Save the current record
This replicates the action of the 'Save' button on the forms.

Ctrl+S

Find and / or replace
This extends the 'Find' facility on each form.
If can be useful, but introduces a few choices to be made each time it is used.

Ctrl+F

Copy
This works in different ways depending on where your cursor is positioned at the time you use the action and you must have selected something to copy it:

• Field selected - Copies the contents of the field
• Record(s) selected - Copies the record(s)

Ctrl+C

Cut
Copies the selected item and then removes it.
Some items cannot be deleted or changed, and you will be warned in this case.

Ctrl+X

Paste
Enters whatever you have cut or copied in the current record or field depending on what you are trying to paste.

Ctrl+V

Undo
Put things back where they were before you started editing.

Ctrl+Z

Redo
Undo the undo, so to speak.

Ctrl+Y

Select All
Select everything before copying or cutting or deleting it.

This combination is particularly powerful when used with Ctrl+C in certain situations in LodgeDat. For example:

Open the 'Personal Details' form
Place the cursor in the first field
Use Ctrl+A
Use Ctrl+C
Open Excel
In a new worksheet, select cell A1 and then use Ctrl+V
Result - every record from your database will be pasted into the worksheet.
Using the same technique in the Lodge section for the contact gives a different, but just as useful, result.

Ctrl+A

Spell Checker

F7

Open Window for editing large content fields
When entering data into a field that allows you to add lots of text as a memo, you can open a larger Window to make editing easier.

Shift+F2

Insert current date

Ctrl+;

Insert a copy of the data from the previous record
If you are editing lots of new addresses, for instance, and they all have the same Post Town or County, if the previous record has the same data in a particular field, this key combination will enter a copy of the previous record's data in the field selected.

Ctrl+'

Next field
Use Tab (also see the next shortcut) to move to the next field in a record.
Some of this functionality has been deliberately disabled in LodgeDat. You cannot for instance, tab out of an address.

Tab

Previous field

Shift+Tab