BOOK DESIGNER HOT KEYS
In order to activate hot keys, left-click somewhere inside the main Book Designer window.
F1 - help
F2 - find/replace
F3 - spell check
F4 - bookmarks
F5 - run Citation Editor
F6 - fonts
F7 - colors
F8 - switch between Microsoft/Book Designer scroll
F9 - settings menu
F10 - run Book Corrector
F11 - run Book Browser
F12 - run File Converter
Ctrl+F1 - make rb-file
Ctrl+F2 - make lit-file
Ctrl+F3 - make Palm or Pocket PC file
Ctrl+F4 - make Hiebook file
Ctrl+F5 - make Fiction Book file
Ctrl+Ins (Ctrl+C) - copy
Shift+Ins (Ctrl+V) - paste
Ctrl+Z - undo
Ctrl+Y - redo
Esc - returns to global font settings.
Book Designer supports two types of font setting: global and local which are assigned through "Fonts" and "Colors" menus. These settings include font type, font size, and font color settings. The global settings affect the whole book text, while the local ones affect the selected text fragments only.
When you are typing being in the editor mode, Book Designer keeps the last local settings for the text under typing. If you want to come back to the global settings, make a space, type the first letter of a new word starting from which you want to apply global settings, and press "Esc".
Example. Assume that your global settings are: font: Times New Roman, font size: small, color: blue. Using these settings you have typed "global settings". Then you switched to: font: Impact, font size: medium, color: red and have typed "local settings". Now you want to type "back to global settings" using again the global font settings. To do it, type the first letter "b" of the word "back", press "Esc" and continue your typing. As a result you get:
If you want to assign the global setting for some text fragment, select it and press "Esc".
Alt-F (Esc) - remove font formatting from the selected text
Ctrl+B - convert selected text to bold. The reverse operation is performed by pressing the buttons again.
Ctrl+I - convert selected text to italic. The reverse operation is performed by pressing the buttons again.
Ctrl+U - underline the selected text. The reverse operation is performed by pressing the buttons again.
Ctrl+1 - Ctrl+4 - insert 1-4 non-broken spaces. If a text of some paragraph is fully justified, word separations are chosen automatically. However if you want to keep a separation between some words always the same, put a non-broken space instead of normal space between the corresponding words.
Alt+C - sets current color to selected text (available when the "HTML Colors" window is open).