Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
TeXnicCenter allows you to customize the key combinations (shortcuts), necessary to invoke a command without using the mouse.
To customize the shortcuts, you have to open the customization dialog and select the 'Keyboard' page.
The meanings of the controls are:
- 'Category'
- The category of the commands to display in the 'Commands' list.
- 'Commands'
- Commands available for the currently selected category. Select a command here to specify a shortcut for it.
- 'Description'
- A short description of the selected command.
- 'Set Accelerator for'
- Specifies the menu, for which to change the shortcuts. Has to be 'Default'.
- 'Current Keys'
- List of shortcuts currently assigned to the command selected in the 'Commands' list.
- 'Press new Shortcut Key'
- Press the key combination here, you would like to assign to the selected command.
- 'Assign'
- Add the shortcut shown in the 'Press new Shortcut Key' field to the list of shortcuts for the selected command.
- 'Remove'
- Remove the shortcut selected in the 'Current Keys' list from the list of shortcuts for the selected command.
- 'Reset All'
- Reset all shortcuts to the default. All the changes that have been made to the shortcuts since the installation of TeXnicCenter will be lost.