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Chapter 11. Keyboard Shortcuts

On Mac OS X modifier key is cmd, on other platforms it is Ctrl.

File Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
New Model All Modifier+N
Open Model All Modifier+O
Open SQL Script SQL Editor Modifier+Shift+O
Close Tab All Modifier+W
Save Model Model Modifier+S
Save Script SQL Editor Modifier+S
Save Model As Model Modifier+Shift+S
Save Script As SQL Editor Modifier+Shift+S
Forward Engineer SQL CREATE Script Model Modifier+Shift+G
Forward Engineer SQL ALTER Script Model Modifier+Alt+Y
Synchronize With SQL CREATE Script Model Modifier+Shift+Y
Print EER Diagram mode only Modifier+P
Exit All Modifer+Q

Edit Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Undo Model, EER Diagram Modifier+Z
Redo Model, EER Diagram Modifier+Y, Modifier+Shift+Z (Mac OS X)
Cut All Modifier+X
Copy All Modifier+C
Paste All Modifier+V
Delete All Modifier+Delete, Command+BackSpace (Mac OS X)
Edit Selected Model, EER Diagram Modifier+E
Edit Selected in New Window Model, EER Diagram Modifier+Shift+E
Select All EER Diagram Modifier+A
Find All Modifier+F
Find Advanced All Modifier+Alternate+F
Find Next All F3
Find Previous All Shift+F3
Search and Replace All Modifier+Shift+F

View Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Output Window All Modifier+F2, Modifier+Option+2 (Mac OS X)
Set Marker n EER Diagram Modifier+Shift+n (n is integer 1..9)
Go to Marker n EER Diagram Modifier+n (n is integer 1..9)

Arrange Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Bring to Front EER Diagram Modifier+Shift+F
Send to Back EER Diagram Modifier+Shift+B

Model Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Add Diagram Model, EER Diagram Modifier+T
Validate All Model, EER Diagram Modifier+Alt+V
Validate All (MySQL) Model, EER Diagram Modifier+Alt+B
Model Options Model, EER Diagram Command+Alternate+, (Shorcut only available on Mac OS X)

Query Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Execute statement SQL Editor Modifier+Return
Execute statements SQL Editor Modifier+Shift+Return
New Tab SQL Editor Modifier+T

Database Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Query Database All Modifier+U
Reverse Engineer Model, EER Diagram Modifier+R
Forward Engineer Model, EER Diagram Modifier+G
Synchronize Model Model, EER Diagram Modifier+Y

Scripting menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Scripting Shell All Modifier+F3, Modifier+Option+3 (on Mac OS X)
Run Workbench Script File All Modifier+Shift+R

Help Menu

Function Context Keyboard Shortcut
Help Index All F1, Command+Option+question (on Mac OS X)

EER Diagram Mode

In the EER Diagram view, there are a number of other keyboard shortcuts available.

Function Keyboard Shortcut
Selection tool Escape
Hand tool H
Delete tool D
Layer tool L
Note tool N
Image tool I
Table tool T
View tool V
Routine Group tool G
Non-Identfying Relationship 1:1 1
Non-Identfying Relationship 1:n 2
Identifying Relationship 1:1 3
Identifying Relationship 1:n 4
Identifying Relationship n:m 5
Relationship Using Existing Columns 6