Help Viewer Shortcuts

Most of the features of the help viewer are accessible from the keyboard. When you first open the viewer, keyboard focus is on the Back button. The traversal order goes from the toolbar to the selected tab to the left content pane and then to the right pane.

The following table lists the keystrokes most commonly used to navigate the viewer.

 

KeysAction
Ctrl-TabShifts focus to the next component
Ctrl-Shift-TabShifts focus to the previous component
Up arrowSelects the previous item in the TOC or the index
Down arrowSelects the next item in the TOC or the index
Ctrl-TShifts focus to the next link in a topic
Ctrl-Shift-TShifts focus to the previous link in a topic
Ctrl-spacebarFollows a link in a topic