Queue/Story Pane Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts available when working in the Queue/Story pane are listed in the following table. Some keystroke combinations only work when the cursor is located in a certain section of the pane; the Focus column in the table specifies the section of the pane when that is the case. For more information on the pane and its sections, see The Queue/Story Pane.

Shortcut	Description	Focus
Ctrl+S	Save story	Queue/Story pane
Ctrl+E	Toggle the story’s edit lock on and off	Queue/Story pane
Shift+Left Arrow	Select text one character at a time moving backward	Story
Shift+Right Arrow	Select text one character at a time moving forward	Story
Shift+Up Arrow	Select text one line at a time moving upward	Story
Shift+Down Arrow	Select text one line at a time moving downward	Story
Ctrl+]	Split the segment	Story
Ctrl+X	Cut selection	Story
Ctrl+C	Copy selection	Queue/Story pane
Ctrl+V	Paste selection	Story
Ctrl+Z	Undo previous change	Queue/Story pane
Ctrl+Y	Redo previous change	Queue/Story pane
Ctrl+B	Set selected text to bold	Story
Ctrl+I	Italicize selected text	Story
Ctrl+U	Underline selected text	Story
Ctrl+Alt+P	Turn on Presenter Instruction mode or mark selected text as presenter instructions	Story
Alt+Insert	Insert production cue	Story
Ctrl+Alt+M	Mark selected text as machine control instructions	Cue List
Ctrl+Alt+C	Turn on Closed Captioning mode or mark selected text as closed captioning text	Story
Ctrl+Alt+N	Turn on Normal text mode or change selected text to normal font	Story
Ctrl+Alt+G	Create a Story Group	Queue/Story pane
Ctrl+Alt+V	Dissolve a Story Group	Queue/Story pane
Tab	Move to next form field	Story Form
Shift+Tab	Move to previous form field	Story Form