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Save Time with These Sage 50 Keyboard Shortcuts

Sage 50 accounts software is perfect for small businesses needing a robust accounts solution to handle everyday cashflow transactions, manage invoicing and produce simple reports, whilst helping to manage your finances, customers and business insights in one simple solution – which is why it’s so popular. Now, with these handy Sage 50 keyboard shortcuts, it’s even easier to use and navigate.

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Sage 50 Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL + Letter

    • CTRL+X: Cut

 

    • CTRL+C: Copy

 

    • CTRL+V: Paste

 

    • CTRL+E: Delete Record

 

    • CTRL+F: Find

 

    • CTRL+D: Find Next

 

    • CTRL+N: New Company

 

    • CTRL+O: Open Company

 

    • CTRL+B: Back Up Company

 

    • CTRL+R: Restore Company

 

    • CTRL+P: Print Displayed Report, Invoices, Quotes, Payments, and so on

 

 

Sage 50 Keyboard Shortcuts: Function Keys

    • F1: Displays online Help topic for the current window

 

    • SHIFT+F1: Changes mouse pointer to What’s This Help selector

 

    • F2: Displays the calculator

 

    • F3: When creating invoices, it displays Edit Item window. When creating customer or supplier receipt/payments, it activates pay in full

 

    • F4: Activates ActiveSearch

 

    • CTRL+F4: Closes current document window

 

    • ALT+F4: Closes the application window

 

    • F5: When in a monetary box, it displays the currency calculator. When pressed in a text box, it displays the spell checker

 

    • F6: Duplicate key

 

    • F7: Inserts a blank line/row for data entry

 

    • F8: Deletes whole lines/rows

 

    • F9: Activates Calculate Net Amount

 

    • F10: Toggles between the open window and menu bar

 

    • F11: Opens Windows Control Panel

 

    • F12: Opens Sage Report Designer

 

 

Top Tip

For a graphical view of which keys to use to perform these shortcuts, see the following image:

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