General keyboard shortcuts

You can use different keyboard shortcuts to navigate through IBM® 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.