Accessibility in Sage Partnership Tax

Keyboard

Shortcut keys and tabbed movement

You can navigate through the windows and pages of Partnership Tax by using the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Key Combination	Description
tab	Moves focus to the next item on a window.
shift+tab	Moves focus to the previous item on a window.
escape	Cancels any changes that you make and closes the window. Equivalent to clicking Cancel. When the navigator has focus, it will close the navigator.
F4	Displays the contents of a drop-down list.
Control+n	Create new client.
control+o	Open client.
Control+m	Open main details for current client.
control+s	Save changes.
control+p	Print return.
control+1	Moves to the first item in the Tasks panel.
control+2	Moves to the current page in the forms panel
Control+3	Moves to the first item in the PDF Attachments pane
Control+L	Validate return.
Control+Delete	Delete page.
f5	Refresh view.
Control+T	Open tasks window.
Control+z	Undo.
control+r	Refresh return with information from main details.

 

To move quickly to an item on a window, use its accelerator key. Accelerator keys are key combinations that are formed from pressing the ALT key and another key. This other key is the underlined character in the label for the box or item you want to navigate to.

When there is more than one box on a window with the same underline character, press ALT + (underlined character) repeatedly until the box you want has focus.

Accessibility in Windows

There is lots of help available on accessibility features of Windows. The following website is particularly useful:

Comparison of Accessibility Features in Various Versions of Windows