Navigating a Database Diagram

You can move around in a database diagram by using the keyboard or the mouse.

To use the mouse, click to select an object. To use the keyboard, refer to the following table for keyboard navigation methods.

To Press
Move from a table cell to the table’s title bar ESC
Move from a table’s title bar to the last cell you edited ENTER
Move from table title bar to table title bar, or from cell to cell
inside a table
TAB
Expand a list inside a table ALT +
DOWN ARROW
Scroll through the items in a drop-down list from top to bottom DOWN ARROW
Move to the previous item in a list UP ARROW
Select an item in a list and move to the next cell ENTER
Change the setting in a check box SPACEBAR
Go to the first cell in the row, or to the beginning of the current cell HOME
Go to the last cell in the row, or to the end of the current cell END
Scroll to the next “page” inside a table, or to the next “page”
of the diagram
PAGE DOWN
Scroll to the previous “page” inside a table, or to the previous “page” of the diagram PAGE UP

  


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