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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
ShortcutDescription
Alt+AAccess actions from within a document
Alt+accelerator keyAccess higher-level menus (for example, Alt+F opens File menu)
Alt+DownOpen 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+MinusOpens 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+SpacebarOpens 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 keysNavigate days via date picker in calendar
Arrow keys, Left and RightNavigate tabs or a horizontal list
Arrow keys, Up and DownNavigate a vertical list, such as a menu, navigator, calendar time slots, or items in a list view
Alt+BAccess Open menu and open the applications and bookmark list
Ctrl+1Open Mail
Ctrl+2Open Calendar
Ctrl+3Open Contacts
Ctrl+5Left sidebar Closed
Ctrl+6Left sidebar Thin
Ctrl+7Left sidebar Open
Ctrl+8Right sidebar Thin
Ctrl+9Right sidebar Open
Ctrl+0Right sidebar Closed
Ctrl+F7Access the sidebar
Ctrl+FOpens the Find dialog box from views
Ctrl+F1(Linux® only) Get Help on current feature
Ctrl+F8, then Up and Down arrow keys, then EnterMove to selected window tab
Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page DownNavigate pages in calendar
Ctrl+RReply to mail or calendar entry
Ctrl+Shift+RReply to All on mail or calendar entry
Ctrl+Shift+LOpen list of available shortcuts
Ctrl+TabNavigate forward in tab order
Ctrl+VPaste Special
Ctrl+Shift+VPaste as plain text
Ctrl+WCloses current tabbed page
EnterExpand or collapse a category or folder
EscCloses current tabbed page, collapses current thread, or exits current element
F1Get Help on current feature

Linux users: Use Ctrl+F1 instead.

F6Cycles 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.)
MinusCollapse a category or folder
Shift+F10Open a context menu
Shift+PlusExpand a category, folder, or thread
Shift+TabNavigate backward in tab order
TabNavigate 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.


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