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June 15, 2010

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows Live Writer 2011

Filed under: Live Writer, Ribbon UI, Wave 4 — Tags: , , , — Aaron Bregel @ 2:20 PM

I had a post about the shortcuts for beta build but never had a post for the final Windows Live Writer 2011.  Here is the full list:

Command Keystroke New for 2011
Text Center Alignment Ctrl+E

X

Text Left Alignment Ctrl+L

X

Text Right Alignment Ctrl+R

X

Set text direction of paragraph Left to Right Ctrl+Left Shift

X

Set text direction of paragraph Right to Left Ctrl+Right Shift

X

Bold text Ctrl+B  
Italic Ctrl+I  
Strikethrough Ctrl+H  
Underline Ctrl+U  
Superscript Ctrl+Shift+=

X

Subscript Ctrl+=

X

Bulleted List Ctrl+Shift+L

X

Check Spelling F7  
Clear Del  
Copy Ctrl+C  
Cut Ctrl+X  
Delete Del  
Select All Ctrl+A  
Paste Ctrl+V  
Paste Special Ctrl+Left Alt+V  
Paste without formatting Ctrl+Shift+V  
Remove Links and Clear Formatting Ctrl+Space  
Find Ctrl+F  
Redo Ctrl+Y  
Undo Ctrl+Z  
Apply Paragraph style Ctrl+Shift+N

X

Apply Heading 1 style Ctrl+Left Alt+1

X

Apply Heading 2 style Ctrl+Left Alt+2

X

Apply Heading 3 style Ctrl+Left Alt+3

X

Apply Heading 4 style Ctrl+Left Alt+4

X

Apply Heading 5 style Ctrl+Left Alt+5

X

Apply Heading 6 style Ctrl+Left Alt+6

X

Insert Hyperlink Ctrl+K  
New Page Ctrl+G  
New Post Ctrl+N  
Open Post Ctrl+O  
Post and Publish Ctrl+Shift+P  
Post Draft to blog Ctrl+Shift+D  
Save Ctrl+S  
Print Ctrl+P  
Insert Picture from File Ctrl+J

X

Insert Picture from Web Ctrl+Shift+J

X

Switch to Source View Shift+F11  
Switch to Preview view F12  
Switch to Edit View F11  
Edit using Theme Ctrl+F11  
Post Properties Dialog F2  
Set focus in Post Properties field or Previous property field Shift+F6  
Set focus in Next Field of Post Properties F6  
Show Properties Pane dialog for selected field Ctrl+Shift+C  
Toggle sidebar for plug-ins F9  
Help F1  
Toggle ribbon visible state Ctrl+F1

X

It should be noted that Ctrl+L did an insert of a picture in Wave 3 but that has been replaced with Ctrl+J.

Update: It looks like I made this post over the post that contained the list for the Beta.  Oh well.  No one should be using the beta build now.

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  2. That’s a huge list. Thanks for comping it. Just blogged about it.

    Comment by IntoWindows — June 24, 2010 @ 7:34 AM

  3. Wow! dint know that we can toggle plugins sidebar quickly with F9. Is there a key to quickly toogle Edit/Preview/Source tabs? I thought Ctrl+tab would work…but doesnt seem to.

    Comment by Riyaz — June 24, 2010 @ 10:47 PM

    • As writtern in the post; F11 for Edit, F12 for Web Preview, Shift+F11 for Source

      Comment by Aaron Bregel — June 24, 2010 @ 11:04 PM

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  9. Superscript. Ctrl-Shift-U or Ctrl-Shift-Up would work. I had to write an addin for previous versions of LiveWriter so I could put in footnote markers without switching to the HTML view and edit manually. It’s nice to see it on the ribbon, but a shortcut would help.

    Subscript is less useful, I think, but others may use it often.

    Even better would be actual support for adding a footnote. Some renumbering and automatic internal anchors would be great. I thought about doing it, but it’s a moderately annoying addin to write.

    I would be very happy to settle for easy(ier) superscripts.

    Comment by Seth Morris — July 2, 2010 @ 1:07 PM

    • Yes we should add shortcuts for super/subscript. I think we will standardize those on what Office uses today if we can add this in:
      Ctrl+= for subscript
      Ctrl+SHIFT+PLUS SIGN for superscript

      Comment by Aaron Bregel — July 2, 2010 @ 2:01 PM

      • This is confusing to me. It works in WLW now, but it causes there to be a wider space between the lines where a superscript exists.

        Comment by Scrappy Genealogist — November 5, 2010 @ 11:18 AM

      • I have seen theme issues where the layout with super or subscript look a bit off in the editor. Things look fine in Web preview or publish along with if you turn off viewing with theme turned on.

        Comment by Aaron Bregel — November 5, 2010 @ 4:55 PM

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  16. Using Ctrl + Alt + 1..6 for header styles is just plain wrong! Why not just Ctrl + 1..6 ? I have a blog about development and I’m using a French keyboard (AZERTY layout), and some of the most frequently used characters in code are accessed with exactly those key combinations. Now I can’t type the following characters in Live Writer anymore: “~#{[|” ! I have to copy/paste them from somewhere else, or use Alt + ASCII code…

    Comment by Thomas Levesque — October 30, 2010 @ 2:18 PM

    • Using Ctrl + Alt + 1..6 for header styles is just plain wrong! Why not just Ctrl + 1..6 ? I have a blog about development and I’m using a French keyboard (AZERTY layout), and some of the most frequently used characters in code are accessed with exactly those key combinations. Now I can’t type the following characters in Live Writer anymore: “~#{[|” ! I have to copy/paste them from somewhere else, or use Alt + ASCII code… The shortcuts should at least be made configurable !

      Comment by Thomas Levesque — October 30, 2010 @ 2:20 PM

      • Ctrl+Alt+1-6 matches what Office does for Heading style so the design makes sense. What really is wrong here is that you should still be able to use AltGr to enter the characters on keyboards like the AZERTY, QWERTZ, QWERTZU, etc. so that it is not interpeted as a ribbon shortcut. Note that Ctrl+Alt+V for Paste Special could also be affected such as on a QWERTZ keyboard in Hungary. It’s unfortunate that no one raised the issue in Beta testing but only France had a localized build where a keyboard with the AltGr key is commonly used.

        This issue is top of mind with the team currently.

        Comment by Aaron Bregel — October 30, 2010 @ 4:17 PM

      • Aaron,

        Thanks for your answer. Now I see the logic in that decision, I didn’t realize it was the same shortcuts as in Office. Anyway, I can live with that, since I usually don’t write code directly in Live Writer… it’s just a minor inconvenience.

        By the way, I have a suggestion for the next version: it would be nice to have an option to format text as inline code (with the HTML code tag).

        Regards,
        Thomas

        Comment by Thomas Levesque — October 30, 2010 @ 4:28 PM

      • Thomas we release a fix for this AltGr problem today. If you download the Live Essentials suite it will contain the fix.

        Comment by Aaron Bregel — December 1, 2010 @ 9:23 PM

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