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Reading Long Tooltips in SAP GUI for Windows

If you are working with a greatly magnified screen, long tooltips (also known as quick infos) can exceed the screen section of the screen magnifier. The text of the tooltip is no longer shown in full. In SAP GUI for Windows, you can use the following procedure to fix tooltips on the program UI. This allows you to read them in full, even when the screen is greatly magnified.

  1. Use the tabulator key on your keyboard (not the mouse pointer) to go to the UI element you want - for instance, a pushbutton.

  2. Choose the key combination Ctrl + q.

  3. The tooltip for this UI element appears, and persists as long as the focus is positioned on this element, or until you choose the key combination Ctrl + q .

  4. While the tooltip is displayed, you can move the mouse pointer along the tooltip to read the full text. Note that the tooltip disappears as soon as you move the mouse pointer or press the tabulator key to focus on a different element.

Setting the Type of Message Notification

If you want to display system messages in a dialog box rather than the status bar, or if you want to switch on the warning beep when messages appear, you can set this in the SAP GUI for Window options dialog. The procedure is described in Setting the Type of Message Notification.

Useful Keyboard Commands in SAP GUI for Windows

The following table contains shortcut keys in SAP GUI for Windows, which are useful for working with screen magnifiers.

Keyboard Commands in SAP GUI for Windows

Action

Keyboard Command

Move focus to command field

(field for entering the transaction code)

Ctrl + /

(German keyboard: Ctrl + Shift + 7)

Move focus to the first field of the application area

Ctrl + i

Move focus to the last element that can be focused

Ctrl + Shift + i

Display and hide a tooltip for a UI element (as described above)

Ctrl + q

Skip forward to related areas (for example, groups, tables, lists)

Ctrl + Tab

Skip backwards to related areas (for example, groups, tables, lists)

Ctrl + Shift + Tab