Appendix A. Keyboard Shortcuts

This section presents a comprehensive list of all the keyboards shortcuts built into Microsoft Access 2010. The list has been excerpted from Access Help and formatted in tables for convenient lookup. Some of these shortcuts might not be available for your edition of Access 2010 or for your keyboard layout.

In the following tables, keys you press at the same time are separated by a plus sign (+), and keys you press sequentially are separated by a comma (,).

General Shortcut Keys

Work with Global Access Keys

Opening Databases

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Open a new database.

Ctrl+N

Open an existing database.

Ctrl+O

Exit Access 2010.

Alt+F4

Printing and Saving

Action

Keyboard shortcut

Print the current or selected object.

Ctrl+P ...

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