To move the focus through the panel controls when a panel or the Property inspector has the current focus, use the Tab key. To activate the control that has the current focus, use the Spacebar (that is, pressing Spacebar is equivalent to clicking a control in the panel).

When you use the keyboard shortcut for panel controls, focus is applied to a control and the control is activated using the following criteria:

• To select a control in the panel with the Tab key, the panel with the current focus must be expanded. If the panel is collapsed, pressing Tab has no effect.

• When the panel with the current focus is expanded, pressing Tab the first time moves the focus to the panel’s Panel menu.

• To move the focus between the Panel menu and the panel title bar, use Right Arrow and Left Arrow.

• If the focus is on the Panel menu, press Tab again to move the focus through the other controls in the panel. Pressing Tab again does not return the focus to the Panel menu.

• To display the Panel menu items when the Panel menu has the focus, press Enter (Windows only).

• To move the focus between the Panel menus of the panels in the group in panels that are grouped, use Up Arrow and Down Arrow.

• You can move the focus to a panel control only if the control is active. If a control is dimmed (inactive), you cannot apply focus to the control.