22 Keyboard Shortcuts for Working with Text in LabVIEW
Double-click Selects a single word in a string.
Triple-click Selects an entire string.
Ctrl-Right arrow Moves forward in a string by one word when using text that has characters that use single bytes, such as Western character sets. Moves forward in a string by one character when using text that has characters that use multiple bytes, such as Asian character sets.
Ctrl-Left Arrow Moves backward in a string by one word when using text that has characters that use single bytes, such as Western character sets. Moves backward in a string by one character when using text that has characters that use multiple bytes, such as Asian character sets.
Home Moves to the beginning of the current line in a string.
End Moves to the end of the current line in a string.
Ctrl-Home Moves to the beginning of the entire string.
Ctrl-End Moves to the end of the entire string.
Shift-Enter Adds new items when entering items in enumerated type controls and constants, ring controls, and constants, or Case structures. In string constants, press the Shift-Enter keys on the keyboard to disable autosizing if it is enabled. If auto-sizing is disabled, press the Shift-Enter keys on the keyboard to display a scroll bar in the constant.
Ctrl-Shift-Enter Duplicates the visible subdiagram of a Case structure when editing the text of the case selector label.
Esc Cancels current edit in a string.
Ctrl-Enter Ends text entry.
Ctrl-= Increases the current font size.
Ctrl-- Decreases the current font size.
Ctrl-0 Displays the Font Style dialog box.
Ctrl-1 Changes to the Application font in the Font Style dialog box.
Ctrl-2 Changes to the System font in the Font Style dialog box.
Ctrl-3 Changes to the Dialog font in the Font Style dialog box.
Ctrl-4 Changes to the current font in the Font Style dialog box.
Ctrl-B Bolds text.
Ctrl-I Italicizes text.
Ctrl-U Underlines text.
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