Special Keys Used For Controlling Adapt It

Adapt It uses some shortcut keys for commonly used commands. Here is a list, and a brief note about what they do:

 

Special key combination

Definition

Alternate key combination

Enter

  • When in Drafting mode, stores your adaptation and moves the Phrase box to the next empty pile

  • When in Reviewing mode, stores your adaptation and moves the Phrase box to the immediately following pile (whether empty or not).

Tab

Shift+Enter

Move the Phrase box backwards to the immediately preceding pile

Shift+Tab

Shift+Tab

See Shift + Enter

Shift+Enter

Tab See Enter

Alt + Delete (Del)

Unmerge a source phrase. That is, separate the source phrase into a sequence of single words; this is a shortcut for the Unmerge toolbar button

Ctrl+U

Alt+Right Arrow

Select from the active location rightwards.

 

Alt+Left Arrow

Select from the Phrase box leftwards.

 

Alt+Up Arrow

When a selection is current, causes the Retranslation dialog box to open for the selected text, but if no selection is current, the Retranslation dialog opens just on the text in the storage element at the current Phrase box location.

Ctrl+R.

Alt+Down Arrow

Causes a placeholder to be inserted before the first selected storage element, or if none is selected, then it is inserted before the Phrase box.

Ctrl+I.

Ctrl+Down Arrow

Causes a placeholder to be inserted after the last selected storage element, or if none is selected, then it is inserted after the Phrase box.

Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow

Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow

Causes a placeholder to be inserted after the last selected storage element, or if none is selected, then it is inserted after the Phrase box.

Ctrl+Down Arrow

Alt+Enter

Merge selected storage elements into one, thereby making a source phrase at the first location of the selection. The Phrase box then contains all of the adaptations present for the selection joined together. If there are no adaptations for the selection, Adapt It copys the selected source text into the Phrase box, provided Copy Source is turned on.

Ctrl+M.

Up Arrow

Scroll the main window up one strip at a time, same as if the vertical scroll bar's up arrow button were clicked

 

Down Arrow

Scroll the main window down one strip at a time; same as if the vertical scroll bar's down arrow were clicked.

 

PgUp button

Scroll the main window up by a page at a time, less one strip.

 

PgDn button

Scroll the main window down by a page at a time, less one strip.

 

type any key

When you make a selection in order to make a phrase, typing any key into the Phrase box creates the merged phrase. Note that the phrase starts at the position where the Phrase box is located, even if the selected text contains material prior to the Phrase box 's current location.

 

F8 function key

Open the Choose Translation dialog box at the current active location.

Ctrl+L.

F9 function key

Open the Make A Retranslation dialog box at the current selection.

Ctrl+R

Ctrl+I

Insert a placeholder into the source text (i.e. a placeholder) after a location - such as before the phrase box location, or after the start of a selection

Alt+Down Arrow

Ctrl+D

Delete a placeholder

 

Ctrl+E

Edit a retranslation

 

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