Keyboard Shortcuts

Everything in Inkwell can be done with the mouse, but these shortcuts save a lot of round-trips to the toolbar.

Mod means Ctrl on Windows and Linux, Cmd on a Mac.

You don't have to remember the table: hover over a toolbar button, or an item in the Insert menu, and its tooltip ends with its shortcut, written the way your computer writes them — Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux, ⌘B on a Mac.

Formatting

Shortcut	Effect
Mod-B	Bold
Mod-I	Italic
Mod-U	Underline
Ctrl-Alt-1	Section heading
Ctrl-Alt-2	Subsection heading
Ctrl-Alt-3	Subsubsection heading

Heading levels nest, so a level is only available where it makes sense — you cannot make a Subsection without a Section above it. If a shortcut appears to do nothing, check the style dropdown: the level you asked for is probably greyed out.

Inserting

Shortcut	Effect
Ctrl-4	Inline math
Ctrl-E	Quote a Bible passage
Ctrl-Alt-F	Footnote
Ctrl-Alt-M	Comment
Ctrl-Alt-V	Verse number†
Ctrl-Alt-C	Scripture chapter number†
Mod-Enter or Shift-Enter	Line break within a paragraph

Editing

Shortcut	Effect
Mod-Z	Undo
Mod-Y or Mod-Shift-Z	Redo
Mod-F	Open Find & Replace
Ctrl-H (Cmd-Shift-H on a Mac)	Open it in Replace mode
Mod-Shift-F	Clear the current search

Replace mode is not Mod-H on a Mac because Cmd-H hides the browser. Either shortcut also works with Find & Replace already open, switching it to that mode.

In Find & Replace

In Replace and Format mode, one suggestion at a time is highlighted in yellow. These act on it and move the highlight on to the next, wherever the cursor is in the dialog — even while you are still typing in the Find or Replace box:

Shortcut	Effect
Alt-A	Accept the highlighted suggestion
Alt-R	Reject it, leaving that match as it is

On a Mac, Alt is the Option key. See Tools.

In a comment

Shortcut	Effect
Mod-Enter	Send the comment or reply
Escape	Close the box, keeping what is in it
Mod-B / Mod-I / Mod-U	Bold / italic / underline
@	Name a collaborator

Enter inside a comment starts a new line rather than sending it, so a comment can offer two possible fixes on two lines.

Tab

Tab and Shift-Tab do whichever is appropriate to where you are:

• In a table, move to the next or previous cell.
• In a list, indent or outdent the item.

Inside a table, Arrow Up and Arrow Down move between rows.

Typing shortcuts

Some things are easier to type than to insert. Inkwell rewrites these as you go:

Type this	Get this
--	An em dash —
...	An ellipsis …
" and '	Curly quotes, opening or closing to match the context
# at the start of a line	Section heading
## / ###	Subsection / Subsubsection heading
$x^2$	Inline math
\[	A display-math paragraph, with the cursor in it
\v 3	A verse number, as in USFM†
\c 12	A scripture chapter number, as in USFM†

† Only in a scripture edition — switch on Chapters and Verses under General in Project Settings, and see Chapter And Verse. In an ordinary project these do nothing, and \v stays the text you typed.

If a substitution is not what you wanted, Mod-Z immediately afterwards reverts just the substitution and leaves what you typed.

The quote substitution also applies in the Search and Replace boxes, so that what you type there matches the quotes in your manuscript. There, paste a straight quote rather than typing one when you want to search for straight quotes; see Tools.

Cross-references

Typing one of these words followed by a space opens a reference picker, so you can point at a chapter, appendix, heading, equation, figure, or table and let Inkwell keep the number correct:

• Chapter
• Appendix
• Section
• Equation
• Figure
• Table

Choose from the list with the arrow keys and Enter. The reference updates itself if things move around later, which is why it is worth using instead of typing the number.

Appendix follows the Label you set in Project Settings → Appendices — rename it to "Annex" and "Annex " is what opens the picker. Each of your callout kinds is a trigger of its own as well, under the kind's own name.