Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts are most useful for actions you repeat many times: confirming a segment, moving to the next one, opening a resource panel, or adding a comment. Searchspeare lets you inspect the assigned bindings and change them.

Quick steps

Open Settings → Shortcuts, find a command, and check its assigned keys and workspace. Edit the combination, resolve any reported conflict, save, and try it in the relevant editor.

Find a command's shortcut

Open Settings → Shortcuts, or use the shortcut tools in the editor. Search for the command name and check its current key combination and page context.

The displayed binding is the authority for your setup. It can differ from another user's binding because shortcuts are customizable. Many command buttons also show their shortcut in a tooltip.

Assign a shortcut

1. Find the command in the shortcut manager.
2. Open its shortcut editor.
3. Press the combination you want to use.
4. Resolve any conflict reported by the editor.
5. Save the change.
6. Return to the relevant workspace and try it with a suitable selection.

You can also open the shortcut editor from supported command context menus. Use the available clear or reset actions when you want to remove a binding or return to the default.

Right-click a toolbar command and choose Change shortcut.

The editor shows the current binding and the Save and Cancel controls.

Choose shortcuts for frequent actions

Begin with three or four frequent actions instead of changing everything at once. Group related actions in a way you can remember, and avoid combinations needed for entering characters in your working languages.

Keep document navigation, text selection, and command execution distinct. A key pressed while typing may be handled by the editor; the same key in a menu, search field, or dialog can have another purpose.

If a shortcut does nothing

First check the command is available on the current page and that any required segment or text is selected. Close open menus and focus the intended editor.

Then check the binding in the manager. Your browser or operating system may reserve the combination. Common examples are Ctrl+L for the address bar and Ctrl+T for a new browser tab. Choose a different binding if the browser takes the action before Searchspeare can handle it.

For the hold-to-dictate shortcut in the desktop app, see Desktop dictation.

The documentation website has its own shortcuts: Ctrl+K opens documentation search. That is separate from shortcuts configured inside the Searchspeare app.