Control the table using the keyboard

Keyboard shortcuts can be performed on selected items. Selected items can be identified by the focus in the program.

Selection marker that marks the item that is selected. There are certain occurrences of selection markers, such as text cursors.

The focus is usually surrounded by colored frames, which can be dashed or solid.

You can often start actions for the selected items using the Enter key or the space bar.

You can control the modeling table using the keyboard:

How to model an EPC using the keyboard (video 4 min. 23 sec.)

How to model a BPMN diagram using the keyboard (video 2 min. 31 sec.)

Shortcut

Selection

Action

Arrow keys

Table

Moves to next column/row in direction of arrow.

Ctrl + End

Table

Activates the last cell in the modeling table.

Ctrl + Home

Table

Activates the first cell in the modeling table.

Ctrl + Shift + Ins

Operator

Creates split paths.

Del

Object name

Deletes the object from the model.

End

Table

Activates the last column in the current row.

Enter

Name column activated

Jumps to the next cell or ends editing.

F2

  • Name cell

  • Activates the name editing mode.

  • Description/Definition cell

  • Opens the Description/Definition dialog. The description/definition can be edited.

  • Object cell

  • Opens the object symbol list if symbols can be inserted.

  • Attribute cell

  • Opens the Edit attribute dialog.

Home

Table

Activates the first column in the current row.

Ins

Table

Adds an object row.

PageDown

Table

Scrolls one page down.

PageUp

Table

Scrolls one page up.

Shift + F2

BPMN container cell

Enables renaming of the container.

Shift + Tab

Table cell

Activates the next cell to the left.

Tab

Table cell

Activates the next cell to the right.

ARIS video tutorial

Table-based modeling in ARIS (, )