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How to scroll through the calendar using keystrokes?

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Viewing one month in ligthning´s calendar I would like to scroll to the previous or following week or month without using the mouse. None of the usual keys (up, down, pageup, pagedown) works.

Viewing one month in ligthning´s calendar I would like to scroll to the previous or following week or month without using the mouse. None of the usual keys (up, down, pageup, pagedown) works.

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Change calendar view with the following.. alt+1 alt+2 alt+3 alt+4

Go to today with alt+end

Change months with the [ and the ]

Here is a list of Thunderbird shortcuts. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts#w_lightning-calendar-add-on

Funny that it does not include changing months with the square bracket keys. [ and ]


Edit: I just noticed that depending on the calendar view you are in the square brackets might change the date, week or month. I never use anything beside the Month view so I never noticed that. I guess it pays to look around once in a while.

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Chosen Solution

Change calendar view with the following.. alt+1 alt+2 alt+3 alt+4

Go to today with alt+end

Change months with the [ and the ]

Here is a list of Thunderbird shortcuts. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts#w_lightning-calendar-add-on

Funny that it does not include changing months with the square bracket keys. [ and ]


Edit: I just noticed that depending on the calendar view you are in the square brackets might change the date, week or month. I never use anything beside the Month view so I never noticed that. I guess it pays to look around once in a while.

Modified by user01229325

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Thank you for your immediate answer. I had looked at the online help support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lightning-user-interface . It would be nice to have the list of shortcuts there.

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