Arrow navigation in FM tables

[Peter Gold]

Hi, John:

You can read about customizing FrameMaker's menus and keystrokes in 
Customizing_FrameMaker_Products.pdf in the onlineManuals directory of 
your FrameMaker installation.

When you learn the notation of FrameMaker's universal (unix-originally) 
keystrokes, you'll be able to interpret the codes for table operations, 
and other stuff, too, that's listed in the command files. FrameMaker has 
keystroke sequences that are mostly mnemonic, for almost everything you 
can do with mice and menus.

Briefly, for some table operations:

NOTE: In this notation, "!" represents the Escape key.
NOTE: To perform an action, tap the keys in sequence; don't hold them 
down in combinations.
NOTE: Case matters.

To move around in a table:

! t m r (table move insertion pointer right one cell)
! t m l (table move insertion pointer left one cell) (l is lowercase ell)

To select in a table:

NOTE: To get the best mnemonic value from these sequences, think of 
"Highlight" rather than "Select"

! t h e (table highlight entry; that is, current cell)
! t h r (table highlight row)
! t h t (table highlight table)


HTH
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Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

John Pilla wrote:
> I recall (among other custom) configurations, 
> that when I last used FM (5.5) I was able to customize a file, 
> and thus enable using the arrow keys to navigate within an FM table. 
>
> (Why Adobe continues to leave this out - is a mystery to me.) 
>
> However, that was about 7 years ago. 
> So can someone refer me to where, if any - this is documented, 
> or how I might go about configuring FM to enable this? 
>
> Thanks. 
>