User Guide

Chapter 3: Basic Concepts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Watch the Status Bar

When the mouse is over

a symbol or template in

the Toolbar, the Status

Bar shows its keyboard

shortcut. You can list all

shortcuts by using the

Customize Keyboard

command or by looking

in the online help. See

Tutorial 16 in Chapter 4

for more information.

You can execute almost all MathType operations directly from the keyboard by

entering keystrokes while holding down the C

TRL (Control) key. For example,

you can insert a fraction template using C

TRL+F, i.e. by typing an F while holding

down the C

TRL key. Shortcuts of this sort are useful for advanced users,

especially expert touch-typists who like to keep their hands on the keyboard.

Some shortcuts require you to type two keystroke combinations consecutively.

For example, C

TRL+SHIFT+I, 2 is a shortcut that inserts a double integral

template. To type this, you must first type C

TRL+SHIFT+I by pressing all three

keys at the same time, release them, then type a 2.

In this manual, when a shortcut must be entered with the SHIFT key held down,

the S

HIFT key will always be mentioned explicitly (as in the example above).

Many of MathType’s shortcuts use non-alphabetic characters; they’ve been

chosen for their mnemonic value. For example, typing C

TRL+{ inserts the

template. In some cases, to generate the mnemonic character you must also hold

down S

HIFT. When documenting these kinds of shortcuts in this manual (and in

MathType itself) we do not explicitly state that the S

HIFT key needs to be held

down. However, when you enter the shortcut you need to be aware of this. So,

for example, the shortcut for inserting a

template is written as CTRL+{, not

TRL+SHIFT+[ or CTRL+SHIFT+{.