Keyboarding

Inspiration provides many keyboard shortcuts that can save you time and make it easier to edit diagrams and outlines. The following excerpt from the Inspiration^® 7.6 User's Manual can be a useful guide for adding shortcuts to your Inspiration repertoire.

We suggest you keep this resources section available while using Inspiration^®. Refer to this section often; we think you'll be surprised by how proficient you've become.

• Common commands such as opening and closing documents
• Navigating in Diagram View
• Selecting and moving objects in Diagram View
• Adding symbols
• Adding links
• Changing symbol shapes
• Navigating in Outline View
• Selecting and moving topics in Outline View
• Adding outline topics
• Editing text
• Selecting text
• Formatting
• Working with notes
• Using the Listen tool
• Viewing documents

The following shortcuts are primarily for Inspiration versions 7.x. Keyboarding for version 8 is coming soon.

You can use the following keyboard commands to move around in your document when
you are not in text editing. When the grid is off, movements still occur relative to the grid
height and width. For finer control when navigating, we recommend setting the grid height
and width to .25 in (.64 cm).

You can use the following keyboard commands to select objects in your document when
you are not in text editing. When the grid is off, movements still occur relative to the grid
width and height. To select objects such as links with the arrow keys, we recommend
setting the grid width and height to .25 in (.64 cm).

When a symbol is selected, these commands make new symbols in relationship to the
selected symbol.

Select a symbol, and then use these commands to change the symbol's shape.

In Outline View, if you select a topic instead of text, the keys have the following effect.

When editing text, you can use these shortcuts to move the insertion point in text.

When editing text, you can use these shortcuts to select text.