Control the program using the keyboard

You can control the program using the keyboard. If you want to place objects and draw connections, you must have a mouse.

Keyboard shortcut

Effect

Alt + <letter>

Enables buttons in dialogs. The buttons with an underlined letter can be enabled in this way.

Alt + Enter

Opens the Properties dialog for the selected item.

Alt + F4

Exits the program. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can decide whether or not to save the changes.

Page Up

Moves the model window contents down (the contents of the model window that are further up will be displayed).

Page Down

Moves the model window contents up (the contents of the model window that are further down will be displayed).

Enter

Inserts a line break for free-form texts, object names, etc., or ends the input. This depends on whether you have enabled the Use Enter for line break (press 'Ctrl + Enter' for changes to take effect) check box or not (ARIS > Options > Model > General > Objects).

Del

Removes selected items.

Esc

Removes selections and closes dialogs. Closing dialogs with the ESC key is the same as clicking Cancel.

F1

Opens the embedded help for each dialog.

F2

Selects the selected text attribute of an element or the object name of a selected object for editing.

F5

Updates the current view based on the database changes.

F6

Toggles the connection mode (Connection mode Toggle connection mode in the Start tab bar).

F7

Runs an item's link that is entered as an attribute (System attributes > Link).

F8

Opens Attribute Editing for selected items.

F10

Activates the tab overview and tab bars.

Minus key (-)

Reduces the model by 10%.

Plus key (+)

Enlarges the model by 10%.

Left arrow

Moves the model window contents to the right (the contents of the model window that are further left will be displayed).

Up arrow

Moves the model window contents down (the contents of the model window that are further up will be displayed).

Right arrow

Moves the model window contents to the left (the contents of the model window that are further right will be displayed).

Down arrow

Moves the model window contents up (the contents of the model window that are further down will be displayed).

Asterisk key (*) on the numeric keypad

Places the entire model or selected objects entirely in the visible area.

Ctrl + A

Selects all items.

Ctrl + Alt + T

Opens the Tab overview.

Ctrl + Page Down

Switches to the next tab from left to right.

Ctrl + Page Down

Switches to the next tab from right to left.

Ctrl + C

Copies selected items to the clipboard. This enables you to paste copied items from the clipboard into models/diagrams and into other Windows programs. If you paste items into ARIS models/UML diagrams, they have their ARIS/UML-specific properties, e. g., attributes. If you paste them into other Windows programs, only the graphic in EMF format is used.

Ctrl + V

Generates occurrence copies of the selected items in the model.

Ctrl + Shift + V

Generates definition copies of the selected items.

Ctrl + E

Shows connected objects (navigation mode).

Ctrl + Enter

Inserts a line break for free-form texts, object names, etc., or ends the input. This depends on whether you have enabled the Use Enter for line break (press 'Ctrl + Enter' for changes to take effect) check box or not (ARIS > Options > Model > General > Objects).

Ctrl + End

Displays the bottom right pane of the window.

Ctrl + F

Opens the Find dialog for you to search the entire database for items.

Ctrl + F1

Opens Method help.

Ctrl + F2

Opens the print preview.

Ctrl + F4

Closes the active model window.

Ctrl + Left arrow

Moves selected items to the left by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Up arrow

Moves selected items upwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Right arrow

Moves selected items to the right by increments of one pixel..

Ctrl + Down arrow

Moves selected items downwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Home

Displays the top left pane of the model window.

Ctrl + S

Saves your changes.

Ctrl + Shift + F4

Closes all tabs and opens a new tab. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can decide whether or not to save the changes.

Ctrl + V

Pastes the content of the clipboard, if this is content that can be placed in the model window.

Ctrl + X

Cuts selected items and copies them to the clipboard.

Ctrl + Y

Redoes editing steps that were undone.

Ctrl + Z

Undoes preceding editing steps.

Tab

Opens the Select object dialog if you have entered at least two letters of the object name for an object.

Shift + Left arrow

Moves selected objects to the left by increments of one gridline.

Shift + Up arrow

Moves selected objects upwards by increments of one gridline.

Shift + Right arrow

Moves selected objects to the right by increments of one gridline.

Shift + Down arrow

Moves selected objects downwards by increments of one gridline.

See also

Control the program using keyboard and mouse