Keyboard shortcuts and navigation

This page is opened by Navigate › Shortcut And Navigation. It lists the shortcuts of Bernard 2.1.48, view by view. The keys are those of a Windows keyboard.

Everywhere

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+Home`	go to the studio root (Navigate › Go To Root)
`Home`	select the parent of the selection (Navigate › Select Parent)
`Ctrl+Shift+L`	open the Bernard Log journal (Windows › Bernard Log)
`Ctrl+C`, `Ctrl+X`, `Ctrl+V`	copy, cut, paste objects (right-click menu Copy, Cut, Paste)

Navigating between objects

The selection is shared: an object chosen in one view is shown in the others.
The breadcrumb of the Property panel is clickable: it goes up to the parents.
Select Backward / Select Forward: the arrows of the Property panel walk through the history of your selections.
Drag and drop: drop objects onto a spreadsheet to widen its scope.

Tree View

Shortcut	Effect
`F`	expand the tree down to the selected object; hovering over the view is enough to give it the keyboard
`F2`	rename the selected object
`Del`	delete the selection, after confirmation

Spreadsheet (Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet Multi)

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+C`	copy the selection as a table, ready to paste into Excel
`Ctrl` + wheel	zoom the thumbnails, in thumbnail mode

Activity View

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+C`	copy the table selection (Copy)

Property panel

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl` + wheel on the header	adjust the size of the thumbnail and of the title

Nodal View

Shortcut	Effect
wheel	zoom
middle button, or `Alt` + drag	pan
`A`	frame everything
`F`	frame the selection
`Enter`	select the chosen tasks in the other views
`Ctrl+A`	select all
`Ctrl+C`, `Ctrl+X`, `Ctrl+V`	copy, cut, paste tasks (the links between them are kept)
`Del`	delete the selected tasks
`Ctrl+G`	create a compound from the selected tasks (workflow being edited)
double-click on a compound	expand or collapse it

Path Edit

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+F`	search in the expressions
`Ctrl+H`	search and replace
`F3` / `Shift+F3`	next / previous result
`Esc`	close the search bar

Expression editor

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+Space`	show the autocompletion suggestions
`Esc`	close the suggestions

Planning View

These shortcuts work when the focus is in the Planning View (Gantt or workload).

Time scale (zoom)

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+1`	Day zoom: a scale in days
`Ctrl+2`	Week zoom: a scale in weeks
`Ctrl+3`	Month zoom: a scale in months
`Ctrl+0`	Fit zoom: the planned dates of the Gantt fill the width
`Ctrl++` or `Ctrl+=`	zoom in (x 1.25)
`Ctrl+-`	zoom out
`Ctrl` + wheel on a timeline	zoom in or out around the pointer

The same Day, Week, Month and Fit presets are buttons in the zoom section of the Gantt; the one that matches the current scale is lit until you zoom by hand. The zoom is bounded, and it is saved with the tab.

Planning dates

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+Z`	undo the last date change made in the planning
`Ctrl+Y` or `Ctrl+Shift+Z`	redo the undone change
`Esc`	while dragging a bar, cancel the drag: the bar goes back to its place

Moving around, selecting

Shortcut	Effect
`Space`	go back to today
`F`	in the Gantt tree or on the Gantt, show the selected tasks in the workload (Workload); in the workload, show the selected task in the Gantt
`Ctrl+T`	in the workload, switch between displays: budget (Bid), time spent (TimeLog), then both
arrows, `Page Up` / `Page Down`, `Home`, `End`	walk through the Gantt tree

Notes

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+Enter`	publish the note or the correction (OK button)

Import windows (Import From Files, Import From Table)

Shortcut	Effect
`Ctrl+V`	Import From Table: paste the table copied from Excel or Google Sheets. Import From Files: paste into the selected cells
`Ctrl+Shift+V`	Import From Files: paste the text only, without the expressions copied from this table
`Ctrl+C`	Import From Files: copy the table selection
`Del`	Import From Files: clear the selected editable cells

See Import, export and logs.

Image viewer

Shortcut	Effect
`Space`	play / pause
`←` / `→`	previous / next frame
`Ctrl+S`	save the image
`Ctrl+C`	copy the image
`Del`	delete the selected annotation

Windows

Shortcut	Effect
`Enter`	log in, in the login window
`Esc`	close the welcome screen or the About Bernard window