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Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use your keyboard and mouse to quickly accomplish many tasks in iWeb.

Action
Shortcut

Viewing

Open iWeb Help

Command-Question Mark (?)

Open iWeb preferences

Command-Comma (,)

Show/hide layout

Shift-Command-L

Show/hide inspector

Option-Command-I

Selecting and editing text

Select one or more characters

Click in front of the first character and drag across the characters you want to select

Select a word

Double-click the word

Select a paragraph

Triple-click in the paragraph

Select multiple words or blocks of text that aren’t next to one another

Select the first text, and then select additional text while holding down Command

Extend text selection

Click in the text, and then Shift-click in another location in the text

Extend selection one character to the right

Shift-Right Arrow

Extend selection one character to the left

Shift-Left Arrow

Extend selection to the end of the current word

Shift-Option-Right Arrow

Extend selection to the beginning of the current word

Shift-Option-Left Arrow

Extend selection to the end of the current line

Shift-Command-Right Arrow

Extend selection to the beginning of the current line

Shift-Command-Left Arrow

Extend selection to the line above

Shift-Up Arrow

Extend selection to the line below

Shift-Down Arrow

Extend selection to the beginning of the current paragraph

Shift-Option-Up Arrow

Extend selection to the end of the current paragraph

Shift-Option-Down Arrow

Extend selection to the beginning of the text (in the current text box)

Shift-Command-Up Arrow or Shift-Home

Extend selection to the end of the text (in the current text box)

Shift-Command-Down Arrow or Shift-End

Move one character to the right

Right Arrow

Move one character to the left

Left Arrow

Move to the line above

Up Arrow

Move to the line below

Down Arrow

Move to the beginning of the current or previous word

Option-Left Arrow

Move to the end of the current or next word

Option-Right Arrow

Move to the beginning of the current line

Command-Left Arrow

Move to the end of the current line

Command-Right Arrow

Move to the beginning of the current paragraph

Option-Up Arrow

Move to the end of the current paragraph

Option-Down Arrow

Move to the beginning of the current text box

Command-Up Arrow

Move to the end of the current text box

Command-Down Arrow

Scroll to the top of the page

Home

Scroll to the end of the page

End

Formatting text

Show Fonts window

Command-T

Show Colors window

Shift-Command-C

Make selected text bold

Command-B

Make selected text italic

Command-I

Underline selected text

Command-U

Delete the previous character or selection

Delete

Delete the next character or selection

Del (not available on all keyboards)

Make selected text bigger

Command-Plus Sign (+) or Command-Equal Sign (=)

Make selected text smaller

Command-Minus Sign (-)

Make selected text superscript

Control-Command-Plus Sign (+)

Make selected text subscript

Control-Command-Minus Sign (-)

Align text flush left

Shift-Command-Left Brace ( { )

Center text

Shift-Command-Vertical Line ( | )

Align text flush right

Shift-Command-Right Brace ( } )

Align text flush right and flush left (justify)

Shift-Command-Option-Vertical Line ( | )

Copy paragraph style

Option-Command-C

Copy character tyle

Shift-Option-Command-C

Paste character or paragraph style

Option-Command-V

Paste and match style of destination text

Shift-Option-Command-V

Insert nonbreaking space

Option-Space bar

Insert line break (soft return)

Shift-Return

Edit hypertext without disabling hyperlinks

Place insertion point near the link and use arrow keys to move insertion point into the link text

Manipulating objects

Draw a shape

Option-click Shapes toolbar button, choose a shape, and then drag to size

Move selected object one point

Arrow key

Move selected object ten points

Shift-arrow key

Send selected object to the back

Shift-Command-B

Send selected object back (down) one layer

Shift-Option-Command-B

Bring selected object to the front

Shift-Command-F

Bring selected object forward one layer

Shift-Option-Command-F

Constrain movement of object to 45 degrees

Shift-drag

Resize object from center

Option-drag handle

Constrain aspect ratio when resizing object

Shift-drag handle

Constrain aspect ratio when resizing object from center

Shift-Option-drag handle

Rotate object

Command-drag handle

Rotate object 45 degrees

Shift-Command-drag handle

Rotate object around opposite handle (instead of center)

Option-Command-drag handle

Turn off alignment guides while dragging object

Command-drag

Mask or unmask object

Shift-Command-M

Turn off masking

Return, Command-Return, or double-click

Turn on masking

Double-click the masked image

Open shortcut menu for selected object

Control-click

Turn off text editing and select text box or shape

Command-Return

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