Keyboard Hot Keys

Default Hot Keys
Base-n Hot Keys
Financial Hot Keys

You can enter data quickly into DreamCalc Pro by using the keyboard, and most commonly used functions have a keyboard 'hot key'. When you press a button on your keyboard, you will see the corresponding button on the calculator depress, thus helping you to learn key strokes by trial and error.

Note that the 'SHIFT' key on the keyboard maps to [SHIFT] on the calculator keypad, so to enter [sin^-1], you would simply press 'SHIFT', followed by 'S'.

If your keyboard doesn't have a numeric keypad, a laptop for example, alternate arithmetic keys are available in the alpha (main) section of the keyboard, see below.

In addition, commonly used main menu options can be accessed via function key combinations, allowing you to change settings at the touch of a button.

Default Hot Keys

DreamCalc Button	Keyboard Button
Numeric Keys [0] - [9]	Use the Keyboard's numeric keypad or the number keys in alpha section of the keyboard.
[×]	Use '*' on the numeric keypad, or 'U' in the alpha section of the keyboard.
[÷]	Use '/' on the numeric keypad, or 'O' in the alpha section of the keyboard.
[+]	Use '+' on the numeric keypad, or 'G' in the alpha section of the keyboard.
[-]	Use '-' on the numeric keypad, or 'V' in the alpha section of the keyboard.
[AC]	ESCAPE or DELETE
[.]	Use 'DECIMAL' on the numeric keypad or the '.' (period) in the alpha section of the keyboard.
[EXP]	E
[Ans]	W
[=]	RETURN
[SHIFT]	SHIFT
[CONST]	A
[hyp]	H
[ENG]	J
[MODE]	HOME
[COPY]	Use CTRL-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste, as normal.
[1/x]	I
[]	R
[x²]	Q
[log₁₀]	L
[ln]	N
[x^y]	P
[RCL]	X
[sin]	S
[cos]	C
[tan]	T
[+/-]	SPACE
[DEL]	BACK SPACE
[(--]	PAGE UP
[--)]	PAGE DOWN
[Min]	M
[MR]	K
[:]	B
[DATA]	D

Base-n Hot Keys

In base-n mode, keys 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'F' can be used to enter the corresponding hexadecimal value.

Financial Hot Keys

If you use the calculator's financial functions, you can configure it to override certain keys, giving you keyboard access to the TVM functions, below. To do this, check the 'Financial Hot Key Override' option in the Options Window.

DreamCalc Button	Keyboard Button
[n]	N
[i]	I
[PV]	P
[PMT]	T
[FV]	F