Scribus Hotkeys - Keyboard Shortcuts





Function Keys

Function

Shortcut

Show Help Manual

F1

Show Layers Palette

F6

Toggle All Palettes

F10

Toggle All Guides

F11

Insert Unicode Character

F12 + 4 digit hex value

Control, Shift, Alt Keys

Function

Shortcut

Select All

Control-A

Deselect All

Control-Shift-A

Copy

Control-C

Get Text or Image

Control-D

Item Duplicate

Control-Alt-Shift-D

Search and Replace

Control-F

Lock Item

Control-L

Lock Item Size

Control-Shift-L

Group Items

Control-G

Document Information

Control-I

Delete Item

Control-K

New File

Control-N

Open File

Control-O

Print

Control-P

Quit

Control-Q

Save

Control-S

Save As

Control-Shift-S

Ungroup Item

Control-Shift-G

Paste

Control-V

Close File

Control-W

Cut

Control-X

Edit with Story Editor

Control-Y

Undo

Control-Z

Redo

Control-Shift-Z

Select All

Control-A

DeSelect All

Control-Shift-A

Zoom to fit

Control-0

Zoom to 100%

Control-1

Zoom In

Control-Plus

Zoom Out

Control-Minus

Zoom In/Out

Control-Mousewheel

Smart Hyphen

Control-Shift-Minus

Non Breaking Space

Control-Space

Insert Page Number

Control-Alt-Shift-P

Raise

Control-Home

Lower

Control-End

Raise to top

Home

Lower to bottom

End

Frame Break

Control-Return

Column Break

Control-Shift-Return

Stacked Objects, next in Z-order

Control-Shift-LMouse

Resizing object when other object on top

Control-drag

Resize proportionally

Control-drag

Move image in image frame without entering frame edit mode

Control-Alt-drag

Move frame/group with X/Y constrained

Control-drag

Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation

Control-drag and rotate

Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and constrain the angle of rotation

Control-drag and rotate

Resize to a square

Shift-drag

New Line

Shift-Return

Scale text

Alt-Shift-drag

Scale text proportionally

Alt-Control-drag

Move item 1 unit (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)

Arrow keys

Move item 0.1 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)

Shift+Arrow keys

Move item 10 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)

Control+Arrow keys

Move item 0.01 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)

Control+Shift+Arrow keys

Resize item 1 unit outwards (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)

Alt+Arrow keys

Resize item 1 unit inwards(current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)

Shift+Alt+Arrow keys

Move to start of paragraph in text edit mode on canvas

Control Up Arrow

Move to end of paragraph in text edit mode on canvas

Control Down Arrow

Move to start of frame in text edit mode on canvas

Control Page Up

Move to end of frame in text edit mode on canvas

Control Page Down

Resize image while in image frame edit mode on canvas

Alt+Arrow keys

Normal Keys

Function

Shortcut

A

Insert Table Frame

B

Insert Bezier Curve

C

Select (Temporary until the rest are sorted out)

E

Edit Contents (text in a text frame, or image location in an image frame)

F

Insert Freehand Line

I

Insert Image Frame

N

Link Text Frame

L

Insert Line

P

Insert Polygon

R

Rotate

S

Insert Shape

T

Insert Text Frame

U

Unlink Text Frame

Z

Zoom

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