Something that might be useful to anyone trying to learn their way
around Oxygen for finding aids, a couple years ago I wrote a set of
instructions for the Minnesota Historical Society staff and they are
listed on the EAD Tools and Helper Files pages as a download of a Word
document (so you can edit it for your own purposes).
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/tools.html . They are meant
for beginners but there some useful tips in there and a lot of screen
shots. The sections covered are :

* Handy keyboard shortcuts
* The absolute necessities
* How to set up Author View
* How to use Compare Files
* How to use a template
* How to set up validation
* How to set up View in Browser
* Using find/replace
* Overview of some of the important side panels

I will cut and paste the keyboard shortcuts I list in that document
below. They are super handy!

Format and indent the document: ctrl shift P (also known as Pretty Print:-)

Toggle line wrap: ctrl shift Y

Increase the font size/decrease the font size: ctrl + / ctrl -

Switch between open tabs (most recent ones to the not recent ones) Ctrl + Tab
Switch between tabs in the reverse order Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Find → Find next F3 (performs another search in forward direction
using the last search configuration.)
Find → Find previous Shift+F3 (performs another search in backward
direction usingthe last search configuration).
Quick find toolbar: ctrl alt F (brings up a constant bar at the bottom
of the screen instead of floating box)

Bookmark your spot: click just to the left of the line number and a
blue box with a number will appear. You can create 10. To go to
bookmark #1 from anywhere in the document press: ctrl 1 (for bookmark
2: ctrl 2 etc). To delete the bookmark: click on the blue box with the
number. To delete all bookmarks at once: ctrl F7.

Configure transformation scenario: ctrl shift C

Apply transformation scenario: ctrl shift T

Delete element tags: ctrl alt X (you must first select text)
	Ex. <p>Highlight this text to delete paragraph tags.</p> press ctrl alt X. →
		 Highlight this text to delete paragraph tags.

Rename element: alt shift R (first click within an element tag)
Ex. <p>Click in my tag to change me to an item</p> press ctrl shift R,
enter new tag in pop-up box → <item>Click in my tag to change me to an
item</item>
		
Split element: ctrl alt D (first click on place to split inside element’s text)
	Ex. <item>Make mextwo items</item> click at yellow, press ctrl alt D →
	<item>Make me</item> <item>two items</item>

Join elements: ctrl alt J (you must first select text)

Go after next tag: ctrl CLOSE_BRACKET

Go after previous tag: ctrl OPEN_BRACKET

Go to matching tag (opening or closing tag of the same element): ctrl shift G

Learn structure: ctrl shift L

Safe structure: ctrl shift S

Open DTD for this document: ctrl shift ENTER

Next error: ctrl PERIOD

Previous error: ctrl COMMA

Go to line: ctrl L (brings up box to type the line number in)

Expand all: ctrl alt P

Toggle comments: ctrl shift COMMA



On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Joyce Chapman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Michele,
>
> Oxygen can do just about anything.
>
> Here's the keyboard shortcut to split the element where your cursor is
> in Oxygen: "ctrl+alt+D" (on mac). If you want to surround highlighted
> text with a tag, it's "ctrl+E", if you want to join two elements, it's
> "ctrl+alt+J".
>
> In Oxygen, you simply triple click somewhere in the tag name to
> highlight the opening and closing tag as well as all the contents. If
> you just want the contents within the tag, double click anywhere in
> the text within the tags. If you want to delete the tags around a
> block of text, it's "ctrl+alt+X".
>
> You might check out refactoring in the Oxygen menus. Go to
> Document-->XML Refactoring menu. And that should tell you what the
> shortcuts are if they are different in Windows, sorry I only know the
> mac ones.
>
> Joyce
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> OK, this is a stupid question I'm sure, but I can't seem to figure it out.
>>
>> In XMetaL, when I'm in the "Tags On" view, if I hit the "Enter" key the current element splits right where my cursor is.  This is handy when you're entering several paragraphs, or when you want a new <subject> element, etc.  Also in this view, if I click on the opening tag, it automatically selects the entire element and all its contents.  There are a few other things that are pretty easy to do in this view, in which the elements are treated as indivisible units.
>>
>> Is there an analogous view in oxygen?  So far as I can discover, Oxygen appears to always treat all the tags as just text strings -- it allows me to add a return in the middle of an element name, for example, and selecting an entire element requires a right-click > menu choice rather than a single click on the opening tag.  (Basically it's analogous to XMetaL's "Plain Text" view.)
>>
>> Of course Oxygen is $70 and XMetaL is something like $600, so maybe that's my answer...
>>
>> Thanks --
>>
>> Michele
>>
>> (be green - don't print this email!)
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>> Michele Combs
>> Manuscripts Librarian
>> Special Collections Research Center
>> Syracuse University Libraries
>> 222 Waverly Ave.
>> Syracuse, NY  13244
>> 315-443-2081
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>
>
>
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> Joyce Chapman
> NCSU Libraries
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