What are the keyboard shortcuts and other accessibility features?

This product uses standard Microsoft® Windows® navigation keys. The following tables provide additional information about navigating and completing actions in certain parts of the user interface.

Text chats

The following table describes the keyboard shortcuts or actions for common buttons in the user interface that perform actions.

Table 1. Common user interface button shortcuts
Action	Keyboard shortcut
OK	Press Enter
Cancel	Press Esc
Delete	Press Del
Browse button in chat history preferences and alert notifications preferences	Press Alt+B
Apply in Preferences	Press Alt+A
Restore defaults in Preferences	Press Alt+D
Done	Press Alt+D
Close	Press Alt+C
Next	Press Alt+N
Back	Press Alt+B
Move down	Press Alt+D

The following table identifies how to navigate in the contact list when it has focus.

Table 2. Contact list navigation
Action	Keyboard shortcut
To open Actions and Preferences	Press Alt+S
To move to individual names on the contact list	Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow
To start a chat with a selected contact on the contact list	Press Enter
To display the right-click menu of options for a selected contact on the contact list	Press Shift+F10
To give focus to the Find a person or number field at the beginning of the contact list window	Press Ctrl+F.

The following table describes how to navigate in the text chat window.

Table 3. Chat window navigation
Action	Keyboard shortcut
To give focus to the chat message transcript area so that you can scroll through the chat transcript	Press Ctrl+T
To give focus to the chat message entry area so that you can type a chat message	Press Ctrl+M
To change the direction you are typing in the chat message entry area, depending on the language that you are using	Press Ctrl+G

The following table describes how to navigate in, and adjust the width of, dialog box columns.

Table 4. Dialog box column navigation and width adjustment shortcuts
Action	Keyboard shortcut
To select the first column in a dialog box	Press Alt
To move between columns in a dialog box	Press Alt+Right Arrow or Alt+Left Arrow
To adjust the column width in a dialog box	Press Left Arrow and Right Arrow

The following table describes how to create a snapshot of what is displaying on your screen to send to your chat partner after you click the screen capture icon.

Table 5. Screen capture shortcuts
Action	Keyboard shortcut
To move to the part of your screen you want to capture	Press Right Arrow, Left Arrow, Up Arrow or Down Arrow
To select the part of the screen you want to capture	Press Shift+Right Arrow, Shift+Left Arrow, Shift+Up Arrow, or Shift+Down Arrow
To open the Screen Capture Tool dialog box with your screen capture selection	Release the Shift+Arrow keys