We’ve had a few questions lately about shortcut keys in the new QuickBooks Point of Sale 2013 version.  A lot of folks using version 9.0 and earlier got used to using keystroke commands to quickly navigate through the program.  Starting with QBPOS version 10 a lot of those shortcuts are no longer available.  Here is the list of Keyboard Shortcuts that are in both version 10 and version 2013 programs.

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The keyboard shortcuts shown below are common to all program areas.

 

Common Keyboard Shortcuts:

 

Keystroke

Action

 

Basic Navigation

 

F10

Cycle focus between window and menu

 

Ctrl+Q

Log in/out

 

Alt+O

Open I Want To… menu

 

Alt

Underscores shortcuts for menus

 

Alt+PgUp/PgDn

Cycle through open windows

 

Tab

Accept entry and/or move from one field to the next in a form

 

Shift+Tab

Reverse tab navigation

 

Enter

Accept entry and/or move to next field in a list and on receipt payment window

 

Arrow keys

Navigate in and between fields and columns

 

Esc

Cancels current operation; backs out one screen; exits program from Navigator screen

 

Home

Move cursor to first column in list

 

End

Move cursor to last column in list

 

 

Spacebar

Select/clear a checkbox

Cycle through choices on drop-down lists

 

 

Function Keys

 

F1

Get Help on current task

 

F3

Open the Find window for the active field

 

F4

From lookup fields, access associated list to select

 

F5

On document: Edit selected item.

(Pro) Edit selected style item.

 

F8

Toggle between list view and form view of the selected record

 

F10

Toggle focus between the menu and window

 

F11

Save (without printing transactional documents)

 

F12

1. Save (record, order document) or save & print (transactional document )

2. Go to payment screen (from receipt body)

 

 

Control (Ctrl) Keys

 

Ctrl+F

Open the Find window for the active field

 

Ctrl+Q

Log in/out

 

Ctrl+F4

Go to Item List (from documents)

 

Ctrl+F7

Access Held documents (from history list)

 

Ctrl+F8

Open installed Cash Drawer

 

Ctrl+F10

Print tags (where applicable)

 

Ctrl+n

Switch tabbed pages, n = 1,2,3, etc.

 

Ctrl+Home

Go to first record in list

 

Ctrl+End

Go to the last record in list

 

Ctrl+PageUp

Display previous record or form

 

 

Alternate (Alt) Keys

 

Alt

Access text menus

 

Alt+underlined letter

Access visible options that contain an underlined letter by pressing . For example, to access Copy, use .

 

Alt+Page Up/Page Down

Cycle through open windows

 

Alt+F4

Exit Point of Sale

 

For a list of shortcut keys in versions 9.0 and earlier look in the program help.  You can search using either keyboard or shortcuts an you can get a list of the commands available.  There are way too many in those versions to list here.

 

 

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