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Keyboard Navigation


You can use the keyboard to pick notes and octaves and to navigate from page to page. The keys work as follows:

Picking the Octave (either regular number keys or Numpad keys with Numlock On):
key 1 = Octave 1
key 2 = Octave 2
key 3 = Octave 3

Picking the Notes:
key a = Note A
key b = Note B
key c = Note C
key d = Note D
key e = Note E
key f  = Note F
key g = Note G
Using the SHIFT key with the above picks the note 1/2 step up (e.g. Shift-c picks note C#)

Numpad plus (+) = go 1/2 step up
Numpad minus (-) = go 1/2 step down

Paging:
PageDown key = FWRD>>
PageUp key = <<BACK

Miscellaneous:
F1 = "context sensitive" help - brings up Help on the last control that was used.
F5 = Refresh the screen. Also available under the View Menu (see The Menu).

key r = toggle External ReadMe View/Hide, if that button is present

key x = toggle the expansion of the Large Text Panel (see Show Large Text Panel Checkbox for more info) .

Comments
The paging keys only work when the FWRD>> and <<BACK buttons (see Page Fwrd/Back Buttons) are activated (i.e. when a note requires more than one screen to display its info).

The Numpad Plus and Minus keys allow you to go up or down a half step. They are better than just using the left and right arrow keys because the left and right arrow keys will only go up or down when the note buttons have "focus." For example, if you were on note G, octave 2, if the last object you clicked with the mouse was the Octave 2 button, the left and right arrow keys would go from octave to octave, not note to note, because the octave button group has "focus." In contrast, the Numpad Plus and Minus keys will switch focus to the note keys and go up or down half a step, no matter where the current key focus is. Also, they will go from one octave to the next - for example, if you are on alto note E, octave 1, and press the Numpad Plus key, you will go to alto note F, octave 2. Pressing the Minus will return you to octave 1 note E.