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Move the focus through the controls in a panel
1 Press Tab when the focus is currently applied to the Panel menu. To move the focus through the controls in the
panel, press Tab repeatedly.
To activate the currently selected panel control, press Enter (Windows only).
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Navigate dialog box controls using keyboard shortcuts (Windows only)
• To move through the controls in the dialog box, press Tab.
• To move through the controls within one section of a dialog box, press Up Arrow and Down Arrow.
• To activate the button (equivalent to clicking the button), when the focus is applied to a dialog box control button,
press Enter.
• To apply the current settings and close the dialog box (equivalent to clicking OK), when the focus is not applied
to any dialog box control button, press Enter.
• To close the dialog box without applying the changes (equivalent to clicking Cancel), press Escape.
• To view the Help content for the dialog box (equivalent to clicking Help), when the focus is applied to the Help
button, press Enter or Spacebar.
Select the Stage or objects on the Stage using keyboard shortcuts
Selecting the Stage with a keyboard shortcut is equivalent to clicking on the Stage. Any other element currently
selected becomes deselected when the Stage is selected.
After the Stage is selected, use the Tab key to navigate through all objects on all layers, one at a time. You can select
instances (including graphic symbols, buttons, movie clips, bitmaps, videos, or sounds), groups, or boxes. You cannot
select shapes (such as rectangles) unless those shapes are instances of symbols. You cannot select more than one
object at a time using keyboard shortcuts.
To select Objects on the Stage, use the following criteria:
• To select the previous object when an object is currently selected, press Shift+Tab.
• To select the first object that was created on the active frame in the active layer, press Tab. When the last object on
the top layer is selected, press Tab to move to the next layer beneath it and select the first object there, and so on.
• When the last object on the last layer is selected, press Tab to move to the next frame and select the first object on
the top layer there.
• Objects on layers that are hidden or locked cannot be selected with the Tab key.
• To select the Stage, press Control+Alt+Home (Windows) or Command+Option+Home (Macintosh).
• To select an object on the Stage, with the Stage selected, press Tab.
Note: If you are currently typing text in a box, you cannot select an object using the keyboard focus. You must first change
the focus to the Stage and then select an object.
Navigate tree structures using keyboard shortcuts
To navigate tree structures, the hierarchical displays of file structures in certain Flash panels, use keyboard shortcuts.
• To expand a collapsed folder, select the folder and press Right Arrow.
• To collapse an expanded folder, select the folder and press Left Arrow.
• To move to the parent folder of an expanded folder, press Left Arrow.
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