Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts for Table Navigation

Analytica supports almost all the standard shortcuts for tables offered by Microsoft Excel. See Shortcuts for Table Navigation for details.

Tab as a shortcut

• tab:
  • In a Diagram window, select the next node, from left to right, then up to down
  • In an Object window, select the next Attribute field
  • In a table, select the next cell
• shift+tab: Select the previous node, Attribute, or cell -- i.e. the reverse of tab without shift.

Shortcuts for Toolbar buttons

• F1: Open the Analytica User Guide PDF
• F2: : Open Diagram window containing the selected node.
• F3: : Open the Outliner window
• F4: : Open the Object window for selected node.
• F5: : Open the Result window for the selected variable. (same as CTRL+R)
• F6: : Edit the definition (script for Button) of selected Variable or Function (same as CTRL+E) in Attribute Panel or Object window, depending on setting in Preferences... dialog.
• F7: : Enter browse mode
• F8: : Enter Edit mode
• F9: : Enter Arrow mode.

Shortcuts for menus

• F10: Select the main menu bar.
  • Use left or right arrow or a letter to select a menu.
  • Use up or down arrow or a letter to select an option in that menu.
• F11: Toggle between Edit/Arrow editing modes ( ←→ ). In Analytica 3.1, this was F2.
• F12, or CTRL+F12: Open/close typescript window

Shortcuts using control by letter

• CTRL+A: Select All nodes in a diagram, text in a definition, or cells in a table.
• CTRL+B: Open Number Format dialog
• CTRL+C: Copy selected node(s), text, cell or region of a table.
• CTRL+D: Duplicate selected node(s)
• CTRL+E: Edit definition of selected node in Attribute pane
• CTRL+F: Open Find dialog to find an object by identifier or title. In a table, Find will search table.
• CTRL+G: Find next matching item from Find dialog.
• CTRL+H: Find object with identifier matching the text you have selected -- e.g. in a definition.
• CTRL+I: Insert a new row or column after the row or column you have selected in an Edit table.
• CTRL+J: In a Diagram, align selected node(s) to grid
• CTRL+K: Kill (delete) the row or column you have selected in an Edit table.
• CTRL+L: Open dialog to Add Module...
• CTRL+M: Make an alias from the selected node(s).
• CTRL+N: Start a New Model
• CTRL+O: Open a model file
• CTRL+P: Print the current Diagram, Graph
• CTRL+Q: Exit (Quit) the model.
• CTRL+R: Show result for selected variable(s)
• CTRL+S: Save the model
• CTRL+T: Adjust selected node(s) to their default size
• CTRL+U: Open Uncertainty Options... dialog
• CTRL+V: Paste text, cell or region of a table, or selected nodes.
• CTRL+W: Close the model
• CTRL+X: Cut selected text or node(s).
• CTRL+Y: Toggle between viewing titles and identifiers
• CTRL+Z: Undo last action (typing text or moving or resizing node(s)
• CTRL+. (CTRL+dot): Stop the computation in progress.
• CTRL+Break: Stop the computation in progress.
• CTRL+' (CTRL+apostrophe): Open/close Typescript window. On some non-English keyboards, this combination is not available. In those cases, use F12.

Shortcuts for adding nodes to a diagram

• CTRL+1: New Decision node
• CTRL+2: New Variable node
• CTRL+3: New Chance node
• CTRL+4: New Objective node
• CTRL+5: New Module node
• CTRL+6: New Index node
• CTRL+7: New Constant node
• CTRL+8: New Function node
• CTRL+9: New Text node
• CTRL+0: New Button node

Shortcuts when editing a definition or other attribute

• CTRL+click on a node: When you are editing the Definition (or other attribute) in an Attribute panel, CTRL-click on another node in the same diagram inserts its identifier into the Definition. This shortcut is very handy when writing a complex expression.
• Enter
• Return
• CTRL+Return

• CTRL+right-arrow: Move right one token (identifier or operator)
• CTRL+left-arrow: Move left one token (identifier or operator)
• CTRL+ALT+left-arrow: Find left paren that matches the right paren currently at the left of the caret.
• CTRL+ALT+right-arrow: Find right parent that matches the left parent currently to the right of the cursor.
• SHIFT+(any of the above): Select the characters between.

(More to be listed)

Shortcuts when editing a diagram

• Arrow: Move selected node(s) in direction of the arrow by a grid increment, if snap to grid is set -- otherwise, by one pixel.
• SHIFT+arrow: Move selected node(s) in direction of the arrow, by one pixel if snap to grid is set -- otherwise, by one grid increment.
• CTRL+left-arrow: Align left edges
• CTRL+F9: Align horiz center
• SHIFT+F9: Align vert centers of selected nodes
• CTRL+right-arrow: Align right edges
• CTRL+=: Align left and right edges of selected nodes
• CTRL+up-arrow: Align tops of selected nodes
• CTRL+down-arrow: Align bottoms of selected nodes

These shortcuts use two keystrokes in sequence -- not pressed together:

• =,right-arrow: Make selected nodes the same width as the first selected node
• =,down-arrow: Make selected nodes the same height as the first selected node
• =,=: Make selected nodes the same width and height as the first selected node