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Select panels or the Property inspector with keyboard shortcuts
To select a panel or the Property inspector (also referred to as applying focus to the panel or Property inspector), use
the keyboard shortcut Control+F6 (Windows) or Command+F6 (Macintosh).
Apply focus to a panel or the Property inspector only when the panel or Property inspector is visible in the appli-
cation window. The panel can be expanded or collapsed.
When you use the keyboard shortcut to select panels, focus is applied to panels using the following criteria:
• Docked panels are given focus first.
• If the Timeline is showing and docked, the Timeline is given focus the first time you press Control+F6 (Windows)
or Command+F6 (Macintosh).
• If the Timeline is not showing and docked, or if you press the keyboard shortcut again, focus moves to the
rightmost and highest docked panel. Pressing the keyboard shortcut repeatedly then moves the focus through the
other docked panels, from right to left and from top to bottom of the workspace.
• If you move the focus through all the docked panels, or if no docked panels are showing, focus moves to the
rightmost and highest floating panel. Pressing the keyboard shortcut repeatedly then moves the focus through the
other floating panels, from right to left and from top to bottom of the workspace.
Use keyboard shortcuts to select or deselect, expand, or collapse panels or the Property inspector
• To move the focus through the panels currently displayed in the workspace, press Control+F6 (Windows) or
Command+F6 (Macintosh). A dotted line appears around the title of the currently focused panel.
• To move the focus to the previously selected panel, press Control+Shift+F6 (Windows) or Command+Shift+F6
(Macintosh).
• To deselect a panel, press Escape, or move, dock, or undock the panel.
• To move the focus to the panel above or below the current panel in a panel group, press Up Arrow or Down Arrow.
• To hide all panels and the Property inspector, press F4. To display all panels and the Property inspector, press F4
again.
Use keyboard shortcuts to expand or collapse panels or the Property inspector
1 Press Control+F6 (Windows) or Command+F6 (Macintosh) until the panel to expand or collapse has focus. A
dotted line appears around the title of the currently focused panel.
To expand or collapse the currently selected panel, press the Spacebar.
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Select controls in a panel or the Property inspector using keyboard shortcuts
To move the focus through the panel controls when a panel or the Property inspector has the current focus, use the
Tab key. To activate the control that has the current focus, use the Spacebar (that is, pressing Spacebar is equivalent
to clicking a control in the panel).
When you use the keyboard shortcut for panel controls, focus is applied to a control and the control is activated using
the following criteria:
• To select a control in the panel with the Tab key, the panel with the current focus must be expanded. If the panel
is collapsed, pressing Tab has no effect.
• When the panel with the current focus is expanded, pressing Tab the first time moves the focus to the panel's Panel
menu.
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