Keyboard Shortcuts
Designing patchbays and making beautiful labels with PatchCAD is easy and fast thanks to its no-distraction user interface, powerful templates and automation tools. But productivity can be enhanced further with the use of PatchCAD’s keyboard shortcuts. All major and popular editing functions have a dedicated logical keyboard shortcut for quick and efficient use.
While in the main editor window of PatchCAD, you can press F10 to bring up the keyboard shortcuts list window and position it anywhere on the screen to have as a reminder while you familiarise yourself with the available shortcuts.
Project Management
- Ctrl + Shift + N – New Project
- Ctrll + O – Open Project
- Ctrl + S – Save Project
- Ctrl + Shift + S – Save Project As
- Ctrl+P – Print
Patchbay
- Ctrl + N – Add Patchbay
- Ctrl + Down Arrow – Navigate to Next Patchbay
- Ctrl + Up Arrow – Navigate to Previous Patchbay
Preview
- F8 – Preview On/Off
- Ctrl + Plus – Zoom In
- Ctrl + Minus – Zoom Out
Text Formatting
- Ctrl + B – Bold
- Ctrl + I – Italic
- Ctrl + U – Underline
- Ctrl + ] – Increase Font Size
- Ctrl + [ – Decrease Font Size
Cells Operations
- Ctrl + J – Merge Cells
- Ctrl + Shift + J – Unmerge Cells
- Ctrl + D – Toggle All Border Outside Selection
- Ctrl + 8 – Auto-Complete Selection
- Ctrl + 9 – Auto-Number Selection
- Ctrl + 0 – Auto-Letter Selection
Normalling
- Ctrl + 1 – Fully-Normal Selection
- Ctrl + 2 – Half-Normal Selection
- Ctrl + 3 – Parallel-Normal Selection
- Ctrl + 4 – Clear Normalling for Selection
Editing
- F2 – Edit Cell
- Enter / Tab – Move selection forward
- Shift + Enter / Shift + Tab – Move selection backward
- Up – Move selection upward
- Down – Move selection downward
- Left – Move selection leftward
- Right – Move selection rightward
- Shift + Up – Move focus cell upward to expand current selection
- Shift + Down – Move focus cell downward to expend current selection
- Shift + Left – Move focus cell leftward to expend current selection
- Shift + Right – Move focus cell rightward to expend current selection
- Ctrl + Up – Move focus cell to first row of current column
- Ctrl + Down – Move focus cell to last row of current column
- Ctrl + Left – Move focus cell to first column of current row
- Ctrl + Right – Move focus cell to last column of current row
- Shift + Ctrl + Up – Move focus cell to first row to expand current selection
- Shift + Ctrl + Down – Move focus cell to last row to expend current selection
- Shift + Ctrl + Left – Move focus cell to first column to expend current selection
- Shift + Ctrl + Right – Move focus cell to last column to expend current selection
- Home – Move selection to first cell at current row
- Shift + Home – Move selection to first cell and to expend current selection
- Ctrl + Home – Move selection to first cell and first row of current patchbay
- Shift + Ctrl + Home – Move selection to first cell and first row to expend current selection
- Ctrl + End – Move to last cell and last row of current patchbay
- Shift + Ctrl + End – Move to last cell and last row to expend current selection
- Delete – Delete the content from selected cells
- Backspace – Delete the content from focus cell and enter edit mode
- Escape – abort edit operation and restore the cell content
- Ctrl + A – Select all cells of the current patchbay
- Ctrl + C – Copy content from selected cells into Clipboard
- Ctrl + V – Paste content from Clipboard into selected range
- Ctrl + X – Cut content from selected cells into Clipboard