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648 Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

Introduction

This chapter describes the operations available on each of the menus and those
available via keyboard shortcuts. In many cases the operations described in this chapter
apply to the selected object. In most cases, the described action also applies when you
have several selected objects. We use selected object as shorthand for selected object
or objects.

Often you can select options from either a menu, a control bar or a keyboard shortcut.
Where a button on a control bar and/or keyboard shortcut exists, these are shown after
the menu name. For example, the following means there is a button on the STANDARD
control bar that has the same effect as selecting new, or you can use the shortcut "Ctrl +
N".

New (Standard control bar or "Ctrl + N")

File menu

New (Standard control bar or Ctrl+N)
Opens a new document.
New from Content Catalogue (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+K)

Opens the Online Content Catalog. Choose smartshapes, templates, stock photos,
widgets and clipart from the catalogue's web, layout and photo and graphic categories.

Open (Standard control bar or Ctrl+O)
Opens a new editing window and loads a file into it. This file can be:

• An Designer Pro .xar file to view or edit an existing Designer Pro document,
• Or any of the other import formats (see Importing & Exporting (on page 579) for a list
of formats). This opens a new document showing the drawing in the file.
Open recent

A list of the most recently loaded or saved files. Provides a quick way to reload any of
these files.

You can change the number of files in this list (refer to Customizing Designer Pro (on
page 624) for details).