Key	Opens
`Ctrl`+`I`	Create Invoices
`Ctrl`+`W`	Write Cheques: a blank cheque over the Home Page, as Banking ▸ Write Cheques opens it
`Ctrl`+`R`	Use Register
`Ctrl`+`T`	Memorized Transaction List
`Ctrl`+`H`	Transaction History, over the Home Page, as Edit ▸ Transaction History… opens it: type the document number (invoice, bill, cheque…) or a name
`Ctrl`+`Y`	Transaction Journal, over the Home Page, as Edit ▸ Transaction Journal… opens it
`Ctrl`+`1`	Dashboard
`Ctrl`+`2` … `Ctrl`+`9`	The other areas in order (Sales, Purchases, Inventory, Transfers, Payments, Contacts, Reports, Accounting), skipping those your role cannot see. `Ctrl`+`K` shows each one's number.

Key	Look-up
`Ctrl`+`K`	Go To / Look Up: search every look-up and area. See Go To / Look Up.
`Ctrl`+`J`	A customer's ledger and balance
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`J`	A vendor's ledger and balance
`Ctrl`+`B`	Money to collect (customer balances by due date)
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`B`	Bills to pay (vendor bills by due date)
`Ctrl`+`A`	Chart of Accounts (outside a text box; in a text box it selects all)
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`A`	Chart of Accounts, from anywhere
`Ctrl`+`G`	General Ledger
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`G`	Journal
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`T`	Trial Balance
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`E`	Profit & Loss
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`I`	Item lookup (stock, price and history)
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`D`	Today's takings by payment method

Key	Does
`Ctrl`+`N` or `F2`	New: starts a new document of the kind in front. From any sales screen, a new invoice (a new estimate from Estimates, a new sales order from Sales Orders). From Purchase Orders a new purchase order, from Expenses a new expense, from any other purchases screen a new bill. From the Customer Centre, Item List or payments screens it opens that list. If a new form of that kind is already half written, SeroBooks asks before starting again.
`Alt`+`S`, `Alt`+`A` or `Ctrl`+`S`	Save the form in front. On Create Invoices this does what the main button does.
`F9`	On Create Invoices, the main button: record the invoice, or update it when you are editing one; on an estimate or sales order, save it.
`Ctrl`+`P`	Print the document or report in front.
`Ctrl`+`M`	Memorize the saved invoice, estimate, bill or purchase order in front, as its Memorize button does. On a form never saved it asks you to save it first. See Memorized Transactions.
`Tab` / `Shift`+`Tab`	Next / previous field. Tab stays inside the form.
`Enter`	In Write Cheques, Enter Credit Card Charges, Make Deposits and Make General Journal Entries, moves to the next field, as Tab does. In a search box, picks the highlighted entry.
`Esc`	One step back: closes a drop-down list, leaves a filled box, closes a pop-up, then closes the window (asking first if there are unsaved changes). See Escape, Back and closing forms.
`Alt`+`←`	Back out of a page you opened from another (a drill-down).

Key	Does
`Ctrl`+`F` or `F3`	Find in this window. See Find in this window.
`F7`	Open the filters on a report.
`F5`	Refresh the screen in front. On a ledger or report that can fold into one line per month or into group totals, `F5` switches to that summary and back.
`↑` `↓`	Move through the rows.
`Enter`	Open the highlighted row.

Key	Does
`Ctrl`+`Tab`	Next window
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Tab`	Previous window
`Esc`	Close the window in front (one step at a time)
`Ctrl`+`+` / `Ctrl`+`−`	Zoom everything in / out
`Ctrl`+`0`	Back to 100%

Type	Date
`t`	Today
`+` / `-`	One day later / earlier (`++` two days, and so on)
`m` / `h`	First / last day of the month
`y` / `r`	First / last day of the year
`w` / `k`	First / last day of the week (weeks start on Sunday)
`21`	The 21st of the month already shown
`9/21`	21 September of the year already shown
`9/21/26`, `092126`, `2026-09-21`	A whole date

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