Keyboard shortcuts

3 min readUpdated October 28, 2026

On Windows and Linux, press Ctrl where a Mac takes ⌘. The keys in parentheses are the Windows and Linux ones.

Anywhere in a product

Keys	What it does
⌘K (Ctrl+K)	Opens or closes the palette: find an article, go to a page, or ask the chat.
⌘J (Ctrl+J)	Opens or closes the chat. With the pointer over a picture or a row, it adds that thing to the chat.

⌘J does nothing on a chat opened as its own page.

Keys	What it does
↑ ↓	Moves through the results.
Enter	Opens or runs the picked result. On the “Ask the chat” result, it sends your words to the chat.
Esc	Closes the palette.

Keys	What it does
Enter	Sends the message.
Shift+Enter	Starts another line in the message.
@	Names a thing from another page: an article, a screen, a take, or a run. ↑ ↓ moves; Enter or Tab adds it.
Shift+click	With Point on, adds one more thing and keeps pointing.
Esc	Stops Point, or Snip a part of the screen.

Keys	What it does
⌘. (Ctrl+.)	Focus or Leave focus: hides the rail and the article's panels, or shows them again.
/	At the start of an empty line, or after a space, opens the block menu. Type to find a block.
↑ ↓, then Enter or Tab	In the block menu, moves to a block and adds it. Esc closes the menu.
⌘B (Ctrl+B)	Bold.
⌘I (Ctrl+I)	Italic.
Tab, Shift+Tab	In an FAQ, Steps, Tabs, Cards, or Fields block, moves from a title to its text and on to the next item.
Enter	In an FAQ question or an item's title, moves to its text.
Esc	Closes Ask AI on picked words.
⌘S (Ctrl+S)	Does nothing: the article saves as you type.

These keys work in an article with proposed edits, while the cursor is not in the text or a field.

Keys	What it does
J	Goes to the next proposed edit.
K	Goes to the previous proposed edit.
A or Y	Accepts the proposed edit. With none picked, it picks the first one.
R or N	Rejects the proposed edit. With none picked, it picks the first one.
→	Opens the next article in To review, or in the list you opened the article from.
Enter	In Why? after Reject, saves the rule, or rejects with no rule when the box is empty.
Esc	In Why?, rejects with no rule.
Enter, Esc	While you change a proposed edit's words in the text: Enter saves them, Esc cancels.

For the whole review, see Review proposed edits.

These keys work in Edit Screenshot, which Edit on a picture opens, while you are not typing a label.

Keys	What it does
V	Select: move, resize, or remove a mark. The arrow keys nudge it; Shift and an arrow key nudge it further.
C	Crop: how much of the take shows.
B	Box: draws an outline.
F	Focus: dims the rest.
A	Arrow: points from one place to another.
U	Blur: hides names and emails.
S	Step: a numbered circle.
T	Text: a label on the picture.
⌘Z (Ctrl+Z)	Undo.
Delete or Backspace	Removes the picked mark.
Esc	Lets go of the picked mark.

Keys	What it does
⌘Enter (Ctrl+Enter)	Sends a comment on an article or a task. In Describe a change, it selects Find.
@	In a comment, mentions a person on your team. ↑ ↓ moves; Enter or Tab picks; Esc closes the list.

Owners and admins can use these keys, outside a text box.

Keys	What it does
⌘Z (Ctrl+Z)	Undo a change to the look.
⇧⌘Z or ⌘Y (Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y)	Redo.

Keys	What it does
⌘-click (Ctrl-click)	Picks a picture, or lets it go.
Shift-click	Picks every picture from the last one you picked to this one.
Esc	Lets go of every picked picture.