The Menu on the Main Screen provides access to all the available functions and actions that Solar Fire can perform. Some menu items can be activated by shortcuts – either particular key combinations, or via Toolbar buttons, or the "Current Settings" panel.
One form of shortcut are "shortcut keys", which are usually the function keys on the keyboard (e.g. F2, F3 ... etc) or a combination of keys held down together (e.g. the "Ctrl" key (Windows) or the "Command" key (Mac) and the "P" key, or the "Shift" key and the function key ("F1", etc). You press and hold down the first key, and while continuing to hold it down you then press the second key in the pair, then release both keys.
•Function keys on a Mac: On the Mac, you may have to change the settings to use the F1 key and other function keys in this way. Choose Apple 
menu > System Settings then click Keyboard in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Open Keyboard settings. Click Keyboard Shortcuts, then click Function Keys in the sidebar. Turn on “Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.”
When you click on a menu (e.g. the Chart menu at the top left of the Main Screen) you can see all the shortcut keys - for the menu items that have shortcut keys - to the right of the menu item. When the shortcut key is actually a two key combination it is written in this format: key1 + key2 e.g. Ctrl+F2 (Windows) or Command+F2 (Mac). Mostly the descriptions of the keys match the actual text on the keyboard keys themselves, but not always. For instance, on the Chart menu the "Delete..." menu item has a shortcut key of "Del". On some keyboards the actual delete key may have "Delete" written on it, although often it will just have "Del" written on it.
See Shortcut Keys for a full listing.
