Visual FoxPro supports keyboard shortcuts in these areas:
Menu commands
Window manipulation
Help
Properties window
Default macros definitions
Class Browser
| Shortcut | Command | Applies to |
| CTRL+A | Select All (Edit Menu) | Editing text |
| CTRL+C | Copy (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+D | Do (Program Menu) | |
| CTRL+E | Delete Item (Menu Menu) | Designing menus |
| CTRL+E | Do <program> (Program Menu) Run Form (Form Menu) |
Programs Form Designer |
| CTRL+F | Find (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+G | Find Again (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+H | Change Partitions (Table Menu) | Browse windows |
| CTRL+I | Insert Item (Menu Menu) | Designing menus |
| CTRL+J | Project Info (Project Menu) | Projects |
| CTRL+L | Replace (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+M | Resume (Program Menu) | Programs |
| CTRL+N | New (File Menu) | |
| CTRL+O | Open (File Menu) | |
| CTRL+P | Print (File Menu) | |
| CTRL+Q | Run Query (Query Menu)Quit (File Menu) | Queries When the Query Designer is not active, CTRL+Q closes the active window or dialog box. |
| CTRL+R | Redo (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+S | Save (File Menu) | |
| CTRL+T | Toggle Deletion Mark (Table Menu) | Browse windows |
| CTRL+V | Paste (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+W | Closes current text window or dialog box and saves changes. | |
| CTRL+X | Cut (Edit Menu) | |
| CTRL+Y | Append New Record (Table Menu) | Browse windows |
| CTRL+Z | Undo (Edit Menu) |
| Shortcut | Action |
| CTRL+F1 | Cycles windows |
| CTRL+F2 | Displays Command window |
| CTRL+F4 | Closes active window |
| CTRL+F5 | Restores maximized window |
| CTRL+F6 | Cycles windows |
| CTRL+F7 | Moves active window |
| CTRL+F8 | Sizes active window |
| CTRL+F9 | Minimizes active window |
| CTRL+F10 | Maximizes active window |
| CTRL+ALT+SHIFT | Hides all child windows while the keys are pressed down. Hiding windows makes it easy to see output displayed in the main application window. |
| F1 | Displays Help Contents or context-sensitive Help on active items (for example, a highlighted keyword in the Command window or the current property in the Properties window). |
| SHIFT+F1 | Enables user-prompted context-sensitive Help. The insertion pointer changes to a question mark so that you can click on an item (for example, a menu command or toolbar) to display context-sensitive Help. |
| CTRL+ALT+alpha | Selects the next property in the properties list that begins with the alpha character. For example, pressing CTRL+ALT+B selects the next property that begins with B. |
| CTRL+PAGE DOWN | Move to next object in drop-down Object list. |
| CTRL+PAGE UP | Move to previous object in drop-down Object list. |
| CTRL+END | Move to last object in drop-down Object list. |
| CTRL+HOME | Move to first object in drop-down Object list. |
| F2 | SET |
| F3 | LIST |
| F4 | DIRECTORY |
| F5 | DISPLAY STRUCTURE |
| F6 | DISPLAY STATUS |
| F7 | DISPLAY MEMORY |
| F8 | DISPLAY |
| F9 | APPEND |
Note The macro definitions apply to the Command window. You can change the macro definitions with the Macros command on the Tools menu.
| Shortcut | Action |
| F5 | Refreshes the current view. |
| SHIFT+F10 | Displays a shortcut menu. |
| Right-click+Open button Right-click+Add button Right-click+Component Gallery button |
Displays a history of last 32 files loaded. |
| Right-click+View Class Code button | Displays the class code in a webview form. |
| CTRL+Right-click+Class icon (in upper left corner of the Class Browser) |
Creates an instance of the class with the NEWOBJECT( ) function in the Command window. Identical to dragging the Class icon onto the Command window. |
| SHIFT+Right-click+Class icon (in upper left corner of the Class Browser) |
For forms, runs the form. For other controls and objects, creates an instance of the control or object. For controls, also adds the control to the Visual FoxPro desktop at 0,0. Identical to dragging the Class icon onto the Visual FoxPro desktop. |