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528 Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

Text Tool
Cursor keys Move the text cursor up up, down, left or right
one character at a time.
Home Move the text cursor to the start of the line.
End Move the text cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl + left/right cursor Move the text cursor left/right one word.
Ctrl + Home Move the text cursor to the start of the first line in a text
object.
Ctrl + End Move the text cursor to the end of the last line in a text
object.
Ctrl + A Selects all characters in a text object.
Ctrl + B Apply the bold attribute.
Ctrl + I Apply the italic attribute.
Ctrl + C Copy the selected region of text to the clipboard.
Ctrl + L Select all characters in the line containing the text cursor.
Ctrl + Return Insert page break
Ctrl + Shift + Return Insert column break
Ctrl + Shift + L Insert 'Lorem ipsum' dummy text
Ctrl + V Paste text at the text cursor position (if the clipboard
contains text).
Ctrl + W Swap the case of the character to the right of the text cursor.
Ctrl + Shift + F1 Toggle text selection between uppercase and lowercase.
Ctrl + - Insert Soft Hyphen (appears only when wrapping at line
end).
Ctrl + Shift + - Insert hard hyphen (dash) to prevent a dash being
misinterpreted as a hyphen at line end.
Ctrl + < Increase/Decrease font size of selected text (only if the
Ctrl + > selection is all the same point size)
Alt + cursor keys Increase/Decrease kerning/tracking.
 Start a new line of text.
Delete Delete the character to the right of the text cursor. If the
cursor is on the end of a text line, join this line to the line
below.
Backspace Delete the character to the left of the text cursor. If the
cursor is at the start of a text line, join this line to the line
above.
Shift + cursor keys Select all text between the cursor position and the beginning
of the line.
Shift + End Select all text between the cursor position and the end of the
line.