Shortcuts keys

Use shortcut keys to perform common tasks more quickly than with the mouse and menus. The following tables list all of Xiphos's shortcut keys.

Window selection/opening and navbar selection

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Focus and select the main verse navbar text. You can then immediately type in new verse selection text. Be aware that, as is the case with most Sword applications, Xiphos understands many abbreviations: "G" is adequate to specify Genesis, for example, and any book name by itself implies 1:1.

Ctrl+L

Bring the Commentary View forward when previously obscured by the Book View.

Alt+C

Focus on the general book.

Alt+G

Focus on the dictionary navbar text.

Alt+D

Open a new tab.

Ctrl+T

Make the tab #1 current.

Ctrl+1

Make the tab #2 current.

Ctrl+2

...

...

Make the tab #9 current.

Ctrl+9

Verse navigation and Bible features

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Previous verse

Ctrl+p

k

Next verse

Ctrl+n

j

Previous chapter

p

Next chapter

n

Previous book

P

Next book

N

Bring up the context menu for the Bible pane.

Shift+F10

Toggle Strong's display.

Alt+S

Toggle morphology display.

Alt+M

Toggle lemma display.

Alt+L

Toggle "red words of Christ" display.

Alt+R

Toggle transliteration.

Alt+T

Opening special windows

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Open this manual.

F1

Open the Preferences dialog.

F2

Open Advanced Search.

F3

Bring forward the simple sidebar search.

Ctrl+F3

Open the Module Manager.

F4

Open the current Bible as a separate window.

F11

Open an annotation dialog on the current verse.

Alt+A

Open a bookmark dialog on the current verse.

Alt+B

Open the "Find" dialog. The subwindow to which it applies depends on which of them are visible: The Bible is first preference, then the commentary or general book, then the dictionary. So a tab can be dedicated to just a book, and the "Find" will be performed within that pane.

Ctrl+F

Detach/re-attach the parallel view dialog.

Alt+P

Open editor on the personal commentary named Personal.

Alt+Z

Font size control

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Increase the base font size.

Ctrl++

Decrease the base font size.

Ctrl+-

Set the base font size to zero.

Ctrl+0

BibleSync

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Put BibleSync into Personal mode.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P

Put BibleSync into Speaker mode.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S

Put BibleSync into Audience mode.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A

Turn off BibleSync.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O

Cause BibleSync to navigate your current point as a one-shot event. BibleSync must be transmit-ready, that is, in Personal or Speaker mode. Use this when you have set BibleSync for "keyboard only" in Preferences.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N

Provide for sending chat messages to others.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C