Text Editor

When in the Text Editor Dialog box there are some useful keyboard shortcuts to help you get
around.
- Ctrl+C (Copy highlighted text to clipboard)
- Ctrl+X (Cut highlighted text to clipboard)
- Ctrl+V (Paste text from clipboard)
- Ctrl+Cursor Right (Next word right)
- Ctrl+Cursor Left (Next word left)
- Ctrl+End (End of text string)
- Ctrl+Home (Beginning of text string)
- Ctrl+Enter (Apply text edits)
- Shift+Cursor Keys (Highlight single text)
- Shift+End/Home (Highlight line text)
- Shift+Ctrl+Cursor Keys (Highlight next word)
- (Shift+) Enter (Continue on new line, text will be placed as a text node in the file)

AccuDraw
With the focus in the AccuDraw Dialog box there are some useful keys for changing the active
snap mode.
- I (Intersection Snap)
- N (Nearest Snap)
- C (Center Snap)
- K (Keypoint Snap)

In the entry fields (X,Y,Z) for AccuDraw you can get previous entered values with Page Up/Page
Down. This can be a time saver for retyping those long bearings.
- Page Up (Previous keyed in value)
- Page Down (First keyed in value)
Windows Keyboard
- Windows (Displays the start menu)
- Windows+E (Opens Explorer window)
- Windows+M (Minimizes all open windows)
- Windows+Shift+M (Restores all open windows)
- Windows+F (Opens Find/Search window)
- Windows+Tab (Cycle open applications in the task bar)
- Windows+R (Open the windows command line, entering: cmd, will open DOS like command
dialog)

MicroStation Pull down

With a default install of MicroStation the pull down menu has predefined hotkeys to help you
run commands and open dialogs. Hotkeys can be added to the pull down menu using
Workspace > Customize in MicroStation.
- Ctrl+N (Opens the New file dialog)
- Ctrl+O (Opens the Open file dialog)
- Ctrl+W (Closes MicroStation)
- Ctrl+S (Save file)
- Ctrl+F (Save settings)
- Ctrl+P (Opens the Print dialog)
- Ctrl+Z (Undo Command)
- Ctrl+R (Redo Command)
- Ctrl+C (Copy selected elements to clipboard)
- Ctrl+X (Cut selected elements to clipboard)
- Ctrl+V (Paste elements from the clipboard)
- Ctrl+G (Groups selected elements as an unnamed cell)
- Ctrl+U (Ungroup selected elements)
- Ctrl+L (Locks selected element)
- Ctrl+M (Unlocks selected element)
- Ctrl+I (Element Information tool)
- Ctrl+B (Opens and will close the View Attributes dialog)
- Ctrl+T (Opens the Toolboxes dialog)