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About HCL Notes
The following topics provide information about HCL Notes.
Accessibility features for Notes®
Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products.
Keyboard shortcuts
You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in HCL Notes®.
Keyboard shortcuts to change text and paragraph properties in a document
You can use different keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.

About HCL Notes
The following topics provide information about HCL Notes.
- Accessibility features for Notes®
  Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products.
  - Keyboard shortcuts
    You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in HCL Notes®.
    - General keyboard shortcuts
      You can use different keyboard shortcuts to navigate through HCL Notes®. Note that Ctrl+Shift+L is a keyboard shortcut that displays a list of other available, useful shortcuts.
    - Keyboard shortcuts for applications
      Keyboard shortcuts help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use applications successfully.
    - Keyboard shortcuts for properties boxes
      You can use a number of keyboard shortcuts when using properties boxes.
    - Keyboard shortcuts to select and move text in a document
      You can use keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - Keyboard shortcuts to move the cursor in a document
      You can use different keyboard shortcuts to move the cursor when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - Keyboard shortcuts to change text and paragraph properties in a document
      You can use different keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.
    - Keyboard shortcuts for the Macintosh
      You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and perform tasks in HCL Notes®.
    - Using Unicode to add special characters to documents
      You can create or read documents that contain special characters that aren't found on your default keyboard, such as an ae dipthong (Æ), a pound sign (£), or a plus/minus sign (+/-).
    - Special characters listed by extended compose sequence
      A compose sequence is a string of keystrokes that produces a special character. You can use a compose sequence or an extended compose sequence to add a special character to a document.
- Getting Help
  You can get help that is specific to many of the tasks you are performing, or you can open complete Help on all areas of HCL Notes®.

Keyboard shortcuts to change text and paragraph properties in a document

You can use different keyboard shortcuts when you are creating or editing a mail message or a document.

You must be in edit mode to use the following shortcuts. Press Ctrl+E to put your document in edit mode.

Table 1. Text and paragraph shortcuts
Shortcut	Description
Ctrl+B	Bold selected text
Ctrl+E	Put document in either read or edit mode
Ctrl+F	Find text and replace
Ctrl+G	Find next word when Find text and replace starts
Ctrl+I	Italicize selected text
Ctrl+J	Format paragraphs (alignment, spacing, etc.)
Ctrl+K	Format text (font, size, color, etc.)
Ctrl+R	Show/Hide ruler
Ctrl+T	Change text style to Normal Text
Ctrl+Shift+L (Notes Basic client)	Insert page break (Notes Basic client)
Ctrl+U	Underline selected text
Ctrl+Z	Undo last action
F2	Enlarge selected text to next available point size
F7	Indent first line in paragraph
F8	Indent entire paragraph
F9	Refresh current document (in edit mode), view, or workspace
F11	Cycle through paragraph styles (defined in the Paragraph Styles tab in Text Properties)
Shift+F2	Reduce selected text to next available point size
Shift+F7	Outdent first line in a paragraph
Shift+F8	Outdent entire paragraph