More Overleaf Tips

Here you'll find some shortcuts, tricks, and solutions to common issues that many face.

Main Tips

At the very least, if you're not going to read all of them, read the ones under this header.

A lot of these shortcuts aren't specific to Overleaf and very handy for other programming too.

Keys	Effect
`ctrl` + `s`	Recompiles the project aka you're view of the output file on the right.
`shift` + `tab`	Unindents selected lines (i.e., it's basically a `reverse-tab`)
`alt` + `up arrow` $\uparrow$ `alt` + `down arrow` $\downarrow$	Shifts all selected text up/down a line (exchanges it with the line above/below)
`alt` + drag `left mouse button`	Highlights parts of code according to the box you make instead of by line. This may be very useful if you want to edit multiple spots e.g. on a table.
`ctrl` + `left mouse button`	Allows you to click multiple spots while keeping cursors in them all. This may be useful if you're trying to for instance add a $T$ in multiple spots of a truth table.
`ctrl` + `u`	Turns all selected text to uppercase
`ctrl` + `shift` + `u`	Turns all selected text to lowercase
`ctrl` + `space`	Opens the autocomplete menu

Typically, Overleaf defaults to `fast compile` meaning that when you make edits, it'll often only recompile the parts that you've edited. This has caused some people issues in the past and so I personally like having `normal` turned on since it guarentees that I'll catch propogating errors. Again as well, `ctrl` + `s` tells Overleaf to immediately recomplile again -- based off of this setting.	$alt text$