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

Move back

Shift+Enter

Shift+End

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

Tab

See Enter

 

Alt+Right Arrow

Select from the active location rightwards, selecting in line 2 of the source text (or line 1 if only one line of source text is being shown)

 

Alt+Left Arrow

Select from the Phrase box leftwards, selecting in line 2 of the source text (or line 1 if only one line of source text is being shown)

 

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 (only when a selection is current)

Merge selected storage elements into one, thereby making a source phrase at the active location, and select the contents of the phrase box. (What appears in the phrase box is determined by whether you have already typed something in it or not. If you have typed into it, or clicked in the box, or pressed the right or left arrow keys, then your typing is preserved. If you have not typed into it, and provided Copy Source is turned on, then source text is copied to the box – and if Use Consistent Changes is turned on, it is first run through the change tables before being shown in the box.)

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 a selection is causes a merge of the selected storage elements, current and the active location is and the key typed becomes the first character of within the selection: the adaptation you are typing

 

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) before a location - such as before the phrase box location, or before the start of a selection

Alt+Down Arrow

Ctrl+D

Delete a placeholder

 

Ctrl+E

Edit a retranslation

 

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