To display the Panel menu items when
the focus currently applied to the Panel menu, press the Spacebar.
Last updated on
19 January 2022
- Adobe Animate User Guide
- Introduction to Animate
- Animation
- Animation basics in Animate
- How to use frames and keyframes in Animate
- Frame-by-frame animation in Animate
- How to work with classic tween animation in Animate
- Brush Tool
- Motion Guide
- Motion tween and ActionScript 3.0
- About Motion Tween Animation
- Motion tween animations
- Creating a Motion tween animation
- Using property keyframes
- Animate position with a tween
- How to edit motion tweens using Motion Editor
- Editing the motion path of a tween animation
- Manipulating motion tweens
- Adding custom eases
- Creating and applying Motion presets
- Setting up animation tween spans
- Working with Motion tweens saved as XML files
- Motion tweens vs Classic tweens
- Shape tweening
- Using Bone tool animation in Animate
- Work with character rigging in Animate
- How to use mask layers in Adobe Animate
- How to work with scenes in Animate
- Interactivity
- How to create buttons with Animate
- Convert Animate projects to other document type formats
- Create and publish HTML5 Canvas documents in Animate
- Add interactivity with code snippets in Animate
- Creating custom HTML5 Components
- Using Components in HTML5 Canvas
- Creating custom Components: Examples
- Code Snippets for custom Components
- Best practices - Advertising with Animate
- Virtual Reality authoring and publishing
- Workspace and workflow
- Creating and managing Paint brushes
- Using Google fonts in HTML5 Canvas documents
- Using Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Animate
- Use the Stage and Tools panel for Animate
- Animate workflow and workspace
- Using web fonts in HTML5 Canvas documents
- Timelines and ActionScript
- Working with multiple timelines
- Set preferences
- Using Animate authoring panels
- Create timeline layers with Animate
- Export animations for mobile apps and game engines
- Moving and copying objects
- Templates
- Find and Replace in Animate
- Undo, redo, and the History panel
- Keyboard shortcuts
- How to use the timeline in Animate
- Creating HTML extensions
- Optimization options for Images and Animated GIFs
- Export settings for Images and GIFs
- Assets Panel in Animate
- Multimedia and Video
- Transforming and combining graphic objects in Animate
- Creating and working with symbol instances in Animate
- Image Trace
- How to use sound in Adobe Animate
- Exporting SVG files
- Create video files for use in Animate
- How to add a video in Animate
- Draw and create objects with Animate
- Reshape lines and shapes
- Strokes, fills, and gradients with Animate CC
- Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Color Panels in Animate CC
- Opening Flash CS6 files with Animate
- Work with classic text in Animate
- Placing artwork into Animate
- Imported bitmaps in Animate
- 3D graphics
- Working with symbols in Animate
- Draw lines & shapes with Adobe Animate
- Work with the libraries in Animate
- Exporting Sounds
- Selecting objects in Animate CC
- Working with Illustrator AI files in Animate
- Applying blend modes
- Arranging objects
- Automating tasks with the Commands menu
- Multilanguage text
- Using camera in Animate
- Graphic filters
- Sound and ActionScript
- Drawing preferences
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Platforms
- Convert Animate projects to other document type formats
- Custom Platform Support
- Create and publish HTML5 Canvas documents in Animate
- Creating and publishing a WebGL document
- How to package applications for AIR for iOS
- Publishing AIR for Android applications
- Publishing for Adobe AIR for desktop
- ActionScript publish settings
- Best practices - Organizing ActionScript in an application
- How to use ActionScript with Animate
- Accessibility in the Animate workspace
- Writing and managing scripts
- Enabling Support for Custom Platforms
- Custom Platform Support Overview
- Working with Custom Platform Support Plug-in
- Debugging ActionScript 3.0
- Enabling Support for Custom Platforms
- Exporting and Publishing
- How to export files from Animate CC
- OAM publishing
- Exporting SVG files
- Export graphics and videos with Animate
- Publishing AS3 documents
- Export animations for mobile apps and game engines
- Exporting Sounds
- Best practices - Tips for creating content for mobile devices
- Best practices - Video conventions
- Best practices - SWF application authoring guidelines
- Best practices - Structuring FLA files
- Best Practices to optimize FLA files for Animate
- ActionScript publish settings
- Specify publish settings for Animate
- Exporting projector files
- Export Images and Animated GIFs
- HTML publishing templates
- Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Quick share and publish your animations
- Troubleshooting
The Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) workspace is keyboard-accessible for users who may have difficulty using a mouse.
Complete, updated Help is on the web. The application did not detect an Internet connection. For a complete version of this topic, click the link below or search complete Animate Help.
The Adobe Animate \workspace is keyboard-accessible for users who may have difficulty using a mouse.
See the discussion of Animate workspace accessibility in Help on the web to learn about navigating the user interface without a mouse.
About accessibility support
Accessibility support in the authoring environment provides keyboard shortcuts for navigating and using interface controls, including panels, the Property inspector, dialog boxes, the Stage, and objects on the Stage, so that you can work with these interface elements without using the mouse.
Certain keyboard controls and authoring environment accessibility features are available only in Windows.
To customize the keyboard shortcuts for accessibility in the authoring environment, use the Workspace Accessibility Commands section of the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
To hide all panels and the Property inspector, press F4. To display all panels and the Property inspector, press F4 again.
Select controls in a panel using keyboard shortcuts
To move the focus through the panel controls when a panel or the Property inspector has the current focus, use the Tab key. To activate a menu that has the current focus, use the Spacebar (that is, pressing Spacebar is equivalent to clicking the menu in the panel). Animate does not support moving from panel to panel with the Tab key.
When you use the keyboard shortcut for panel controls, focus is applied to a control and the control is activated using the following criteria:
To select a control in the panel with the Tab key, the panel with the current focus must be expanded. If the panel is collapsed, pressing Tab has no effect.
To display the Panel menu items when the Panel menu has the focus, press the Space bar.
You can move the focus to a panel control only if the control is active. If a control is dimmed (inactive), you cannot apply focus to the control.
Move the focus through the items in the Panel menu of a panel
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To move through the items in the Panel menu, press Down Arrow.
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To activate the currently selected Panel menu item, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).
Move the focus through the controls in a panel
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Press Tab when the focus is currently applied to the Panel menu. To move the focus through the controls in the panel, press Tab repeatedly.
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To activate the currently selected menu in a panel , press Enter or Return.
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To edit a numerical Hot Text value, type the number and press Enter or Return.
Navigate dialog box controls using keyboard shortcuts
To move through the controls in the dialog box, press Tab.
To move through the controls within one section of a dialog box, press Up Arrow and Down Arrow.
To activate the button (equivalent to clicking the button), when the focus is applied to a dialog box control button, press Enter.
To apply the current settings and close the dialog box (equivalent to clicking OK), when the focus is not applied to any dialog box control button, press Enter.
To close the dialog box without applying the changes (equivalent to clicking Cancel), press Escape.
To view the Help content for the dialog box (equivalent to clicking Help), when the focus is applied to the Help button, press Enter or Spacebar.
Select the Stage or objects on the Stage using keyboard shortcuts
Selecting the Stage with a keyboard shortcut is equivalent to clicking on the Stage.
After the Stage is selected, use the Tab key to navigate through all objects on all layers, one at a time. You can select instances (including graphic symbols, buttons, movie clips, bitmaps, videos, or sounds), groups, or boxes. You cannot select shapes (such as rectangles) unless those shapes are instances of symbols. You cannot select more than one object at a time using keyboard shortcuts.
To select objects on the Stage, use the following techniques:
To select an object on the Stage, with the Stage selected, press Tab.
To select the previous object when an object is currently selected, press Shift+Tab.
To select the first object that was created on the active frame in the active layer, press Tab. When the last object on the top layer is selected, press Tab to move to the next layer beneath it and select the first object there, and so on.
When the last object on the last layer is selected, press Tab to move to the next frame and select the first object on the top layer there.
Objects on layers that are hidden or locked cannot be selected with the Tab key.
If you are currently typing text in a box, you cannot select an object using the keyboard focus. You must first press the Escape key and then select an object.
Navigate tree structures using keyboard shortcuts
To navigate tree structures, the hierarchical displays of file structures in certain Animate panels, use keyboard shortcuts.
To expand a collapsed folder, select the folder and press Right Arrow.
To collapse an expanded folder, select the folder and press Left Arrow.
To move to the parent folder of an expanded folder, press Left Arrow.
To move to the child folder of an expanded folder, press Right Arrow.
Work with library items using keyboard shortcuts
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To copy or paste a selected library item, press Control+X (Windows) or Command+X (Macintosh) to cut the item, or press Control+C (Windows) or Command+C (Macintosh) to copy the item.
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To paste a cut or copied item, click the Stage or in another library to set the insertion point, and press Control+V (Windows) or Command+V (Macintosh) to paste in the center of the Stage; or press Control+Shift+V (Windows) or Command+Shift+V (Macintosh) to paste in place (in the same location as the original).
To cut, copy, and paste items, use the following techniques:
Cut or copy one item or multiple items.
Cut or copy an item from the Library panel and paste it onto the Stage or into another library, or paste a folder into another library.
You cannot paste a shape from the Stage into the library.
You cannot paste a library item into a common library, because common libraries cannot be modified. However, you can create a common library.
When you paste a library item onto the Stage, the item is centered.
If you paste a folder, each item in the folder is included.
To paste a library item into a folder in the destination library, click the folder before pasting.
You can paste a library item into a different location in the same library where it originated.
If you attempt to paste a library item into a location containing another item by the same name, select whether to replace the existing item.