Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

TeXnicCenter allows you to customize the key combinations (shortcuts), necessary to invoke a command without using the mouse.

To customize the shortcuts, open the dialog Customization and select the tab 'Keyboard'.

The meanings of the controls are:

'Category'
  The category of the commands to display in the list 'Commands'.
'Commands'
  Commands available for the currently selected category. Select a command here to specify a shortcut for it.
'Description'
  A short description of the selected command.
'Set Accelerator for'
  Specifies the menu, for which to change the shortcuts. Has to be 'Default'.
'Current Keys'
  List of shortcuts currently assigned to the command selected in the list 'Commands'.
'Press new Shortcut Key'
  Press the key combination here, you would like to assign to the selected command.
'Assign'
  Add the shortcut shown in the field 'Press new Shortcut Key' to the list of shortcuts for the selected command.
'Remove'
  Remove the shortcut selected in the list 'Current Keys' from the list of shortcuts for the selected command.
'Reset All'
  Reset all shortcuts to the default. All the changes that have been made to the shortcuts since the installation of TeXnicCenter will be lost.