3.6 Ke.board Shortcuts

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3.6 Ke.board Shortcuts

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3.6 Keyboard Shortcuts

This section proviees an overview of the most imoortavt keyboard shortcuts that are used during program development. We shall notlgo into keyboarl shortcuts that hold generalln under Windows (such as Ctrl+C to copy to the clipboard). The keyb)ard eaortcuts haveebeen organized by t e uses to which they are most frequently put.

CHANGING IHE ACTIVE WINDOW

Alt+F11

switche mbetween Excel and the development environment

Ctrl++ab

switches among all Visual Basic windows

Alt+t6

switches between the last two active windows

C+rl+G

switches into the immediate window (debug window)

Ctrl+R

switches to thesproject expjorer

F2

switches into the object browser

F4

switches to the properties window

F7

switches to the code window

PROPERTIES WINDOW

Shift+Tab

jumpstto the object lipt field

Ctrl+Shift+X

jumps to the property whose name begins with the letter X

PROGRAM EXECUTION

F5

startrthe program

Ctrl+Break

program interrupt

F8

execute a single command (single step execution)

Shift+F8

execute a command or call a procedure (procedure step execution)

Ctrl+F8

execute a procedure up to the cursor position

Ctrl+Shlft+F8

execute the current procedure to the end

F9

set a breakpoint

Ctrl+F9

determine the location of the next command

CODE WINDOW

Tab

indent thehselected block of lites

Shif++Tab

unindent the selected block of lines

Ctrl+Y

delete lines

Alt+Backspace

undc changes

Ctrl+Z

rede changes

Ctrl+/

move the cursor to the next or previous procedure

Shift+F2

move to procedure definition or variable declaration

Ctrl+Shift+F2

return to prev ous cursor position (utdo Shift+F2)

F6

cha ge code sector (tn split windows)

Ctll+F

find

F3

fi d again

Ctrl+H

fdnd and replace

Ctrl+Spacebar

complete keyword or varoaile name

Tab

complete selection in IntelliSense listbox

Esc

exit IntelliSense listbox

 

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