FileMaker Mac OS Keyboard Shortcuts

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS will speed things up and make development easier.  FileMaker has a long list of keyboard shortcuts ready for your use:

Text deletion keyboard shortcuts

You can use these shortcuts in Browse, Layout, and Find modes.To delete the  Press

 To delete  Press
 Next character  Delete
 Next word  Ctrl+Delete or Ctrl+Backspace
 Previous character  Backspace

Text editing keyboard shortcuts 
You can use these keyboard shortcuts to edit field and layout text and to work with find requests.

To  Press  For mode
 Clear selected text  Delete  Browse, Find, Layout
 Copy selected text  Ctrl+Ins or Ctrl+C  Browse, Find, Layout
 Copy all text in a record  Ctrl+C with no objects selected  Browse
 Copy all records in the found set to the Clipboard in text form  Ctrl+Shift+C
with no objects selected
 Browse
 Cut selected text  Shift+Delete or Ctrl+X  Browse, Find, Layout
 Paste  Ctrl+V  Browse, Find, Layout
 Undo  Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Z  Browse, Find, Layout
 Redo  Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z  Browse, Find, Layout
 Exit text edit mode  Enter (numeric keypad)  All
 Find/replace data  Ctrl+Shift+F  Browse, Find, Layout
 Find the next occurrence of the specified data  Ctrl+G  Browse, Find, Layout
 Reverse the current direction of a Find Again operation  Ctrl+Shift+G  Browse, Find, Layout
 Replace the Find what data with the Replace with data, then search for and select the next occurrence  Alt+Ctrl+G  Browse, Find, Layout
 Reverse the current direction of a Replace & Find Again operation  Shift+Alt+Ctrl+G  Browse, Find, Layout
 Find the next occurrence of the selected data in the database  Alt+Ctrl+H  Browse, Find, Layout
 Reverse the current direction of a Find Selected operation  Shift+Alt+Ctrl+H  Browse, Find, Layout
 Insert a non-breaking space  Ctrl+Space bar  Browse, Layout
 Insert a tab in a field  Ctrl+Tab  Browse, Layout
 Open the Spelling dialog box when alerted of a misspelled word
(A Check spelling as you type file option must be enabled.)
 Ctrl+Shift+Y  Browse, Layout

These shortcuts are only the start.  Visit the link below to see them all.  Windows shortcuts will be covered in another post.

via Text keyboard shortcuts (Mac OS) | FileMaker.

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