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Delphi Shortcut Keys

Object Inspector ShortCut Keys

Ctrl+DwnArr Makes the Object ComboBox drop Down and gives it focus.
Ctrl+Tab Switches Between Events and Properties.
Ctrl+Enter Executes a dialog associated with a property, and makes an event handler procedure.
Alt + DwnArr If the property is a drop down list, it will drop down this list.


IDE ShortCutKeys

F1 Displays context-sensitive Help
F4 Run|Go to Cursor
F5 Run|Toggle Breakpoint
F7 Run|Trace Into
F8 Run|Step Over
F9 Run|Run
F11 View|Object Inspector
F12 View|Toggle Form/Unit
Ctrl+F2 Run|Program Reset
Ctrl+F3 View|Call Stack
Ctrl+F4 Close the Focused Page in the Delphi Source Editor
Ctrl+F5 Executes the Watch List and the Watch Properties dialogs
Ctrl+F7 Executes the Evaluate Modify Dialog
Ctrl+F9 Compile application
Ctrl+F12 Executes the 'View Unit' Dialog
Ctrl+Spc Brings up the Code Completion Window.
Ctrl+Enter When Done in the Source Code Editor, it executes the Open Dialog Box
and populates the file name with the word that the cursor was and populates the file name with the word that the cursor was
nearest to with an extension of .pas. It also opens up in the current directory.
Ctrl+Home Top of Source File
Ctrl+End End of Source File
Ctrl+Del or Del Delete a component from the form
Ctrl+C Copy Selected block to the Clipboard
Ctrl+E Incremental Word search within a Source file.
Ctrl+F Full word search.
Ctrl+J Code Completion Window
Ctrl+K+E Changes a word to lowercase
Ctrl+K+F Capitalize word to the Left of cursor
Ctrl+K+N Changes a block to uppercase
Ctrl+K+O Changes a block to lowercase
Ctrl+K+P Executes the Print Dialog Box
Ctrl+K+R Reads a block from a file
Ctrl+K+T Highlight word to the left of cursor
Ctrl+K+W Writes a selected block to a file
Ctrl+O+G Search|Go to line number
Ctrl+O+O Inserts compiler options and directives
Ctrl+O+U Toggles Upper/Lower case of highlighted text
Ctrl+P Causes next character to be interpreted as an ASCII sequence
Ctrl+R Search and Replace a word
Ctrl+S Save a Source file
Ctrl+T Delete a word at a time
Ctrl+V Paste from the Clipboard
Ctrl+X Cut Selected block to the Clipboard
Ctrl+Y Delete a line of UNHIGHLIGHTED Source Code
Ctrl+Z Undo Changes
Ctrl+0 Goes to bookmark 0
Ctrl+1 Goes to bookmark 1
Ctrl+2 Goes to bookmark 2
Ctrl+3 Goes to bookmark 3
Ctrl+4 Goes to bookmark 4
Ctrl+5 Goes to bookmark 5
Ctrl+6 Goes to bookmark 6
Ctrl+7 Goes to bookmark 7
Ctrl+8 Goes to bookmark 8
Ctrl+9 Goes to bookmark 9
Ctrl+Shift+Spc Brings up the Code Parameters Window.
Ctrl+Shift+G Creates and displays a GUID
Ctrl+Shift+I Indents a highlighted block of text
Ctrl+Shift+P Plays back a key macro
Ctrl+Shift+R Records a key macro
Ctrl+Shift+U OutDents a Highlighted block of text
Ctrl+Shift+Y Deletes to the End of the Line.
Ctrl+Shift+Z Redo Changes
Ctrl+Shift+0 Sets or removes bookmark 0
Ctrl+Shift+1 Sets or removes bookmark 1
Ctrl+Shift+2 Sets or removes bookmark 2
Ctrl+Shift+3 Sets or removes bookmark 3
Ctrl+Shift+4 Sets or removes bookmark 4
Ctrl+Shift+5 Sets or removes bookmark 5
Ctrl+Shift+6 Sets or removes bookmark 6
Ctrl+Shift+7 Sets or removes bookmark 7
Ctrl+Shift+8 Sets or removes bookmark 8
Ctrl+Shift+9 Sets or removes bookmark 9
Alt+F4 Closes Focused Window
Alt+F6 Switches between the last 2 objects that had focus in the IDE
Alt+F10 Executes a Right Click in the Source Code Editor
Alt+F12 View Form as Text
Alt+Spc Current Windows' System Menu
Alt+0 Executes the Window List dialog
Shift+F7 Trace to next Source Line
Shift+F12 Executes the 'View Form' Dialog
Shift+Alt+Arw Highlights a column of text.

Components in Design Time

Shift+DownArrow Increases the Components Height property.
Shift+UpArrow Decreases the Components Height property.
Shift+RightArrow Increases the Components Width property.
Shift+LeftArrow Decreases the Components Width property.
Ctrl+DownArrow Increases the Components Top property.
Ctrl+UpArrow Decreases the Components Top property.
Ctrl+RightArrow Increases the Components Left property.
Ctrl+LeftArrow Decreases the Components Left property.
Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow Increases the Components Top property by a grid snap space.
Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow Decreases the Components Top property by a grid snap space.
Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow Increases the Components Left property by a grid snap space.
Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow Decreases the Components Left property by a grid snap space.
Highlighting a column of text Hold down Alt+LeftMouseButton. Drag around mouse…