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Appendix: Keyboard Shortcuts

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SwordSearcher has many keyboard shortcuts which allow you to quickly perform functions without using the mouse. Certain tasks will always require some use of the mouse, but advanced users who like to stick to the keyboard as much as possible will benefit from the many keyboard shortcuts provided in SwordSearcher.

 

Here is a list of the keyboard shortcuts SwordSearcher's main user interface responds to. This is not a comprehensive list of SwordSearcher's functions, just a list of keyboard shortcuts for functions that have keyboard shortcuts.

 

"Edit" commands:

 

Ctrl+C: Copy selected text
F5: Copy verse(s) to clipboard
F7: Copy all verses from Verse List panel
Shift+F7: Copy all references from Verse List panel
F8: Copy all verses from Bible panel
Ctrl+Alt+V: From another application, such as MS Word, opens the Copy Verses dialog in SwordSearcher and automatically pastes the selected verse reference.

 

"Search" commands:

 

F2: Search Bible dialog
F3: Quick Search in active Book
F4: Quick Search in active Commentary
Ctrl+F: Search text displayed in focused panel (does not search entire module)
Alt+T: Open Topic and Verse Guide
Alt+L: Full Library Search dialog
Ctrl+F2: Open English-Strong's Indexer
Shift+Alt+T: Open Library Table of Contents tool
Alt+F5: Open Scan Text for Verse References tool
Alt+F2: Search KJV Words of Christ

 

Bookmarks:

 

Access bookmarks with Ctrl+#, where # is the number of the bookmark you want to go to. Press Ctrl+1 for bookmark number 1, or Ctrl+0 for bookmark number 10. Set bookmarks with Shift+Ctrl+# in the same manner.

 

"Library Tabs" commands:

 

Alt+F11: Show all tabs
Alt+F12: Show only selected tabs

 

"View and Layout" commands:

 

F9: Close active Search Result panel
Ctrl+F9: Close all open Search Result panels
F10: Show/Hide Bible panel
F11: Show/Hide Book and Dictionary panel
F12: Show/Hide Commentary Panel
Alt+A: Restore layout and panel sizes
Shift+F9: Maximize active Search Results panel
Shift+F10: Maximize Bible panel
Shift+F11: Maximize Book and Dictionary panel
Shift+F12: Maximize Commentary panel
Ctrl+]: Increase text display font sizes
Ctrl+[: Decrease text display font sizes

 

Bible Panel commands:

 

Ctrl+PgDn: Next chapter
Ctrl+PgUp: Previous chapter
Ctrl+End: Next book
Ctrl+Home: Previous book
Ctrl+Down: Next verse
Ctrl+Up: Previous verse
Alt+F10: Toggle display of margin area

 

Set Keyboard Focus:

 

Alt+G or F6: Set keyboard focus to Go To Verse toolbar
Shift+F2: Set keyboard focus to Quick Bible Search toolbar
Alt+1: Set keyboard focus to Verse List panel
Alt+2: Set keyboard focus to Bible panel
Alt+3: Set keyboard focus to Book panel
Alt+4: Set keyboard focus to Commentary panel

 

Misc:

 

Ctrl+F10: Select Bible module with Module Selection Tool
Ctrl+F11: Select Book module with Module Selection Tool
Ctrl+F12: Select Commentary with Module Selection Tool
Shift+F5: Display Verse(s) (loads user specified verses into a Verse List panel)
F1: Open help file
Shift+Ctrl+F10: Next Bible version tab
Shift+Ctrl+F11: Next highlighted Book tab
Shift+Ctrl+F12: Next highlighted Commentary tab
+/- (while focused on panel with highlighted search results showing): Cycle through highlighted search results
Alt+F4: Exit SwordSearcher
Ctrl+Alt+F4: Exit SwordSearcher without saving layout
Alt+Up/Down: Decrements/Increments verse in the Go To Verse toolbar and performs sync events.