I was recently doing a very repetitive task on a Revit dialog box – it involved changing the order of many View Filters in the View Template dialog box (Filters tab). This list of added filters does not sort alphabetically – the dialog box has no means to do so because the filters are applied in order, which means you don’t want it to sort automatically.
In the process I decided to check if there are any keyboard shortcuts for the ‘Move Up and Down’ commands. Yes, there are indeed some hidden keyboard shortcuts. This can be very useful as you can keep your finger on the key for multiple moves, unlike using the mouse, which requires a click for each move (a sure recipe for RSI):
Here is how it works:
View Filter tab View Template dialog box
- First select the filter in the list
- Then get the focus onto the icons for up/down by pressing the Tab key, or by clicking on one of the icons
Use the following single key shortcuts:
D = Add
R = Remove
U = Up
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