Veritas Enterprise Administrator User"s Guide (5900-1505, April 2011)

About mnemonics

Mnemonics are single key strokes, used to activate components such as menu

items. A single mnemonic is equivalent to a mouse click. A mnemonic can be used

to select a menu item by pressing the Alt key to go into menu pull-down mode,

pressing a single key to open a menu and another key to select a menu item. For

example:

■ <Alt> to go into menu pull-down mode

■ <f> key to access the File menu

■ <o> to activate the “open” command

Mnemonics are case insensitive. Keys can be pressed sequentially instead of

simultaneously.

Keyboard mapping conventions

Exceptions and additions to the Microsoft Keyboard Conventions are listed in:

■ Veritas Enterprise Administrator exceptions to Microsoft keyboard conventions

■ Veritas Enterprise Administrator additions to Microsoft keyboard conventions

■ Veritas Enterprise Administrator help additions to Microsoft keyboard

conventions

Veritas Enterprise Administrator exceptions to Microsoft

keyboard conventions

Table 3-1 summarizes the keyboard differences between the VEA implementation

of mnemonics and accelerators, and the Microsoft keyboard convention:

Table 3-1

VEA exceptions to Microsoft keyboard conventions

AcceleratorMnemonicConvention

Alt C, EscapeCCancel

Alt OOOK

NoneERefresh

NoneNoneYes

EscapeNoneNo

Alt AAShift+F10

Accessibility

Keyboard shortcuts