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Most operations in Opera can be executed by using the keyboard. Below is a list of functions associated with keys, organised by usage. In addition, all the functions in the main menu can be accessed by using the normal Windows method in conjunction with the Alt key (eg. Alt + F and then P to print a document).

TIP: The shortcut CTRL-M opens a context-specific submenu. In mouse-mode, this can be accessed using the right mouse button.

Document management
Read document from local disk CTRL+O
Save active document CTRL+S
Print out active document CTRL+P
View source code CTRL+F3
View frame source code ALT+F3
Navigating and display
Previous link in a document CTRL+Up or Q
Next link in a document CTRL+Down or A
Previous document in history CTRL+Left or Z or ALT+Left
Next document in history CTRL+Right or X or ALT+Right
End of form, normal navigation possible F9
Loading of documents
Stop loading the document in the active window Esc
Reload document F5
CTRL+R
Reload frame ALT+F5
Load document under the active link Enter or Space
Load document under the active link in a new window SHIFT+Enter or SHIFT+Space
Load document under the active link in a new window in the background (provided 'auto tile windows' is DISABLED SHIFT+CTRL+Enter or SHIFT+CTRL+Space
Toggle the graphic loading of the active window between: load and show all graphics; show only loaded graphics; don't show any graphics G
Toggle the display between document and user settings. Very helpful for badly legible pages. CTRL+G
Display local window menu CTRL+M
Display menu for chosen link CTRL+L
Jump between all headers W/S
Jump between all elements E/D
Hot list and direct access
Go to the homepage (window's homepage if defined, or the global homepage) CTRL+Home
CTRL+Space
Display direct addressing window / Enter URL directly F2
Activate the nickname window for quick hotlist access SHIFT-F2
Hide/Display the hotlist window SHIFT+F7
CTRL+F2
Activate the hotlist for keyboard navigation F7
Activate the hotlist menu CTRL+M
Add active document to the (sub)folder CTRL+T
Jump between elements in (sub)folder Tab
Open the items or (sub)folder's properties dialog box Alt-Enter
Cut hotlist entry CTRL+X
Copy hotlist entry CTRL+C
Paste hotlist entry into selected folder CTRL+V
Delete hotlist entry Del
Select all hotlist entries CTRL+A
Change sort order on hotlist 'Title' column (toggle) ALT+1
Change sort order on hotlist 'Last Visited' column (toggle) ALT+2
Change sort order on hotlist 'Created' column (toggle) ALT+3
Go to URL/address field F8
Display history list for active window H
Editing and searching
Copy marked text CTRL+C
Cut out marked text form text area CTRL+X
Paste in text from clipboard CTRL+V
Mark all text CTRL+A
Search in active document F3
Scrolling
One line up Up
One line down Down
One character to the right Left
One character to the left Right
One window up PageUp
One window down PageDown
Window left CTRL+PageUp
Window right CTRL+PageDown
Beginning of document Home
End of document End -
Hide/display scrollbar CTRL+F7
Zooming
Zoom up 10% + or 0
Zoom down 10% - or 9
Jump Zoom to 100% 6 or *
Zoom up by 100% 7 or CTRL+"+"
Zoom down by 100% 8 or CTRL+"-"
Forms
Next element in a form Tab
Previous element in a form SHIFTt+Tab
Out of form, normal navigation possible F9
Subject Groups
Subscribe/cancel subscription to a group S
Mark an article in a group window as read/unread R
Open/close a group of subject groups or articles O
Retrieve a group/article Return
Go to the previous group/article CTRL+Up or Q
Go to next group/article CTRL+Down or A
Scroll one window up in article window SHIFT+PageUp
Scroll one windows down in article window SHIFT+PageDown
Read previous article E
Read next article D
Window management
Cascade the windows SHIFT+F5
Tile all windows to fill the workspace SHIFT+F6
Switch to previous document window SHIFT+CTRL+TAB or 1
Switch to next document window CTRL+Tab or 2
Hide/display scrollbar CTRL+F7
Hide/display progress display CTRL+F8
Hide the Opera window title bar F11
Hide/display main menu bar (File | Edit | View).
If you can't make this work, edit OPERA.INI in your \WINDOWS directory, and change SHOW MENU=0 to SHOW MENU=1
CTRL+F11
Next frame 3
Minimizes current document window 4
Maximizes current document window 5
Help
Display help file, contents dependent on context F1
Display this page CTRL+B

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