New Item: Inserts an item at the same indentation level as the current item
New Sibling: Same as New Item, except when the item has more than one parent. New Sibling will have the same parents as the current item
New Sub-item
Current Date
Current Date and Time (using the Windows regional setting)
Long Date Format: Toggles the format of the above 2 commands, between short and long date formats
Insert Tab: Only visible when editing
Move: Moves items up / down and left / right. (Alt + arrow). Up / down does not change the indentation level. To move an item to another parent, either move it left or use drag-drop
Select Item: Split button to select the current item. Sub-commands to:
Unselect all
Invert Selection
Select Sub-Items: Selects the immediate sub-items. Hold Ctrl to keep current selection. On the Surface, Hold shift to also select linked items (i.e. detached items)
Show Main Sub-Items: Sub-Items whose main parent is not this item will not be shown. Useful in multi-parent scenarios. Shortcut: Shift + Click on the expand button (+)
Show All Sub-Items: Filters may filter out some sub-items. This command shows all sub-items (i.e. same list as shown in the Properties pane). Shortcut: Ctrl + Click on the expand button (+)
Show Levels...: Shows a dockable pane to expand / collapse items:
Select Sub-Items
Font: Split button to open the standard Font dialog. Plus the following sub-commands:
Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through: Works when editing and not
Grow Font / Shrink Font: When not editing only
When editing, the font property is embedded HTML tags, shown in all views
When not editing, the font is saved in the Item Font property. Effective in grids only
Text Foreground Color, Background Color:
Dropdown to select from Named colors, Standard colors or the full color palette
When editing, the color is embedded HTML tags, shown in all views
When not editing, the color is saved by default in the ItemForeColor and ItemColor fields. How these are shown depends on the view type and view settings
In Tools > Options > This file, the fields used to store / show colors can be changed. Hence, by changing these, different color sets can be applied (for printing / reporting purposes for example)
Mark as Done (Ctrl + M): Marks selected item(s) as done. If already "done", removes the Done flag. By default, the "done" flag is a date in the Done field. This can be changed in Field Properties > General > Is Done Field
Favorite: Checked if item is a favorite item. See Favorite Items
If only 1 item is selected, the New Event dialog is shown
If more than 1 item is selected, the event created will be current date and time
If in a grid and dates are selected (i.e. not the item column, but any date column), then the actual dates in the grid will be used as event date and event type will be Unscheduled
Hyperlink... (Ctrl + K): Opens the Hyperlink dialog. See Hyperlinks
Remove Hyperlink
Index Linked File: Indexes the text content of compatible file types. Uses the FileRef fields or the URL field.
Currently, the compatible types are PDF, RTF, HTM, plain text and web pages. This means that if you drag/drop a set of files / URL onto a grid, their text content will be searchable within IQ.
Click on a hyperlink (in the Properties pane) to open the file in an appropriate viewer / editor:
Mark Item (Replace) (Shift + Ctrl + M): Split button to set the Marked item list to the currently selected items: Plus the following sub-commands:
Tip: Add marked items as children support multiple items. That is, if you select two or more items, each of these will have the marked items as sub-items
Link Items (Related)
If only one item is selected, opens the Related Items dialog
If two or more items are selected, links the selected items together
