Re: Shortcut to select cell?
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- Subject: [mg38991] Re: Shortcut to select cell?
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:06:20 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Washington
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Kirk, This question has come up before, and you could search the archives at google or wolfram to find an answer. At any rate, the simplest way to select a cell while the cursor is in the cell is to repeatedly hit Ctrl-. until the vertical bar is highlighted. The main problem with this approach is that if you hit Ctrl-. one too many times, you will select a whole bunch of cells. A smaller problem is that if you are deeply buried within a cell, it may take many Ctrl-.s to select the cell. A more complicated method to do what you want which avoids the above problems is to create a new hot key by editing the KeyEventTranslations.tr system file. If you are interested in doing this, you can search the archives for discussions about this file, or you can fiddle with the file (after you save a copy of it). One thing to watch out for is to avoid using hot keys that have already been defined for the menu system. The menu hot keys are defined in the file MenuSetup.tr. If you want to pursue the second option above, feel free to ask for more advice. Carl Woll Physics Dept U of Washington "Kirk Reinholtz" <kirk.reinholtz at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:b0luqu$58s$1 at smc.vnet.net... > All: > > I'm striving to stay away from the mouse, using keyboard shortcuts > instead, so that I can move more quickly. > > Here's one that's irritating me (on windows): > > You are in the midst of editing in a cell. You decide you want to > change the style of the cell (e.g. from text to small text). There are > the Alt- shortcuts, but those only seem to work when the cell itself is > selected. And so, the question: What keystrokes will select a cell > itself, from someplace within the cell? > > Thank you. >