FrontPage Keyboard Shortcuts

• Page Shortcuts
• Formatting Shortcuts
• Table Shortcuts
• Miscellany Shortcuts
• Work with and manage Web pages
• Access and use views
• Work with coding and source navigation tools
• Format text and paragraphs
• Recommended Links

After approximately 20 years of using Frontage (I use it since 1996) I realized that my working habits in FrontPage that I spontaneously acquired during all those years of intensive daily usage are all wrong. That happened accidentally when I went to a conference and forgot my mouse.

I was forced to use keyboard shortcuts for a week and after that I realized how much time and effort I wasted for all those years. It simply amazing stupidity for a computer professional, who came from command line background.

Some very useful and enhancing productivity FrontPage shortcuts became evident to me only after ten or more years of usage ;-). Another problem is that brain capacity to remember keyboard shortcuts is limited and those that you use rarely are often forgotten and mouse and menu are used instead no matter how hard you try.

this problem is highly individual but for a giver program you usually can't remember more then a couple dozens of keystrokes. But you can split shortcuts into hierarchy of "mental pages" and this way you can actually remember much more, three dozens is not problem if they are split into multiple "mental pages" with 5-7 items in each.

That's why it is important to print cheat-sheet and put is over monitor when you are using Frontpage. Creation and maintenance of this cheat-sheet is an important productivity enhancing activity. This cheat sheet should consist of several "mental pages" with no more then a dozen related shortcuts in each.

It is very important distinguish between vital but non-obvious shortcuts and "junk" shortcuts. Among non obvious shortcuts that have potential to enhance your productivity I would mention the following (of course this is highly subjective rating):

• Ctrl-[, in code view ONLY: search matching tag

• Ctrl-;, in code view ONLY

• Ctrl-F2/F2/Shift-F2 is code view

• CTRL+SHIFT+C Copy formatting.
• CTRL+SHIFT+V Paste formatting

• CTRL+F-L Save all opened Web pages. Frontpage has a blunder in design -- it does not save your edited pages so if it freezes (which happen with some frequency), you lose all you edited pages at once. Using this shortcut is a great way prevent loss if information in case of Frontpage freeze or crush.
• ALT+F1. Hide or show the Folder List.
• Ctrl-Q -- Allows wrap tag about the selection in Design view. Very convenient for those tags that do not have icons such as tt, em, pre, etc. Found after ten years of use :-(.
• Ctrl-Enter shows you snippets list where you can select the snippet to be inserted. You can't control position of cursor after insertion (it is always at the end) and that's a huge drawback.
• CTRL+Spacebar Remove formatting
• Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown keys cycle back and forth through all of the available page views (Normal, HTML, and Preview).
• Ctrl-Tab Cycle around all opened pages. Sometimes more convenient then mouse. Ctrl-Shift-Tab key does the same in opposite direction.
• Ctrl-/ -- You can display the HTML tags in the Normal view by hitting .
• CTRL+A Select all
• If you hold down the Alt key while clicking inside of a table, you can select individual cells. Then you can copy/cut and paste those cells elsewhere.
• Ctrl + K. If your hyperlink text triggers the spell-checker the text will get a red squiggly line under it and when you right mouse click on the link, you'll see spell checking options but not the hyperlink options. To edit the hyperlink, highlight the hyperlink text and press Ctrl + K. This will open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box and you can edit your hyperlink.
• F5 - Refresh a Web page; refresh the Folder List; when in Split view, refreshes Code view changes in Design view. If the page on the disk changed, this is an optimal method of retrieving the updated version

Those are mostly unique for FrontPage.

Again, I would like to stress that in order to train yourself to use them printing "cheat-sheets" an putting it over the monitor is necessary for most people. You can use a thin PCB cooking board to attach it above the monitor, or use some other method (if monitor is close the wall the wall can be used). Base for a flag also can be used.

Otherwise you soon forget the shortcut and return to an old way of doing the same staff. Printed cheatsheet serves as your long-term memory and you can gradually polish it. It is important to limit yourself to just one double spaced sheet (say 20 shortcuts). Excessive zeal in using shortcuts in counterproductive. See also Frontpage Tips

Many Frontpage keystrokes are also used with other members of Microsoft Office family such as MS Word and Excel, so as such they are easier to remember then unique for FrontPage keystrokes. Here Microsoft has done an excellent job in unifying interfaces between components of the Office (generally Office is a masterpiece of Microsoft software; more so then Windows).

Among those that matter we can mention:

1. Ctrl-Alt-digit -- put header tag H1,H2, H3 and so on on the selection
2. F7 -- Check spelling on a Web page.
   • SHIFT+F7 Look up a word in the thesaurus.
3. CTRL+N Create a new Web page.
   • CTRL+O Open a Web page.  In combination with recent pages can be used for quick accessing recent folders and the most recent pages.
   • CTRL+F4 Close a Web page.
4. CTRL+F Find text or HTML on a Web page.
5. F3 Find the next occurrence of the most recent search.
   • CTRL+F3 Find the next occurrence of the current selection;
   • CTRL+SHIFT+F3 Find the previous occurrence of the current selection.
   • SHIFT+F3 Find the previous occurrence of the most recent search.
6. CTRL+H Replace text or HTML on a Web page.  this also allows access to stored search&replace macros.
7. CTRL+Z or ALT+BACKSPACE Undo an action. CTRL+Y or SHIFT+ALT+BACKSPACE Redo or repeat an action.
8. CTRL+B -- Bold; CTRL+I -- Italics
9. CTRL+L -- Left justified
   • CTRL+E -- Center justified (adds align="center" )
   • CTRL+R -- Right justified
10. CTRL+M -- Increase indent; CTRL+SHIFT+M -- Decrease indent

Reference

Here is the source of your inspiration ;-). There are way too many of them, so chose wisely :-)

Page Shortcuts

• CTRL+K Edit hyperlink.
• CTRL+SHIFT+B Preview page in browser.
• CTRL+PAGEDOWN or CTRL+PAGEUP Switch between Normal, HTML, and Preview views.
• CTRL+SHIFT+8 Hide/Show non-printing characters.
• CTRL+/ Display HTML tags.
• CTRL+TAB or SHIFT+CTRL+TAB Switch between open pages.
• CTRL+F4 Close a page.
• ALT+F4 Quit FrontPage.
• F7 Check spelling.
• SHIFT+F7 Check thesaurus.

Formatting Shortcuts

• CTRL+SHIFT+F Change font.
• CTRL+SHIFT+P Change font size.
• CTRL+PLUS SIGN Apply superscript formatting.
• CTRL+MINUS SIGN Apply subscript formatting.
• CTRL+SHIFT+C Copy formatting.
• CTRL+SHIFT+V Paste formatting.
• CTRL+SHIFT+Z or CTRL+SPACEBAR Remove manual formatting.
• CTRL+L Left align a paragraph.
• CTRL+E Center align a paragraph.
• CTRL+R Right align a paragraph.
• CTRL+M Indent a paragraph.
• CTRL+SHIFT+M Outdent a paragraph.
• CTRL+SHIFT+S Apply a style.
• CTRL+SHIFT+N Apply the normal style.
• CTRL+ALT+N  Apply heading tag H1, H2, ...., H6.
• CTRL++ Apply/unapply superscript formatting.
• CTRL+= Apply/unapply subscript formatting.
• CTRL+SHIFT+L Apply the List style.
• SHIFT+ENTER Insert a line break.
• CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR Insert a non-breaking space.

Table Shortcuts

• CLICK at left or top edge to select a row or column.
• CLICK and drag at left or top edge to select multiple rows or columns.
• ALT+CLICK just outside of the left or top edge to select the table.
• CLICK in a cell to edit its contents.
• CLICK in a corner cell and then SHIFT+CLICK in another cell to select a block of cells.
• ALT+CLICK in a cell to select cell.
• CTRL+ALT+CLICK in cell to add to or delete cell from current selection of cells even if cell is non-contiguous.
• CTRL+ALT+CLICK and drag around to add cells to current selection of cells.

Miscellany Shortcuts

• ALT+F1. Hide or show the Folder List.
• CTRL+SHIFT+B or F12. Preview the current page in a browser.
• CTRL+;. To find the corresponding beginning or ending tag in Code view.

Work with and manage Web pages

Access and use views

Work is code view and source navigation tools

Format text and paragraphs

NEWS CONTENTS

• [Dec 11, 2014] Deleting tail of the line
• [Nov 24, 2014] Ctrl-Backspace -- delete till the beginning of the current word
• [Aug 13, 2014] Useful shortcut -- Shift+F7 Look Up a word in the thesaurus.
• Frontpage hotkeys and shortcuts Computer support articles

Old News ;-)

[Dec 11, 2014] Deleting tail of the line

Shift-End, Del

[Nov 24, 2014] Ctrl-Backspace -- delete till the beginning of the current word

[Aug 13, 2014] Useful shortcut -- Shift+F7 Look Up a word in the thesaurus.

Frontpage hotkeys and shortcuts Computer support articles

Common hotkeys in FrontPage to help you be more productive

FrontPage is a full-featured HTML editor. In addition to common text file editing, many other functions are included, such as table layouts, and a complete list of HTML tags. Below are the keystrokes required to perform almost any command available in FrontPage. For page designers, knowing these hotkeys will greatly increase performance and productivity.
Common Tasks

F8         Run the accessibility checker.
Ctrl+N     Create a new Web Page.
Ctrl+O     Open a Web Page.
Ctrl+F4    Close a Web Page.
Ctrl+S     Save a Web Page.
Ctrl+P     Print a Web Page.
F5         Refresh a Web Page or Folder List in Split view.
           Refresh Code view changes in Design view.
Ctrl+Tab    Switch between open Web Pages.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab   Switch between open Web Pages in reverse order.
Ctrl+Shift+B   Preview a Web Page in a Web browser.
Alt+F4     Quit Microsoft FrontPage.
Ctrl+ Shift+8   Display nonprinting characters.
Ctrl+ /    Display HTML tags in Design view.
Ctrl+F     Find text or HTML on a Web Page.
F3         Find the next occurrence of the most recent search.
Shift+F3   Find the previous occurrence of the most recent search.
Ctrl+F3    Find the next occurrence of the current selection.
Ctrl+Shift+F3   Find the previous occurrence of the current selection.
Ctrl+H     Replace text or HTML on a Web Page.
F7         Check spelling on a Web Page.
Shift+F7   Look Up a word in the thesaurus.
ESC        Cancel an action.
Ctrl+Z or Alt+Backspace  Undo an action.
Ctrl+Y or Shift+Alt+Backspace  Redo or repeat an action.
Alt+F6    Move through open dialog boxes.
Alt+Shift+F6   Move through open dialog boxes in reverse order.
Delete    Delete a Web Page or folder in Folder List or dialog boxes.
Backspace Move Up one level.

Access and use views

F12 Preview the current Page in a Web browser.
Ctrl+Page Down or Ctrl+Page Up Move between Code, Design, Split, and Preview views.
Alt+Page Down or Alt+Page Up Move between Code and Design panes in Split view.
Alt+F1 Show or hide the Folder List.
F2 Rename the currently selected file in the Folder List.
Ctrl+J Check out the currently selected file in the Folder List.
Ctrl+Shift+J Check in the currently selected file in the Folder List.
Up, Down, Left, or Right Arrow In links view, move through link nodes.
Shift+Right Arrow Expand current node and move to Right in links view.
Shift+Left Arrow Expand current node and move to Left in links view.
Ctrl+T Move through AutoFilter column settings in Reports view.

Work with coding tools

Ctrl+Q Quick tag editor.
Ctrl+F2 Insert temporary bookmark.
F2 Next temporary bookmark.
Shift+F2 Previous temporary bookmark.
Ctrl+G Go to line.
Ctrl+L AutoComplete.
Ctrl+ENTER Insert code snippet.
Ctrl+. Insert end tag.
Ctrl+, Insert start tag.
Ctrl+/ Insert HTML comment.
Ctrl+Space Complete word.
Ctrl+: Select tag.
Ctrl+; Find matching tag.
Ctrl+’ Select block.
Ctrl+[ Go to definition of function.
Ctrl+] Find matching brace.

Format text and paragraphs

Ctrl+Shift+F Change the font.
Ctrl+Shift+P Change the font size.
Ctrl+B Apply bold formatting.
Ctrl+U Apply an underline.
Ctrl+I Apply italic formatting.
Ctrl++(Plus) Apply superscript formatting.
Ctrl+= Apply subscript formatting.
Ctrl+ Shift+C Copy formatting.
Ctrl+Shift+V Paste formatting.
Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Space Remove manual formatting.
Ctrl+E Center a paragraph.
Ctrl+L Left align a paragraph.
Ctrl+R Right align a paragraph.
Ctrl+M Indent a paragraph from the Left.
Ctrl+ Shift+M Indent a paragraph from the Right.
Ctrl+ Shift+S Apply a style
Ctrl+Shift+ N Apply the Normal style.
Ctrl+Alt+1 Apply the Heading 1 style.
Ctrl+Alt+2 Apply the Heading 2 style.
Ctrl+Alt+3 Apply the Heading 3 style.
Ctrl+Alt+4 Apply the Heading 4 style.
Ctrl+Alt+5 Apply the Heading 5 style.
Ctrl+Alt+6 Apply the Heading 6 style.
Ctrl+ Shift+L Apply the List style.

Edit and move text and graphics

Backspace Delete one character to the Left.
Delete Delete one character to the Right.
Ctrl+Backspace Delete one word to the Left.
Ctrl+Delete Delete one word to the Right.
Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert Copy text or graphics.
Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete Cut selected text to the Microsoft Office Clipboard.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert Paste the Clipboard contents.
Shift+ENTER Insert a line break.
Ctrl+Shift+Space Insert a non-breaking space.

Select text and graphics

Shift+Right Arrow Move one character to the Right.
Shift+Left Arrow Move one character to the Left.
Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow Go to the end of a word.
Ctrl+Shift +Left Arrow Go to the beginning of a word.
Shift+END Go to the end of a line.
Shift+HOME Go to the beginning of a line.
Shift+Up Arrow Move one line Up.
Shift+Down Arrow Move one line Down.
Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow Go to the end of a paragraph.
Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow Go to the beginning of a paragraph.
Shift+Page Down Move one screen Down.
Shift+Page Up Move one screen Up.
Ctrl+A Select the entire Page.
Alt+ENTER Display the properties of a selection.

Work with Tables, graphics, and links

Shift+Ctrl+Alt+T Insert a Table.
Tab Select the next Table cell’s content.
Shift+Tab Select the preceding Table cell’s content.
Shift+ Left or Right Arrow Extend a selection to adjacent cells in a row.
Shift+ Up or Down Arrow Select a column.
Ctrl +T With the graphic selected, create an auto thumbnail.
Ctrl+K Create a link on a Web Page.

Recommended Links

Softpanorama Recommended

Keyboard shortcuts - Frontpage - Office.com

FrontPage 2000 Tutorial · FGCU Technology Skills Orientation

Etc

Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

Quotes

War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes :  Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce :  Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS :  Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development :  Scripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month :  How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite

Most popular humor pages:

Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor

The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D

The statements, views and opinions presented on this web page are those of the author (or referenced source) and are not endorsed by, nor do they necessarily reflect, the opinions of the Softpanorama society. We do not warrant the correctness of the information provided or its fitness for any purpose. The site uses AdSense so you need to be aware of Google privacy policy. You you do not want to be tracked by Google please disable Javascript for this site. This site is perfectly usable without Javascript.

Last modified: April, 12, 2016