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Edit Alt-Keys

Opens the KEYS file — a plain text file in the race folder — in RunScore's built-in text editor. There's no structured dialog; you edit the raw file directly, then save and close it like any other text file.

An Alt-key is a one-keystroke shortcut that fills in a common value while entering data — for example, holding Alt and pressing B in the CITY field could fill in "Birmingham", with the state and ZIP prefix following in the linked fields.

Open it from Tools → Enter/Edit Names → Edit Alt-Keys. To use an Alt-key while entering data, see Participant Data → Alt-Keys.

The KEYS file​

Definitions are stored in a file called KEYS, grouped by field name:

CITY
B: Birmingham       AL 352
A: Allentown        PA 187

TEAM
B: BRCC
D: Demons
note

A blank line between blocks — like the one above, separating CITY and TEAM — is skipped when RunScore reads the file. It doesn't end parsing and doesn't merge the two blocks together.

A block with no field-name header applies to every field — RunScore's own sample race (race-templates/5K/KEYS) uses this form, mapping single letters directly to city names with no header at all.