# Handy tips

## Pics

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In the Pic editor, you can change the loop and cel the fake ego by using the arrow keys.

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In the Pic editor, hold SHIFT while drawing a line to snap it to vertical or horizontal.

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In the Pic editor, you can rotate pasted vector commands by dragging the corners of the paste box.

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In the Pic editor, use F2, F3 and F4 to quickly switch between screens.

## Views

Tip

In the View editor, hold SHIFT while drawing shapes to make shape be centered.

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In the View editor, hold SHIFT or CTRL when resizing the view in order to control how existing contents are resized.

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From the View menu, you can export views as animated gifs.

## Views and Pics

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Hold down the CTRL key and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out in the view or pic editors.

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In the View or Pic editor, press CTRL-C to copy the image to the clipboard.

## Scripts

Tip

In the Script editor, the right-click menu offers options to insert classes or methods.

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Open a header file directly from script by right-clicking on its text in the include directive.

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Press CTRL-Q to comment or uncomment a block of code in Sierra Script.

## General

Tip

From the messages menu, you can export a message resource as a text file to edit it in Excel or some other editor, and then re-import it.

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You can quickly open an explorer window to your game’s folder.

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“Find in Files” (CTRL-SHIFT-F) will search message and text resources, not just code.

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The Toolbox pane offers quick links to jump between Message, Script and Pic resources.

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In the Palette editor, instead of left-clicking to select, and then pressing “Edit”, you can just right-click on the color.

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To reset SCICompanion settings to default, hold down SHIFT when starting SCICompanion.