Keyboard shortcuts

Open help, search everywhere, drive the projection: the keys that save time, and the ones that never fire by accident.

2026-09-23
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Sanctumel works entirely with the mouse. Shortcuts replace nothing: they shorten the gestures you repeat most. None needs to be memorised to use the product.

Note: no key fires while you are typing. Type "Chairs purchase" in a field and nothing happens: single-letter shortcuts are ignored as soon as the cursor is in an input.

Everywhere in the Suite

KeyWhat it does
A, H, ? or F1Opens help for the screen you are on
Ctrl + K (⌘ K on Mac)Global search and command palette
EscCloses the open window or menu

Why four keys for help. ? is the convention of professional tools, but it needs a combination on every keyboard: Shift+, on AZERTY, Shift+/ on QWERTY. A and H need nothing, and are mnemonic in all five product languages: Aide, Ayuda, Ajuda start with A; Help and Hulp with H. F1 exists for anyone who cannot make a combination at all.

Tip: help opens in a floating window. The screen behind stays usable: you read a step, you apply it, you read the next one - without losing what you were typing. Move it by its title, resize it by its corner: it remembers its place.

The help window

KeyWhat it does
A, H, ? or F1Closes the window if it is already open
EscCloses the window

It opens straight onto the articles for the screen you are on. A search covers the whole documentation, and a selector lets you read an article in a language other than your interface.

During a live service: projection and preaching mode

These screens have their own keys. A and H open help there as everywhere else, except in full screen: you do not pop up a documentation window during a service on a stray key. ? and F1 always work.

KeyWhat it does
FFullscreen
BBlack screen (projection)
RBack to the summary (projection)
Ctrl + BOpens the Bible (projection)
→ ↓ SpaceNext slide (projection)
← ↑Previous slide (projection)
EnterSend the preview to live (projection)
1 to 9Inside a song: go to that verse
0Inside a song: go to the next chorus
? or F1Still opens help: these keys are never pressed by accident

The full detail of the projection keys, and why "0" goes to the next chorus rather than the first, is in Keyboard shortcuts for projection.

What is not a shortcut

Your browser and system combinations stay intact: Ctrl + A still selects all, Ctrl + C copies, Ctrl + F searches the page. Sanctumel never listens to a letter while a command key is held - a shortcut that broke "select all" would be the most hated in the product.

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