General keyboard shortcuts

You can use different keyboard shortcuts to navigate through HCL Notes®. Note that Ctrl+Shift+L is a keyboard shortcut that displays a list of other available, useful shortcuts.

Note: Some shortcuts below (for example Ctrl+R, or Ctrl+Shift+R) require that you select the File > Preferences > Basic Notes Client Configuration > Enable alternate keyboard shortcuts option.
Table 1. General shortcuts

Shortcut

Description

Alt+A

Access actions from within a document

Alt+accelerator key

Access higher-level menus (for example, Alt+F opens File menu)

Alt+Down

Open drop-down controls such as the Select Names dialog box from name fields, combo boxes, date pickers, color palettes, and collapsed list box controls.

Alt+Minus

Opens a Size menu for pane borders. Press the s key to activate the menu, move the Up or Down arrow to select the border to move, and then press the Left, Right, Up, or Down arrow to move the selected border.

Alt+Spacebar

Opens a menu that lets you perform standard window operations such as Restore, Minimize, and Maximize. Use the Size and Move commands with the arrow keys to size or move the Notes® window.

Arrow keys

Navigate days via date picker in calendar

Arrow keys, Left and Right

Navigate tabs or a horizontal list

Arrow keys, Up and Down

Navigate a vertical list, such as a menu, navigator, calendar time slots, or items in a list view

Alt+B

Access Open menu and open the applications and bookmark list

Ctrl+1

Open Mail

Ctrl+2

Open Calendar

Ctrl+3

Open Contacts

Ctrl+5

Left sidebar Closed

Ctrl+6

Left sidebar Thin

Ctrl+7

Left sidebar Open

Ctrl+8

Right sidebar Thin

Ctrl+9

Right sidebar Open

Ctrl+0

Right sidebar Closed

Ctrl+F7

Access the sidebar

Ctrl+F

Opens the Find dialog box from views

Ctrl+F1

(Linux® only) Get Help on current feature

Ctrl+F8, then Up and Down arrow keys, then Enter

Move to selected window tab

Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down

Navigate pages in calendar

Ctrl+R

Reply to mail or calendar entry

Ctrl+Shift+R

Reply to All on mail or calendar entry

Ctrl+Shift+L

Open list of available shortcuts

Ctrl+Tab

Navigate forward in tab order

Ctrl+V

Paste Special

Ctrl+Shift+V

Paste as plain text

Ctrl+W

Closes current tabbed page

Enter

Expand or collapse a category or folder

Esc

Closes current tabbed page, collapses current thread, or exits current element

F1

Get Help on current feature

Linux® users: Use Ctrl+F1 instead.

F6

Cycles through all panes in the open perspective. (In views such as mail and calendar list views, for example, moves focus from view navigator to list view to preview pane (if open) to mini-view and back to view navigator.)

Minus

Collapse a category or folder

Shift+F10

Open a context menu

Shift+Plus

Expand a category, folder, or thread

Shift+Tab

Navigate backward in tab order

Tab

Navigate forward in tab order

Tab (Scheduler)

Give focus to Refresh schedule information icon in Scheduler in a meeting entry. Then, to access the Scheduler, press Tab again to give focus to entire Scheduler, and press Spacebar to give focus to the first item in Scheduler. Then do any of these:

Press Tab to give focus to different items within Scheduler.

Press Ctrl+Left arrow and Ctrl+Right arrow to move the time bar when it has focus.

Press Esc to remove focus from the Scheduler, and then press Shift+Tab to give focus to previous items in the meeting entry.