Keyboard shortcuts

The following tables of shortcut keys are organized by type of key:

Letter keys   Alt keys   Function keys   Arrow, Home, and End keys   Other keys   Key combination notation

Letter keys

To

Press

Switch to Distribution Charts view.

Ctrl+Alt+B

Switch to Consonant Chart view.

Ctrl+Alt+C

Switch to Data Corpus view.

Ctrl+Alt+D

Switch to Search view.

Ctrl+Alt+S

Switch to Vowel Chart view.

Ctrl+Alt+V

Select all the data in the word list in Data Corpus view, the active word list in Search view, or the chart in Consonant Chart view or Vowel Chart view.

Ctrl+A

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard.

Ctrl+C

Find a string of characters in the active word list.

Ctrl+F

Show or hide groups by primary sort field in the active word list.

Ctrl+G

Show or hide groups of minimal pairs in the active search result word list.

Ctrl+M

View the data in groups of similar environments.

Ctrl+Alt+N

Create a new project.

Ctrl+N

Open a project.

Ctrl+O

View or modify project settings.

Ctrl+R

Save the search pattern in Search view.
Save the chart in Distribution Charts view.

Ctrl+S

Paste text from the Clipboard at the insertion point.

Ctrl+V

Close the most recent tab (Search view).

Ctrl+W

Alt keys

To

Press

  • Clear the Current Search Pattern box.

  • Clear the current chart.

Alt+C

Show or hide the Histogram ().

Alt+H

Insert Element into current search pattern.

Alt+I

Fill the current chart ().

Alt+L

Delete a column ().

Alt+O

Delete a row ().

Alt+R

Show Results for the Current Search Pattern box.

Alt+S

Other "Alt+letter" shortcuts appear as underlined letters in menus.

Function keys

To

Press

Open the Phonology Assistant Help window.

F1

F2

Edit the selected record in the active word list.

Shift+F2

Find the next occurrence of a string of characters in the active word list.

F3

Find the previous occurrence.

Shift+F3

Toggle between the Default chart and HTML chart (Consonant Chart and Vowel Chart views).

F4

Play the audio file corresponding to the selected record in the active word list.

F5

Play the audio file repeatedly.

Ctrl+F5

Move focus to the Current Search Pattern box, and select the pattern (Search view).

F6

Change view to the Default chart (Consonant Chart and Vowel Chart views).

F6

Stop playing the audio file.

F8

Reload Project Data Sources.

Ctrl+F9

Arrow, Home, and End keys

To

Press

Collapse the selected group heading in a word list.

Left Arrow

Expand the selected group heading in a word list.

Right Arrow

Collapse all groups in a word list.

Ctrl+Up Arrow

Expand all groups in a word list.

Ctrl+Down Arrow

When a phone is selected in Consonant or Vowel Chart views, move it left, right, up, or down one cell.

Alt+Left Arrow
Alt+Right Arrow
Alt+Up Arrow
Alt+Down Arrow

Move to the beginning of a word list.

Ctrl+Home

Move to the end of a word list.

Ctrl+End

Other keys

To

Press

Stop finding a string of characters in the active word list, or close an open dialog box.

Esc

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard.

Ctrl+Insert

Paste text from the Clipboard at the insertion point.

Shift+Insert

Insert a diacritic placeholder () when the insertion point is in the Current Search Pattern box or search item or search environment cell in Distribution Charts view.

Ctrl+0 (zero)

To insert search patterns into Current Search Pattern field:

  • /#_* (Word Initial)

  • /{[C],[V]}_{[C],[V]} (Word Medial)

  • /*_* (Anywhere)

  • /*_# (Word Final).

 

  • Ctrl+1

  • Ctrl+2

  • Ctrl+5

  • Ctrl+9.

Key combination notation

For example, Alt+F+N opens the File menu and then the New Project Settings dialog box.

Related Topics

Data Corpus toolbar

Distribution Charts toolbar

User Interface overview

Views overview