IDM PowerTips
Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcut keys: Maximize your efficiency
One of UltraEdit’s most powerful features is its ease of navigation. Many users are unaware of the shortcuts available that add speed/efficiency to this powerful application. Use these shortcuts in your day-to-day use of UltraEdit and see how much easier your favorite text editor has made some simple tasks.
Please note, the shortcuts listed here are default shortcuts, feel free to customize your shortcuts as you would like.
Document Navigation Shortcuts
| Ctrl+Up | Scroll up one line keeping cursor in view |
| Ctrl+Down | Scroll down one line keeping cursor in view |
| F4 | Toggle focus between active file and Tree View if shown |
| Alt+Right | Position cursor at first not space character of next paragraph |
| Alt+Left | Position cursor at first not space character of current paragraph (if positioned mid-paragraph) or previous paragraph |
| Alt+Page Up | Position cursor beginning of first line in of the display |
| Alt+Page Down | Position cursor beginning of last line in of the display |
| Alt+'-' *NM | Position line with cursor at top of window |
| Alt+'+' *NM | Position line with cursor at bottom of window |
| Alt+"*" *NM | Position line with cursor at center of window |
| Ctrl+'1' *NM | Position the cursor at the end of the previous word |
| Ctrl+'2' *NM | Position the cursor at the end of the next word |
| Ctrl+F6 | Make the next document window active |
| Ctrl+Shift+F6 | Make the previous document window active |
| *NM : Will Only work on the numeric keypad. | |
Select/Delete/Insert Shortcuts
| Ctrl+Shift+Left (or Right) | Selects the word preceding (or following) the cursor |
| Ctrl+Backspace | Delete the word preceding the cursor |
| Ctrl+Delete | Delete the word following the cursor |
| Ctrl+I | Insert a literal character at the cursor position |
| INS | Toggle between Insert and Overstrike mode |
Hex Mode Shortcuts
| Ctrl+H | Toggle HEX editing mode |
| Ctrl+D | Insert or delete characters in HEX editing mode |
Bookmark Shortcut
| Ctrl+F2 | Toggle bookmark on and off |
| F2 | Goto next bookmark |
File Menu
| Ctrl+N | Create a new document file |
| Ctrl+O | Open an existing document file |
| Ctrl+Q | Open an existing document without showing File Open dialog |
| Ctrl+F4 | Close an existing document file |
| Ctrl+S | Save the active document |
| F12 | Save the active document as a new file |
| Ctrl+P | Print the active document |
Edit Menu
| Ctrl+X | Cut text from the document into the clipboard |
| Ctrl+C | Copy text from the document into the clipboard |
| Ctrl+V | Paste text from the clipboard into the active document |
| Ctrl+0-9 | Select active clipboard |
| Ctrl+A | Select All text in the active document |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo the last action if possible |
| Ctrl+Y | Reverse the last Undo action if possible |
| Ctrl+J | Select the current word (same as double click) |
| Ctrl+E | Delete line the cursor is on |
| Ctrl+F11 | Delete from the cursor to start of line |
| Ctrl+F12 | Delete from the cursor to end of line |
| Ctrl+W | Toggle Word Wrap on/off |
| F7 | Insert time/date at cursor |
Search Menu
| Alt+F3 or Ctrl+F | Find a character string |
| Ctrl+F3 | Repeat last find toward beginning of file |
| F3 | Repeat last find toward end of file |
| Ctrl+B | Find matching brace (,[,{ or },],) |
| Ctrl+R | Find and replace a character string with another |
| Ctrl+G | Goto the specified line (or HEX address) |
View Menu
| Ctrl+U | Toggle File Tree View |
| Ctrl+F8 | Toggle Tag List |
Format Menu
| Ctrl+T | Reformat the current paragraph or selected text |
| Ctrl+F5 | Convert selected text to lower case |
| ALT+F5 | Convert selected text to Upper case |
| F5 | Capitalize first character of each word in selected text |
| Shift+F5 | Invert case of all characters in selected text |
| Ctrl+K | Invoke the spelling checker |
| ALT+C | Toggle column/block mode on and off |
Macro Menu
| Ctrl+M | Replay a macro |
| Ctrl+L | Replay a macro the specified number of times |
DOS Menu
| F9 | Run DOS Window command |
| Ctrl+F9 | Repeat last DOS Window command |
| F10 | Execute Windows Program |
Help Menu
| Shift+F1 | Invoke the context help command and cursor |