Mathcad Keyboard Shortcuts

Keystroke Commands
Action
Mathcad Help
Context sensitive Help
Calculate worksheet
Calculate region
Redefinition warnings (toggle on and off)
Insert text region
Insert math within text region
Addition with line break operator (within a math region)
Character inside brackets as in chemistry notation
Complex conjugate
Enter special characters into math region
Literal subscript
Namespace operator

Example

...
+ ...
[]
_
x
x1

Calculator Toolbar
Operator
Absolute value
Definition
Evaluate numerically
Division
Multiplication
Inline division
Exponentiation
Imaginary unit
Parentheses
Mixed number
square root
nth root
pi

Example
|x|
x:= 5
x=5
x/y
34

x2
i
(3 + 4)

Boolean Toolbar
Operator
Boolean AND
Boolean NOT
Boolean OR

Example

Boolean XOR
Boolean Equals
Greater than or equal
Less than or equal
Not equal

Calculus Toolbar
Operator
derivative
nth derivative
Indefinite integral
Definite integral
Infinity
Iterated product
Iterated product with range variables
Left-hand limit
Two-sided limit
Right-hand limit
Summation
Summation with range variables
Gradient

Example

Evaluation Toolbar
Operator
Custom infix operator
Custom postfix
Custom prefix
Custom treefix operator

Definition
Evaluation
Global definition
Evaluate symbolically

Example
xfy
xf
fx
f

x y
x := 5
x=5
x5
z5

Greek Toolbar
Enter Roman, then type [Ctrl] G for Greek.
Greek
Alpha
Beta
Chi

UC

Delta
Epsilon
Eta
Gamma
Iota
Kappa
Lambda
Mu
Nu
Omega
Omicron
Phi
Phi(alt.)
Pi
Psi
Rho
Sigma
Tau
Theta
Theta (alt.)
Upsilon
Xi

Matrix Toolbar
Operator
Insert matrix
Column
Determinant
Vectorize
Transpose
Range variable
Cross product
Inner (dot) product
Vector sum
Insert picture

Example
M<1>
|x|

sin(M)
MT
1..10
uxv
uv

Programming Toolbar
Operator
Add line
break
continue
for

Example
break
continue
for i 1..10

Vi i
if
local assignment
on error
otherwise
return
while

on error
return
while

Symbolic Toolbar
Operator
Evaluate symbolically
Symbolic evaluation with keywords

Example

Keystroke
[F1]
[Shift] [F1]
[Ctrl] [F9]
[F9]
[Ctrl] [Shift] R
["]
[Ctrl] [Shift] A
[Ctrl] [Enter]
[Ctrl] [Shift] J
["]
[Ctrl] [Shift] K
[.]
[Ctrl] [Shift] N

Keystroke
[|]
[:]
[=]
[/]
[*]
[Ctrl] [/]
[^]
1i
[']
[Ctrl] [Shift] [=]
[\]
[Ctrl] [\]
[Ctrl] [Shift] P

Keystroke
[Ctrl] [&]
[Ctrl] [!]
[Ctrl] [^]

[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]

[%]
[=]
0
9
3

Keystroke
[?]
[Ctrl] [?]
[Ctrl] I
[&]
[Ctrl] [Shift]
[Ctrl] [#]
[#]
[Ctrl] [Shift]
[Ctrl] L
[Ctrl] [Shift]
[Ctrl] [$]
[$]
[Ctrl] [Shift]

B
A

Keystroke
[Ctrl] [Shift] X

[:]
[=]
[~]
[Ctrl] [.]

LC

Roman
A/a
B/b
C/c

D/d
E/e
H/h
G/g
I/i
K/k
L/l
M/m
N/n
W/w
O/o
F/j
f
P/p
Y/y
R/r
S/s
T/t
Q/q
J
U/u
X/x

Keystroke
[Ctrl] M
[Ctrl] 6
[|]
[Ctrl] [-]
[Ctrl]
[;]
[Ctrl]
[*]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]

1
8
4
T

Keystroke
]
[Ctrl] [{]
[Ctrl] [
[Ctrl] ["]

[}]
[{]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]
[Ctrl]

[']
[}]
[|]
]

Keystroke
[Ctrl] [.]
[Ctrl] [>]