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Keyboard shortcuts for WSS and Sharepoint Portal Server

I went about my way to try and find if there was an easy way to put the “Private Documents” and “Shared Documents” document library view web part on My Site.  I mean, sheesh, I want My Site to be my official home page, and it'd be nice if I could put a view web part there so I could see, say, the last 5 documents added.

Anyway, I searched google and I ended up actually seeing a page for keyboard shortcuts.  I love keyboard shortcuts!  In general, I don't like using the mouse for things that I want to *do* vs draw.  ie, I use vi a gazillion times more than notepad.  In fact, I wish there was a ViM plug-in for IE so I could use it for entering in info in web parts.  It has a steep learning curve for anyone who hasn't used UNIX systems, but it pays off big time with editing code, searching log files, and all sorts of things.  gvim is the GUI-based form for Windows and is quite useful and is a default install on all my windows workstations and servers, as is Cygwin.

The link I found was at Greatwesthealthcare.com, but then I realized the url was very sps-like.  So I just replaced that part with my own sps server and voila, it's a microsoft help file.

So just go to your own server, with this url:

http://portal/_vti_bin/help/1033/sps/html/KeyboardShortcuts.htm

Here are some of them listed out (my faves highlighted):

General Web Part Page shortcuts (press TAB before trying to use)

ALT+S
Move between search elements on the page, in the following order:
  • Advanced Search icon on the search bar
  • Search scope list on the search bar
  • Search box on the search bar
  • Search button (start search)
  • Any other search elements on the page, such as the search box in the Site Directory
ALT+W
Move between Web Parts
ALT+\
Modify My Page or Modify Shared Page in My Site and in certain views of other Web Part Pages
ALT+N
Add new link to the My Links Summary Web Part in My Site

These are good on the Site Settings page:

ALT+U
Manage users
ALT+S
Manage security and additional settings
ALT+B
Manage alerts settings
Manage crawls of Site Directory (press keyboard shortcut twice)
ALT+P
Change portal site properties and SharePoint site creation settings
ALT+M
Manage portal site structure
ALT+G
Manage top-level lists and document libraries
ALT+C
Use Topic Assistant
Enable or disable Topic Assistant (press keyboard shortcut twice)
ALT+I
Manage targeted links on My Site
ALT+J
Import SharePoint Portal Server 2001 data
ALT+W
Change document library settings
ALT+Z
Delete the document library associated with this portal site
ALT+X
Configure search and indexing
ALT+N
Manage search scopes
ALT+A
Use search scope from another portal site
ALT+Q
Manage keywords
ALT+K
Manage profile database
ALT+D
Manage audiences
ALT+R
Go to SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration

And these are in Sharepoint Central Administration

ALT+I
Select some of the server configuration links in the following order:
  • Configure server topology
  • Configure configuration database server
  • Specify component settings database server
  • Specify content database server
  • Configure e-mail server settings
  • Configure HTML viewer (in Component Configuration section)
ALT+N
Create a portal site
ALT+L
List and manage portal sites
ALT+C
Select the following links in the Portal Site and Virtual Server Configuration section:
  • Extend an existing virtual server from the Virtual Server List page
  • Configure virtual server settings from the Virtual Server List page
  • Configure site quotas and locks from the Virtual Server List page
ALT+G
Select the following links, most of which are security configuration links:
  • Configure alternate portal site URLs for intranet, extranet, and custom access (in previous section of page)
  • Set SharePoint administrative group account
  • Manage site collection owners
  • Manage Web site users
  • Manage blocked file types
  • Configure antivirus settings
ALT+S
Select some of the component configuration links in the following order:
  • Manage the Search Service
  • Manage settings for single sign-on
  • Manage shared services for the server farm
  • Configure usage analysis processing
ALT+D
Configure document libraries (Web Storage System-based)
ALT+R
Configure diagnostic settings

Configure Server Topology page tasks

ALT+C
Configuration database server
Change components (press keyboard shortcut twice)
ALT+N
Content database server
ALT+M
Component settings database server
ALT+O
Single sign-on credentials
Global e-mail server (press keyboard shortcut twice)
ALT+R
Remove Server

Manage Web Site Users page tasks

ALT+W
View Users
ALT+U
Update (New User)
ALT+I
View
ALT+P
Update (Enter Site User)

Enjoy!

[now back to finding a way to put eh document library views on MySite....]

 

posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:28 AM

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# re: Keyboard shortcuts for WSS and Sharepoint Portal Server 9/10/2007 4:19 AM jabba

Thx for info on sharepoint. Have you seen keyxl.com? Its an awesome site for keyboard shortcuts. They've got pretty much every program you can think of (also for Mac and Linux, not just windows)

http://www.keyxl.com

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