Quickly creating new document at one higher outline level

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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So in my binder, I – like just about everyone – often create nested documents:

Persons
–Mary
–Robert
–Peter
–Furniture
Places

Two questions:
-Is there an easy way of unindenting something? For example, how do I take Furniture above and make it at the same level of Persons and Places? The only way I know right now is to drag “Furniture” above “Persons”… then it becomes the same level. But I feel like there has to be an easier way.

-Relatedly, right now if I want to create a document under “Places” called “Paris,” and then I want to create a document called “Animals” which is one level higher – that is, again, at the level of “Persons” and “Places,” I have to create that and drag it. Is there some extremely easy way to simply, with a click of a key, tell Scrivener that I want the next document to be one level higher?

Thanks.

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The “move” icons, which you can add to the toolbar, might help.

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You can also use the shortcut keys cmd-ctl-left arrow / right arrow / up / down to move items in the binder – very useful – NB the focus must be in the Binder for them to do this.

So to take your example: type Animals will do what you want. (You don’t even have to press Enter after you’ve typed Animals.)

If the focus is in the Editor, then the same keys will Indent / Outdent / Move Up / Move Down the current paragraph. Also very useful…

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Perfect – these are just the tips I was looking for. Thanks so much!!