Short-cut Keys for the Integrated Resource Editor

The IRE provides accelerators that allow you to select functions quickly through the keyboard instead of always using the action-bar menus. The following table shows the defined accelerator for each of the IRE applications.
Ctrl+A File Save as Save as
Ctrl+C Edit Styles Edit styles
Ctrl+D   Duplicate
Ctrl+F   Set initial focus
Ctrl+G Options Arrange controls Arrange controls
Ctrl+I   Align controls
Ctrl+L   Display tools
Ctrl+M Options Arrange menus Arrange menus
Ctrl+N File New New Design file
Ctrl+O File Open Open Design file
Ctrl+P   Save window position
Ctrl+R   Replace controls
Ctrl+S File Save Save Design file
Ctrl+T   Test window or dialog box
Ctrl+V   View window or dialog boxes list
Ctrl+W Edit New New window or dialog
F1 Help General help Help
F4 Search Next Search for next occurrence of an item
Del Edit Delete Control Delete selected controls
Ctrl+Ins Edit Copy Copy window or dialog box to clipboard
Shift+Del Edit Cut Cut window or dialog box to clipboard
Shift+Ins Edit Paste Paste window or dialog box from clipboard to file.
Alt+Ins Edit Paste File Paste from file
Alt+Ctrl+M File Merge Merge file

Accelerator Definitions

The following is a list of possible definitions for accelerators. These values can be selected within the IRE through the Resource Accelerator menu item.

Characters
Note that only the uppercase alphabetic characters are shown; the equivalent lowercase characters also apply.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Numerics

 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0

Mouse Buttons

 Button 1
 Button 2
 Button 3

Editing Keys

 Backspace
 Delete
 Enter
 Insert

Movement Keys

 Back Tab       Break          Down           End

 Enter          Home           Left           New Line

 Page Down      Page Up        Right          Space

 Tab            Up

Control Keys

 Alt            AltGraf        Break          Caps Lock

 Ctrl           Enter          Esc            Num Lock

 Pause          Print Scrn     Scrl Lock      Shift

 SysRq

Function Keys

 F1             F2             F3             F4

 F5             F6             F7             F8

 F9             F10            F11            F12

 F13            F14            F15            F16

 F17            F18            F19            F20

 F21            F22            F23            F24