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title: "Navigate in Design view shortcut keys for MS Access"  
description: "In this article I am trying to explain shortcut keys for Navigate in Design view in MS Access."  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-04-04  
updated: 2019-07-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1222/navigate-in-design-view-shortcut-keys-for-ms-access  
category: "shortcut keys"  
tags: ["shortcut keys"]  
reading_time: 3 minutes  

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# Navigate in Design view shortcut keys for MS Access

In this article I am trying to explain [shortcut keys](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/477/shortcut-keys-for-formatting-elements-in-pivottable-view-for-ms-access) for Navigate in [Design view](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94814/design-view-is-not-getting-displayed-in-my-android-studio-what-should-i-do) in MS Access.\

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| F2 | To switch between Edit mode (with insertion point displayed) and [Navigation](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/62/different-navigation-in-asp-dot-net) mode |
| F4 | To switch to the property sheet (Design view in forms and reports in [databases](https://www.mindstick.com/startup/34/airbyte-the-open-source-platform-simplifying-data-integration-for-warehouses-lakes-and-databases) and Access projects) |
| F5 | To switch to Form view from form Design view |
| F6 | To switch between the upper and lower portions of a window (Design view of the [Advanced](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87321/the-top-10-advanced-countries-in-space-technology) Filter/Sort window only) |
| F7 | To switch to the Code Builder from form or report Design view (Design view window or property sheet) |
| F8 | Invokes the field list in a form, report , or [data access](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/473/what-are-the-data-access-namespaces-in-dot-net) page. If field list is already open, moves focus to field list |
| SHIFT+F7 | To switch from the Visual Basic Editor to form or report Design view |
| SHIFT+F7 | To switch from a control's property sheet in form or report Design view to the design surface without changing the control focus |
| ALT+ENTER | To display a property sheet in Design view |
| ENTER or ALT+O | To open the selected form in Form view |
| CTRL+ENTER or ALT+D | To open the selected table, query, form, report, data access page, macro, or module in Design view |
| CTRL+TAB | With focus set to a section, will move the focus to a subsection |
| SHIFT+ENTER | To add a control to a section |
| CTRL+C | To copy the selected control to the Clipboard |
| CTRL+X | To cut the selected control and copy it to the Clipboard |
| CTRL+V | To [paste the contents](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95127/how-do-you-copy-and-paste-the-contents-of-a-pdf) of the Clipboard in the upper-left corner of the selected section |
| RIGHT ARROW | To move the selected control to the right by a pixel along the page's grid |
| LEFT ARROW | To move the selected control to the left by a pixel along the page’s grid |
| UP ARROW | To move the selected control up by a pixel along the page’s grid |
| DOWN ARROW | To move the selected control down by a pixel along the page’s grid |
| CTRL+RIGHT ARROW | To move the selected control to the right by a pixel (irrespective of the page’s grid) |
| CTRL+LEFT ARROW | To move the selected control to the left by a pixel (irrespective of the page’s grid) |
| CTRL+UP ARROW | To move the selected control up by a pixel (irrespective of the page’s grid) |
| CTRL+DOWN ARROW | To move the selected control down by a pixel (irrespective of the page’s grid) |
| SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW | To [increase](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81392/why-sudden-increase-in-corona-cases-for-india) the width of the selected control (to the right) by a pixel |
| SHIFT+LEFT ARROW | To decrease the width of the selected control (to the left) by a pixel |
| SHIFT+UP ARROW | To decrease the height of the selected control (from the bottom) by a pixel |
| SHIFT+DOWN ARROW | To increase the height of the selected control (from the bottom) by a pixel |
| SHIFT+TAB | To move the focus from the page design surface to the address/subject [dialog box](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/157/dialog-box-in-dot-net) when sending a page as an e-mail |
| ESC | To move the focus from the Field List or Data Outline back to the data access page design surface |

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