Keyboard Shortcut Settings

See also: Mouse Usage Hints Note: Keyboard Short Cuts are completely customizable and can be exported for use on other machines under the Keyboard Preferences.

Default Keyboard Shortcuts for Scribus 1.4+

Function Keys

Function Shortcut
Show Help Manual F1
Show Properties Palette F2
Edit StylesF3
Show Layers Palette F6
Toggle All Guides F11
Toggle All Palettes F12

Listed in Logical Groups (as in Preferences)

Function Shortcut
File
New Ctrl+N
New from Template Ctrl+Alt+N
Open Ctrl+O
Close Ctrl+W
Save Ctrl+S
Save As Ctrl+Shift+S
Get Text or Image depending on selection Ctrl+I
Print Ctrl+P
Print Preview Ctrl+Alt+P
Quit Ctrl+Q
Edit
Undo Ctrl+Z
Redo Ctrl+Shift+Z
Cut Ctrl+X
Copy Ctrl+C
Paste Ctrl+V
Copy Contents (Images Only) Ctrl+Shift+C
Paste Contents (Images Only) Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste Absolute Contents (Images Only) Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V
Select All Ctrl+A
Advanced Select All Ctrl+Alt+A
Deselect All Ctrl+Shift+A
Search/Replace Ctrl+F
Edit Text Ctrl+T
Styles F3
Image Effects Ctrl+E
Item
Duplicate Ctrl+D
Multiple Duplicate Ctrl+Shift+D
Delete Item Ctrl+K
Group Ctrl+G
Ungroup Ctrl+Shift+G
Is Locked Ctrl+L
Size is Locked Ctrl+Shift+L
Raise Ctrl+Home
Lower Ctrl+End
Raise to top Home
Lower to bottom End
Insert
Text FrameT
Image FrameI
ShapeS
PolygonP
LineL
Bezier CurveB
Freehand LineF
Render FrameD
Soft Hyphen Ctrl+Shift+(-)
Non Breaking Dash Ctrl+Alt+(-)
Non Breaking Space Ctrl+Space
Page Number Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P
New Line Shift+Return
Frame Break Ctrl+Return
Column Break Ctrl+Shift+Return
View
Fit to Height Ctrl+0 (zero)
Zoom to 100% Ctrl+1
Preview Mode Ctrl+Alt+P
Show Rulers Ctrl+Shift+R
Plugin Menu Items
Save as Template Ctrl+Alt+S
Save as Image Ctrl+Shift+E
Others
Select ToolC
Rotate ToolR
Zoom ToolZ
Zoom In Ctrl+(+)
Zoom Out Ctrl+(-)
Edit Contents ModeE
Link FramesL
Unlink FramesU
Eye DropperY
Insert Unicode Character ValueCtrl+Shift+U
Stacked Objects, next in Z-order* Ctrl+Shift+LMouse
Resize proportionally Ctrl+drag**
Move frame/group with X/Y constrained*** Ctrl+drag
Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation Ctrl+drag and rotate
Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and
constrain the angle of rotation****
Ctrl+drag and rotate
* Cycles Top-Middle-Bottom-None, then repeats starting at top
** Make sure you let up on the mouse before letting up on Ctrl
*** Meaning you can only drag in X or Y direction, not both, for each click-move-unclick
**** You need to activate Rotation first (toolbar or keyboard R)

You can constrain objects when re-sizing them with Ctrl+drag. Constraining keeps the aspect ratio the same as the original shape.

Story Editor

Esc Closes Story Editor
Ctrl+W Save Changes and Close Story Editor
Ctrl+S Save File While Editing in Story Editor

Moving and Re-sizing Frames using Arrow Keys

The following are for points, millimeters,
picas*, centimeters, ciceros
Arrow keys

Move item 1 unit

Ctrl+ArrowMove item 10 units
Shift+ArrowMove item 0.1 units
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowMove item 0.01 units
* Movement units for picas are points
The following are for inches
Arrow keys

Move item 0.139 units**

Ctrl+ArrowMove item 1 unit
Shift+ArrowMove item 0.1 units
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowMove item 0.01 units
** This is about 10 points

 

Enlarging/Shrinking Frames***
Alt+Right ArrowEnlarges by moving right side outward
Alt+Left ArrowEnlarges by moving left side outward
Alt+Up ArrowEnlarges by moving top side outward
Alt+Down ArrowEnlarges by moving bottom side outward
Shift+Alt+Right ArrowShrinks by moving left side inward
Shift+Alt+Left ArrowShrinks by moving right side inward
Shift+Alt+Up ArrowShrinks by moving bottom side inward
Shift+Alt+Down ArrowShrinks by moving top side inward
*** Amount of movement is one unit, but for picas, movements are one point Formerly, if you also held Ctrl, amount of enlarging/shrinking was larger, but currently this only moves the frame.

Resizing and Moving Images in Edit Contents Mode


The amount of movement is numerically independent of units but dependent on scaling of the image, and therefore is greatest with a unit of inches.
Shift Ctrl Shift+Ctrl
Movement: 0.1 × Scaling 0.01 × Scaling 0.001 × Scaling
Example
48.1% Scale: 4.81 units 0.481 units 0.0481 units

Clearly, with units of inches, one would need to be careful. Furthermore, note that if your X-Scale is different from Y-Scale, the movement will be different in each direction, again according to this calculation.

Selection/Navigation Keys

Holding Shift while Left clicking adds objects to current selection, for multiple selection.

Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Characters

Ctrl+Shift+Right/Left Arrow selects Words

Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down selects to beginning/end of paragraph

Shift+Home selects Text back to the beginning of the line

Shift+End selects Text to the end of the line

Ctrl+Right/Left Arrow moves to the next/previous Word

Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow moves to the beginning/end of current paragraph or the previous/next paragraph

PgUp/PgDn moves to beginning/end of current frame.

Ctrl+Alt+Click selects a single Object out of a Groups