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title:        "Shortcuts in KenticoCMS"
description:  "Hi! I thought it would be nice to cover some shortcuts in KenticoCMS which I have found useful. Please note that most of the shortcuts existed in previously versions of KenticoCMS and are not specific for Version 5.0."
url:          https://www.jeroenfurst.nl/blog/Shortcuts-in-KenticoCMS
date:         2010-01-11
category:     Configuration and editor UI
tags:         [Configuration and editor UI]
reading_time: 1
---

# Shortcuts in KenticoCMS

> Hi! I thought it would be nice to cover some shortcuts in KenticoCMS which I have found useful. Please note that most of the shortcuts existed in previously versions of KenticoCMS and are not specific for Version 5.0.

**1. Edit CSS stylesheet from Site properties**
 
 In KenticoCMS 5.0 it is possible to directly edit a CSS Stylesheet from within the "Site properties". This is really handy in case you have a lot of stylesheets and you need to manually find out which one is being used by the website.
 
 ![shortcut_edit_css.jpg](~/getContentAsset/b84124e7-1ca0-43db-8227-ecd02e84d7c1/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/18727b57_shortcut_edit_css.jpg.jpg)
 
 
 **2. Document Context menu in Content Tree**
 
 You can access the context menu by right clicking on a document in the Content Tree. The context menu offers some basic operations for adding, deleting, copying, moving and sorting documents. You can also quickly jump to a specific part of the documents properties by hovering over the "Properties" property and selecting the desired target.
 
 ![](~/getContentAsset/4ec3528f-6088-45ef-91ac-9e657a2509f9/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/70cbc86d_shortcut_content_tree.jpg.jpg)

**3. Page template properties from within Design modus**

I often switch back and forth between the documents "Design" tab and the documents "Page template properties". Luckily for me there is a very nice shortcut "hidden" in the "Design" tab of the document. Check out the picture below for the location of the shortcut.

![shortcut_edit_template.jpg](~/getContentAsset/5a5f4cb8-d9c0-41a6-bdd9-b6431b14f285/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/8971703b_shortcut_edit_template.jpg.jpg)
 
 
 **4. Shortcut CTRL + S for saving changes**

Although clearly mentioned in the "Editing home page content" tutorial, a lot of users are not aware of this shortcut. In almost every section you can quickly save the changes by pressing CTRL + S.
 
 ![shortcut_save.jpg](~/getContentAsset/3a8cc4b8-6eb2-4913-aece-01ddeebd702a/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/7d83752d_shortcut_save.jpg.jpg)
 
 
 **5. Web part zone properties**

This is not really a shortcut like the above ones but it can be a real time saver, because all the basic properties which web parts share can be globally set via the web parts zone properties.
 
 ![shortcut_web_part_properties-(1).jpg](~/getContentAsset/1c53d05e-8be1-40ba-b0b7-5f527182d9fe/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/262c0ff4_shortcut_web_part_properties-(1).jpg.jpg)
 
 
 That wraps it up for now and yes I have probably forgot to mention some other nice shortcuts but feel free to mention those in the comments of this post.
 
 Regards,

Jeroen