Navigate tree structures using keyboard shortcuts, Work with library items using keyboard shortcuts – Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual

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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.

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 techniques:

To select an object on the Stage, with the Stage selected, press Tab.

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.

Note: If you are currently typing text in a box, you cannot select an object using the keyboard focus. You must first press the Escape key and
then select an object.

Navigate tree structures using keyboard shortcuts

To navigate tree structures, the hierarchical displays of file structures in certain Flash Professional 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.

To move to the child folder of an expanded folder, press Right Arrow.

Work with library items using keyboard shortcuts

1. To copy or paste a selected library item, press Control+X (Windows) or Command+X (Macintosh) to cut the item, or press Control+C

(Windows) or Command+C (Macintosh) to copy the item.

2. To paste a cut or copied item, click the Stage or in another library to set the insertion point, and press Control+V (Windows) or Command+V

(Macintosh) to paste in the center of the Stage; or press Control+Shift+V (Windows) or Command+Shift+V (Macintosh) to paste in place (in
the same location as the original).

To cut, copy, and paste items, use the following techniques:

Cut or copy one item or multiple items.

Cut or copy an item from the Library panel and paste it onto the Stage or into another library, or paste a folder into another library.

You cannot paste a shape from the Stage into the library.

You cannot paste a library item into a common library, because common libraries cannot be modified. However, you can create a
common library.

When you paste a library item onto the Stage, the item is centered.

If you paste a folder, each item in the folder is included.

To paste a library item into a folder in the destination library, click the folder before pasting.

You can paste a library item into a different location in the same library where it originated.

If you attempt to paste a library item into a location containing another item by the same name, select whether to replace the existing
item.