From the course: Visio Desktop: Tips and Tricks

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Master Visio keyboard shortcuts

Master Visio keyboard shortcuts

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Master Visio keyboard shortcuts

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- [Narrator] There are lots of Vizio operations that are best done with a mouse. There are times when a keyboard shortcut is much more efficient, and there are still other times when a hybrid shortcut that uses both the keyboard and the mouse is best. In this video, let's focus on some of the keyboard shortcuts for manipulating shapes. Now I'm going to select the upper triangle, use the arrow keys to move it up, down, left, right, however I choose. If you want to move it in small increments, hold down the shift key while you use the arrows, and that nudges the shape one pixel at a time in any direction. To rotate the shape left, hold control and press L for left, to rotate right, control-R. If you want to flip it horizontally, control-H, if you want to flip it vertically, control-J. Notice it's not control-V for vertical, because control-V, as you well know, is a common shortcut for Paste, so control-J. A little further down on the page, we see a set of chevron shapes that are nestled…

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