

Underline

Ctrl + Shift + +

Superscript

Ctrl + Shift + -

Subscript

Lawmaker-specific shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut

Summary

Alt + [

Promote provision

Alt + ]

Demote provision

Alt + u

Update x-refs

Alt + n

Renumber

Alt + l

Lock/unlock number

Alt + w

Wrap selected provision(s)

Alt + e

Unwrap selected provision

Alt + t

Tag x-refs in current provision

Alt + s

Split current provision into two similar provisions

Alt + r

Refreshes your document if another user has saved changes since you've had the document open

Alt + j

Insert or update j-ref in current provision

Ctrl + q

Insert a quoted structure (textual amendment)

Tab

Skip to the next element in the Editor

Shift + tab

Skip to the previous element in the Editor

Structure view

Keyboard shortcut

Summary

Ctrl + mouse click

Multi-select using the Structure View

mouse right click

Shows context menu for provision

Amendments

Keyboard shortcut

Summary

Alt + k

Move to next amendment in the list in the Editor

Alt + h

Move to previous amendment in the list in the Editor

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