"selecting the top left viewport, pressing TAB has no effect... pressing A (not shiftA) gives a little box with an incrementing counter. I saw this mentioned in another thread recently - bug?"

Tab is for switching from object mode to edit mode. Make sure that you have a 3D object selected that allows you to do that before you press TAB :D Like for example, I don't think a camera or light has an edit mode :D

I've mucked around with "A", it is for selecting all the 3D objects if none are selected already (pressing it once when an object is selected, deselects it). I'm not sure if there's other uses for these keys (there prob is), have a look at the hotkey database/reference to see if there is, Help --> HotKey and MouseAction Reference

Hope that info helps in any way.

Message edited on: 11/28/2004 03:23

Message edited on: 11/28/2004 03:24