HOW TO: Use the F4 shortcut key to save time
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:36 am
Did you know the F4 key is quite powerful, useful, and time-saving?
If you are doing a repetitive operation with a text inserter command, or a text selection or sort command then you can use F4 to quickly repeat the last command.
For example, if you want to place <code> tags around a lot of little pieces of text throughout a document then you can do the following:
Then save the config file and reload it (User > Reload Configuration).
If you are doing a repetitive operation with a text inserter command, or a text selection or sort command then you can use F4 to quickly repeat the last command.
For example, if you want to place <code> tags around a lot of little pieces of text throughout a document then you can do the following:
- Make sure the HTML Inserter is visible (View > Toolbars > Inserters> HTML).
- Select the first piece of text in the document and choose C > <code>|</code> from the HTML Inserter.
- For every other little piece of text you want to surround in <code> tags, simply select it and press F4 to repeat the last text insertion command.
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<tag menu='S' flags='32' inserttext='<span class="myclass">|</span>'/>