Summary of shortcuts on the numeric keypad

+

Makes a copy while dragging, resizing, skewing, and so on. The original object doesn't change.

/

Toggles leaving line widths unchanged during scaling and scaling with changing line widths.

-

Toggles leaving fills unchanged during moves, scaling, skewing, etc.

*

Toggles object magnetic snap on and off.

2

Toggles snap to guides on and off.

.

Toggles snap to grid on and off.

 

The tools

Selector Tool

F2 or V or Alt + S

Region Painter Tool

Alt + F3

Freehand Region Tool

Alt + F5

Rectangle Region Tool

Alt + F6

Mask Painter Tool

Alt + F7

Invert region or mask

Ctrl + F1  

Show/hide region or mask

Ctrl + H

Clear region or mask

Alt + F1   

Freehand & Brush Tool

F3 or N

Shape Tool

F4

Erase background

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + P   

Rectangle Tool

Shift + F3 or M

Ellipse Tool

Shift + F4 or L

QuickShape Tool

Shift + F2

Text Tool

F8 or T

Fill Tool

G

Transparency Tool

F6

Shadow Tool

Ctrl + F2

Bevel Tool

Ctrl + F3

Contour Tool

Ctrl + F7

Blend Tool

F7 or W

Mold Tool

Shift + F6

Live Effects Tool

Ctrl + F5

Photo Tool

P

Extrude Tool

E

Push Tool

Shift + F8 or H or Alt + X (or the Space bar when not in the Text Tool)

Zoom Tool

Shift + F7 or Z or Alt + Z

 

The Galleries

Fonts Gallery

Shift + F9

Designs Gallery

Shift + F10

Fill Gallery

Shift + F11

Frame Gallery

Shift + F12

Color Gallery

F9

Page & Layer Gallery

F10

Bitmap Gallery

F11

Line Gallery

Ctrl + F9

Name Gallery

Ctrl + Shift + F9

 

Zooming

     

Previous zoom

Ctrl + R

Zoom to selection

Ctrl + Shift + Z

Zoom to drawing

Ctrl + Shift + J

Zoom to page

Ctrl + Shift + P

Zoom in (enlarge)

Ctrl + + on the numeric keypad

Zoom out (reduce)

Ctrl + - on the numeric keypad

Zoom to 100%

1

Zoom to 200%

2

Zoom to 300%

3

Zoom to 400%

4

Zoom to 50%

5

You can also zoom and slide the document using a mouse-wheel (Ctrl+Mouse-Wheel zooms in/out).

Manipulating documents

When in the Text Tool, shortcuts marked with a star (*) have a different action-see below.

New document

Ctrl + N

New animation document

Ctrl + Shift + N

Web animation dialog

Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N

Open document

Ctrl + O

Close document

Ctrl + W*

Switch document

Ctrl + Tab

Print document

Ctrl + P

Save document

Ctrl + S

Import

Ctrl + Alt + I

Import graphics from Web

Ctrl + Alt + W

Add Google fonts

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + W

Export

Ctrl + Shift + E

Time a document redraw

Ctrl + Shift + T

Show grid

#

Show guides

1 on numeric keypad

Snap to grid

. on the numeric keypad

Snap to guides

2 on the numeric keypad

Snap to objects

* on the numeric keypad

Select full screen

8 on the numeric keypad

Show rulers

Ctrl + Shift + R or Ctrl + L*

Undo

Ctrl + Z or < or ,

Redo

Ctrl + Y or > or .

 

Manipulating objects

When in the Text Tool, shortcuts marked with a star (*) have a different action-see below.

Select all

Ctrl + A *

Select next object

Tab

Delete the selection

Delete *

Clear selection/Reset current attributes

Esc

Bring object to front

Ctrl + F

Put object to back

Ctrl + B *

Move object forwards

Ctrl + Shift + F

Move object backwards

Ctrl + Shift + B

Move object to layer in front (drawing documents)

Ctrl + Shift + U

Move object to layer behind (drawing documents)

Ctrl + Shift + D

Move to next frame (animation documents)

Ctrl + Shift + U

Move to previous frame (animation documents)

Ctrl + Shift + D

Group objects

Ctrl + G

Ungroup objects

Ctrl + U

Apply Soft Group

Ctrl + Shift + G

Remove Soft Group

Ctrl + Shift + U

Clone object

Ctrl + K

Duplicate object with offset

Ctrl + Alt+ D

Copy object to clipboard

Ctrl + C

Cut selection to clipboard

Ctrl + X

Paste object from clipboard

Ctrl + V

Paste object in original position

Ctrl + Shift + V

Paste opacity mask

Ctrl + Shift + M

Paste attributes

Ctrl + Shift + A

Create bitmap copy

Ctrl + Shift + C

Export sliced image

Ctrl + I *

Add shapes

Ctrl + 1

Subtract shapes

Ctrl + 2

Intersect shapes

Ctrl + 3

Intersect all shapes

Ctrl + 5

Slice shapes

Ctrl + 4

Join Shapes

Ctrl + J

Apply ClipView

Q

Line width adjust

Ctrl + Shift + mousewheel

Remove ClipView

Alt + Q

Create opacity mask

O

Ungroup opacity mask

Alt + O

Convert to editable shapes

Ctrl + Shift + S

Open the alignment dialog box

Ctrl + Shift + L*

Web address

Ctrl + Shift + W

Repeat on all pages

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + R

Stop repeating

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + O

Move the selected objects cursor (arrow) keys with the Selector Tool (see Nudging objects )

Move the selected handles cursors (arrow) keys in tools other than the selector.

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 + <

Ctrl + >

Increase/Decrease font size of selected text (only if the 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.

 

Special characters (in Text Tool)

Ctrl + Space

 

Hard space (words with hard spaces between will not wrap at the end of a line)

Ctrl + NumPad –

EN dash (An EN dash is longer than a minus, and is a more correct 'dash')

Ctrl + Alt + NumPad –

EM dash (An EM dash is a long dash)

Ctrl + Alt +.(Full stop)

Ellipsis (An ellipsis is three dots)

Ctrl + Alt + C

©

Copyright

Ctrl + Alt + R

®

Registered

Ctrl + Alt + T

Trademark

Ctrl + Alt + B

Bullet

 

Feather Tool

You can control the feather slider with your mouse and keyboard. When the feather text box or slider are selected:

Mouse wheel up/down

increases or decreases feathering

Ctrl + Mouse wheel up/down

increases or decreases in larger increments.

Page up/page down keys

increases or decreases in larger increments.

Home/end keys select

minimum or maximum feather values.

 

Other

Color Editor

Ctrl + E (opens and closes)

Options dialog

Ctrl + Shift + O

Xara Help

F1

 

 

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