Solar Fire keystroke commands

[Jim Eshelman]

It's come to my attention that many Solar Fire users don't know the keystroke commands - especially involving the Function (F) keys on the top row of their keyboards - that make using Solar Fire much faster and more efficient. Here is a summary of useful commands organized in a way that I hope will make their patterns obvious and make them easier to memorize.

Notice that a few are simply the standard function that all Windows programs have (e.g., F1 for Help, Ctrl+P for Print, Ctrl+S for Save (in this case, saving your current setting). Half of them use the Ctrl key, and a few use the separate keypad (e.g., the enormously useful Ctrl+Ins).

As an example of efficiency, when I work up an event in the Mundane Astrology section I'm mostly moving back and forth across F4, F5, and F6.

F1 - Help (SF User's Guide)
F2 - New chart
F3 - Open chart from file
F4 - Transits, Progressions, Directions
F5 - Returns & Ingresses
F6 - Harmonics & Analogues (leave it set on Z-Analogue Prime Vertical for two-tap mundoscope)
F7 - Combined (Synastry options)
F9 - Rising/Setting etc. times
F11 - Lunar phases
F12 - Save chart
Shift+F12 - Relocation

Ctrl+E - Edit selected chart
Ctrl+Ins - Copy & Edit selected chart
Ctrl+O - Clone selected chart
Ctrl+Z - Toggle selected chart's zodiac
Ctrl+K - Toggle select chart geocentric/heliocentric

Ctrl+C - Open Current (selected) chart
Ctrl+H - Open selected chart + aspectarian
Ctrl+F1 - Side-by-side dual wheels
Ctrl+F2 - Open Biwheel
Ctrl+F3 - Open Triwheel
Ctrl+F4 - Open Quadwheel
Ctrl+F5 - Open synastry grid (comparison aspects)
Ctrl+F6 - Open Page options for selected chart
Ctrl+F7 - Open Planetarium view
Ctrl+F8 - Open astromaps (Solar Maps)

Ctrl+P - Print
Ctrl+S - Save current settings

[SteveS]