Keyboard Shortcuts for Visual FoxPro

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The tables in this article show Visual FoxPro shortcuts for running menu commands, manipulating windows, accessing Help, and using default macro definitions.

Menu commands

Shortcut   Command                           Applies to
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CTRL+A     Select All (Edit Menu)            Editing text
CTRL+C     Copy (Edit Menu)
CTRL+D     Do (Program Menu)
CTRL+E     Delete Item (Menu Menu)           Designing menus
CTRL+E     Do <program> (Program Menu)       Programs
CTRL+F     Find (Edit Menu)
CTRL+H     Change Partitions (Table Menu)    Browse windows
CTRL+I     Insert Item (Menu Menu)           Designing menus
CTRL+J     Project Info (Project Menu)       Projects
CTRL+L     Replace (Edit Menu)
CTRL+M     Resume (Program Menu)             Programs
CTRL+N     New (File Menu)
CTRL+O     Open (File Menu)
CTRL+P     Print (File Menu)
CTRL+Q     Run Query (Query Menu)            Queries
           or Close Active Window or
           dialog box if Query Designer
           is not active.
CTRL+R     Redo (Edit Menu)
CTRL+S     Save (File Menu)
CTRL+T     Toggle Deletion Mark (Table Menu) Browse windows
CTRL+V     Paste (Edit Menu)
CTRL+W     Close current Text window or
           dialog box and saves changes.
CTRL+X     Cut (Edit Menu)
CTRL+Y     Append New Record (Table Menu)    Browse windows
CTRL+Z     Undo (Edit Menu)
				

Window manipulation

CTRL+F1     Cycles windows
CTRL+F2     Displays Command window
CTRL+F4     Closes active window
CTRL+F5     Restores maximized window
CTRL+F6     Cycles windows
CTRL+F7     Moves active window
CTRL+F8     Sizes active window
CTRL+F9     Minimizes active window
CTRL+F10    Maximizes active window
				

Help

F1: Displays Help Contents or context-sensitive Help on active items (for example, a highlighted keyword in the Command window or the current property in the Properties window). SHIFT+F1: Enables user-prompted context-sensitive Help. The insertion pointer changes to a question mark so that you can click an item (for example, a menu command or toolbox) to display context-sensitive Help.

Default Macros Definitions

F2     SET
F3     LIST
F4     DIRECTORY
F5     DISPLAY STRUCTURE
F6     DISPLAY STATUS
F7     DISPLAY MEMORY
F8     DISPLAY
F9     APPEND
				

NOTE: The macro definitions apply to the Command window. You can change the macro definitions by using the Macros command on the Tools menu.