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Gramps 5.1 keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 1/18/2023 on https://defkey.com/gramps-5-1-shortcuts

Gramps is a free software project for researching, organizing and sharing
your family tree. It allows you to record the details of an individual's
life as well as the relationships between various people, places and
events.

Gramps 5.1 has 58 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



General
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Ctrl + O                Manage family trees
Ctrl + I                Import family tree
Ctrl + E                Export family tree
Ctrl + N                Changes to the next Category.
Ctrl + P                Changes to the previous Category.
Ctrl + [1 - 9]          Change Category to Category number 0/1/2/../9
Ctrl + Alt + [1 - 9]    Within the Category changes the view to view mode number 0/1/2/../9
Ctrl + B                Open the Clipboard
Ctrl + D                Add the selected item as a bookmark
Shift + Ctrl + D        Organize the bookmarks
Ctrl + H                Open the Undo History dialog
Ctrl + J                Jump to a Gramps ID
Alt + Left arrow        Move to previous item in history
Alt + Right arrow       Move to next item in history
Alt + Home              Go to the Home Person
Shift + Ctrl + C        Same action as the Configure active view button
Ctrl + M                Toggle the left gramplet sidebar (Navigator panel)
Shift + Ctrl + R        Toggle the right gramplet sidebar (Sidebar)
Shift + Ctrl + B        Toggle the bottom gramplet sidebar (Bottombar)
Ctrl + Z                Undo
Shift + Ctrl + Z        Do again
Ctrl + Q                Quit program

Add/Create a new object (Opens the related Editor):

Shift + Alt + P         Person
Shift + Alt + F         Family
Shift + Alt + E         Event
Shift + Alt + L         Place
Shift + Alt + S         Source
Shift + Alt + C         Citation
Shift + Alt + R         Repository
Shift + Alt + M         Media
Shift + Alt + N         Note


All list views
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The following bindings are available in all list views: People, Families,
Events, Places, Sources, Citations, Repositories, Media and Notes View.

Ctrl + ↵                Enter    Edits the selected list item
Ctrl + Insert           Adds a new item to the database
Ctrl + Del              Deletes the selected list item
Ctrl + F                Activate the Find field
Enter                   Expands and collapses entries of the selected entry in Group mode
Shift + Right arrow     Expands entries of the selected entry in Group mode
Shift + Left arrow      Collapses entries of the selected entry in Group mode
Shift + Up arrow        Expands and contracts selected entry in Group mode
Shift + Down arrow      Expands and contracts selected entry in Group mode


Editors: Editor tab
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These bindings work on the tab pages of the editors (so not on the labels
of the tabs!, press tab on label to move to tabpage content).

Enter                   Same action as the STOCK_EDIT button when that button is present
Insert                  Same action as the STOCK_ADD button when that button is present
Del                     Same action as the STOCK_REMOVE button when that button is present
Ctrl + O                Same action as the Share button when that button is present
Alt + Left arrow        Change tabpage to the tabpage to the left
Alt + Right arrow       Change tabpage to the tabpage to the right


Editors: Editor bindings
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These bindings work on Editors by activating focus or by changing state of
toggle buttons.

Ctrl + P                Change the privacy status
Ctrl + D                Call the Date editor (if present)
Ctrl + A                Activate the STOCK_ADD Add button (if present)
Ctrl + E                Activate the STOCK_EDIT Edit button (if present)
Ctrl + S                Activate the Select button (if present)
Ctrl + F                Activate the Father button (if present)
Ctrl + M                Activate the Mother button (if present)


Misc.
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F11                     Full screen
F1                      Show this user manual
Alt + O                 Select the OK button
Esc                     Dismiss (Select the Cancel button)
Ctrl + L                Toggle Open/Save dialog between breadcrumbs and filepaths

Source: Gramps wiki


Last modified on (UTC): Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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