Can we get Hot Keys in the Metadata window?

[wildchild1954]

I've been logging a lot of books into my Calibre program and fixing the metadata is getting to be real hard on my wrist! First you move all over in the fields then you have to go down and click on Next to get to the next book in line. I've got upwards of 1,000 books in epub, txt, drf, docx, and PDF formats and once all in and corrected I'll be converting them all into epub's.

I've been importing into Calibre from my current computer and the two hard drives from my old computer and the defunct laptop. So if anyone can tell me how to make Hot Keys for the OK, Previous, Next, and Cancel buttons I'll be your slave for live. (Which won't be long as I'm already almost 70!!)

[theducks]

Youngster
Hover the mouse over the buttons, if there is a tool tip, it will give you the keystrokes.
Also
Preferences:Shortcuts has a list of tasks that will accept/have shortcuts.
Adjust the assignments to tast

Got hard drives from the old PC? Get a drive clone cable (allows temporary drive connection), then Use the menu on the Library Icon to link the library on the old drive to Calibre. Switch to the drive: Select books:right click:Copy to Library: <the new on on the PC>. Presto...All the metadata and stuff is transfered. You can select in bulk.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by wildchild1954

So if anyone can tell me how to make Hot Keys for the OK, Previous, Next, and Cancel buttons I'll be your slave for live. (Which won't be long as I'm already almost 70!!)

OK - Enter
Previous - Alt+← (left arrow)
Next - Alt+→ (right arrow)
Cancel - Escape

I think they are fixed assignments - i.e. baked into code.

Don't forget you can edit cells in the book list, by pressing F2 and tabbing through columns - then you can order the columns in the sequence that suits you.

BR