Keyboard Shortcuts in Wise Owl Legal

To facilitate the fastest data entry, a variety of keyboard shortcuts are provided throughout Wise Owl Legal.

As much as possible, we try not to interfere with your default web browser's keyboard shortcuts.

A printable reference card is also available. TODO: make the reference card and list below - NCT. in progress NCT

Guide to Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts come in two forms: key combinations and key sequences.

Some examples of combinations:

Ctrl + S - Control and 's' together
Alt + Shift + R - Alt, Shift and 'r' all together

Some examples of key sequences:

a,b = 'a' then 'b'
Ctrl + K, t = Control and 'k' together, then 't'

On Macintosh computers, the Ctrl key is the same as the Command key.

If you are using a tablet device such as an iPad, the keyboard shortcuts work as normal, but you will require a Bluetooth keyboard for them to be practical. (TODO: confirm this actually works KMc)

Mac OS Specific

On Mac OS, to tab through Checkbox and Radio Button fields, you must change your system settings, or use the Mac shortcut CMD + F7. When this is disabled, your web browser will skip past checkboxes and radio buttons.

Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Full Keyboard Access

When trying to select checkboxes, you can press the space bar to select ('tick') a checkbox. Or use the arrow keys to tab through the checkboxes

Global

These shortcuts are available on almost every page in Wise Owl Legal.

TODO: include relevant browser shortcuts too for reference

Shortcut	Action	Context
Ctrl + S	Save Form	Pages with a single form
Ctrl + T	Open a new browser Tab	Any page. This is a standard browser shortcut.
F5	Refresh the page	Any page. This is a standard browser shortcut.
Ctrl + Tab	Jump to next tab	Any page. This is a standard browser shortcut.
Ctrl + W / Ctrl + F4	Close current tab	Any page. This is a standard browser shortcut.
Ctrl + Shift + T	Reopen a tab just closed	Any page. This is a standard browser shorcut.
Ctrl + F	Find	Any page. This is a standard browser shortcut.
	Jumps to the global search	Any page.
	Opens the New Contact page	Any page.
	Opens the New Matter page	Any page.

To choose through checkboxes (radio buttons)
Chrome - You need to use arrows to move through the options
Firefox - You can use the Tab button to move through the options
Mac (Safari or Chrome) - Need to use arrows to move through the options

Note to Karen: I'd suggest we use sequences as much as possible rather than taking over web browser's shortcuts too much. Perhaps something like Ctrl + O, S for search (the O being 'Owl'), Ctrl+J, A to jump to contacts Additional Data tab (the J being 'Jump'). We can't use Ctrl + W because it closes the current browser window, and if it gets pressed accidently all hell will break loose! Ctrl+L (for Legal) jumps to the navigation bar in browsers, so we can probably take that over as well.

Field Specific

Certain shortcuts are only relevant and active on particular field types.

Tabs

You can jump to any tab on a page via double underlined shortcuts.

Shortcut	Action
`Alt+J, key`	Jump to tab labelled with key.

Date Fields

Shortcut	Action
T	Insert today's date
C	Show the calendar
+	Changes the date to the next day
-	Changes the date to the previous day

Lists of Items

These shortcuts apply when maintaining lists of items (e.g. clients or contacts listed against a matter).

TODO: Karen: we need shortcuts here.

Action

Shortcut	Action
	Add new item to bottom of list.
	Create a new item (launches the appropriate New or Create page in another browser tab).
	Delete the current item.
	Move the current item up one in the list.
	Move the current item down one in the list.

Page Specific

(should probably be on each page's help page)