Electrical Design Software | Elecdes Design Suite by Scada Systems Ltd

Keyboard Operations

The following tables have all the keyboard shortcuts for Database Editor.

General

Key CombinationAction
CTRL+TABNext Open Database
CTRL+SHIFT+TABPrevious Open Database
ENTERMove the active cell down one record
TABMove the active cell right
SHIFT+TABMove the active cell left
F2Begin editing a cell
End cell edit (commit changes)
ESCCancel cell edit (discard changes)

Data Selection

The following key combinations move the active (selected) cell.

Hold SHIFT while using these key combinations in order to select a range of cells or modify the range of an existing selection.

Key CombinationActive cell moves...
LEFTLeft one cell
RIGHTRight one cell
UPUp one cell
DOWNDown one cell
CTRL+LEFT
HOME
To the start of the current record
CTRL+RIGHT
END
To the end of the current record
CTRL+UPTo the top cell in the current column
CTRL+DOWNTo the bottom cell in the current column
CTRL+HOMETo the first cell of the first record
CTRL+ENDTo the last cell of the last record
PAGE UPUp one page
PAGE DOWNDown one page

File Menu

Key CombinationAction
CTRL+NNew dBase File
CTRL+SHIFT+NNew SQL dBase Table
CTRL+ALT+NNew MS Access dBase Table
CTRL+OOpen dBase File
CTRL+SHIFT+OOpen SQL dBase Table
CTRL+ALT+OOpen MS Access dBase Table
CTRL+SSave
CTRL+ASave As dBase File
CTRL+SHIFT+ASave As SQL dBase Table
CTRL+ALT+ASave As MS Access dBase Table
CTRL+QExit

Edit Menu

Key CombinationAction
CTRL+ZUndo
CTRL+XCut
CTRL+CCopy
CTRL+VPaste
DelClear Contents
CTRL+SHIFT+XAdvanced Cut
CTRL+SHIFT+CAdvanced Copy
CTRL+SHIFT+VAdvanced Paste
CTRL+FFind
CTRL+HReplace
CTRL+IIncrement
CTRL+SHIFT+IDecrement
CTRL+UMake Upper Case
CTRL+EForm Editor
CTRL+TSort Ascending
CTRL+SHIFT+TSort Descending
CTRL+RNavigate to Component