Keyboard Shortcuts

For Windows/Linux:

Working with Document

Open 'File' panel

Alt+F

Open the File panel panel to save, download, print the current document, view its info, create a new document or open an existing one, access the Document Editor Help Center or advanced settings.

Open 'Find and Replace' dialog box

Ctrl+F

Open the Find and Replace dialog box to start searching for a character/word/phrase in the currently edited document.

Open 'Find and Replace' dialog box with replacement field

Ctrl+H

Open the Find and Replace dialog box with the replacement field to replace one or more occurrences of the found characters.

Repeat the last 'Find' action

⇧ Shift+F4

Repeat the previous Find performed before the key combination was pressed.

Open 'Comments' panel

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+H

Open the Comments panel to add your own comment or reply to other users' comments.

Open comment field

Alt+H

Open a data entry field where you can add the text of your comment.

Open 'Chat' panel

Alt+Q

Open the Chat panel and send a message.

Save document

Ctrl+S

Save all the changes to the document currently edited with The Document Editor. The active file will be saved with its current file name, location, and file format.

Print document

Ctrl+P

Print the document with one of the available printers or save it as a file.

Download As...

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+S

Open the Download as... panel to save the currently edited document to the hard disk drive of your computer in one of the supported formats: DOCX, PDF, ODT, TXT, DOTX, PDF/A, OTT, RTF, HTML.

Full screen

F11

Switch to the full screen view to fit the Document Editor into your screen.

Help menu

F1

Open the Document Editor Help menu.

Open existing file (Desktop Editors)

Ctrl+O

On the Open local file tab in the Desktop Editors, opens the standard dialog box that allows to select an existing file.

Close file (Desktop Editors)

Ctrl+W,

Ctrl+F4

Close the current document window in the Desktop Editors.

Element contextual menu

⇧ Shift+F10

Open the selected element contextual menu.

Reset the ‘Zoom’ parameter

Ctrl+0

Reset the ‘Zoom’ parameter of the current document to a default 100%.

Navigation

Jump to the beginning of the line

Home

Put the cursor to the beginning of the currently edited line.

Jump to the beginning of the document

Ctrl+Home

Put the cursor to the very beginning of the currently edited document.

Jump to the end of the line

End

Put the cursor to the end of the currently edited line.

Jump to the end of the document

Ctrl+End

Put the cursor to the very end of the currently edited document.

Jump to the beginning of the previous page

Alt+Ctrl+Page Up

Put the cursor to the very beginning of the page which preceeds the currently edited one.

Jump to the beginning of the next page

Alt+Ctrl+Page Down

Put the cursor to the very beginning of the page which follows the currently edited one.

Scroll down

Page Down

Scroll the document approximately one visible page down.

Scroll up

Page Up

Scroll the document approximately one visible page up.

Next page

Alt+Page Down

Go to the next page in the currently edited document.

Previous page

Alt+Page Up

Go to the previous page in the currently edited document.

Zoom In

Ctrl++

Zoom in the currently edited document.

Zoom Out

Ctrl+-

Zoom out the currently edited document.

Move one character to the left

Move the cursor one character to the left.

Move one character to the right

Move the cursor one character to the right.

Move to the beginning of a word or one word to the left

Ctrl+←

Move the cursor to the beginning of a word or one word to the left.

Move one word to the right

Ctrl+→

Move the cursor one word to the right.

Move one line up

Move the cursor one line up.

Move one line down

Move the cursor one line down.

Navigate between controls in modal dialogues

↹ Tab/⇧ Shift+↹ Tab

Navigate between controls to give focus to the next or previous control in modal dialogues.

Writing

End paragraph

↵ Enter

End the current paragraph and start a new one.

Add line break

⇧ Shift+↵ Enter

Add a line break without starting a new paragraph.

Delete

← Backspace,

Delete

Delete one character to the left (← Backspace) or to the right (Delete) of the cursor.

Delete word to the left of cursor

Ctrl+← Backspace

Delete one word to the left of the cursor.

Delete word to the right of cursor

Ctrl+Delete

Delete one word to the right of the cursor.

Create nonbreaking space

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+␣ Spacebar

Create a space between characters which cannot be used to start a new line.

Create nonbreaking hyphen

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+_

Create a hyphen between characters which cannot be used to start a new line.

Undo and Redo

Undo and Redo

Undo and Redo

Undo

Ctrl+Z

Reverse the latest performed action.

Redo

Ctrl+Y

Repeat the latest undone action.

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Cut

Ctrl+X,

⇧ Shift+Delete

Delete the selected text fragment and send it to the computer clipboard memory. The copied text can be later inserted to another place in the same document, into another document, or into some other program.

Copy

Ctrl+C,

Ctrl+Insert

Send the selected text fragment to the computer clipboard memory. The copied text can be later inserted to another place in the same document, into another document, or into some other program.

Paste

Ctrl+V,

⇧ Shift+Insert

Insert the previously copied text fragment from the computer clipboard memory to the current cursor position. The text can be previously copied from the same document, from another document, or from some other program.

Insert hyperlink

Ctrl+K

Insert a hyperlink which can be used to go to a web address.

Copy style

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C

Copy the formatting from the selected fragment of the currently edited text. The copied formatting can be later applied to another text fragment in the same document.

Apply style

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+V

Apply the previously copied formatting to the text in the currently edited document.

Text Selection

Select all

Ctrl+A

Select all the document text with tables and images.

Select fragment

⇧ Shift+→ ←

Select the text character by character.

Select from cursor to beginning of line

⇧ Shift+Home

Select a text fragment from the cursor to the beginning of the current line.

Select from cursor to end of line

⇧ Shift+End

Select a text fragment from the cursor to the end of the current line.

Select one character to the right

⇧ Shift+→

Select one character to the right of the cursor position.

Select one character to the left

⇧ Shift+←

Select one character to the left of the cursor position.

Select to the end of a word

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+→

Select a text fragment from the cursor to the end of a word.

Select to the beginning of a word

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+←

Select a text fragment from the cursor to the beginning of a word.

Select one line up

⇧ Shift+↑

Select one line up (with the cursor at the beginning of a line).

Select one line down

⇧ Shift+↓

Select one line down (with the cursor at the beginning of a line).

Select the page up

⇧ Shift+Page Up

Select the page part from the cursor position to the upper part of the screen.

Select the page down

⇧ Shift+Page Down

Select the page part from the cursor position to the lower part of the screen.

Text Styling

Bold

Ctrl+B

Make the font of the selected text fragment darker and heavier than normal.

Italic

Ctrl+I

Make the font of the selected text fragment italicized and slightly slanted.

Underline

Ctrl+U

Make the selected text fragment underlined with a line going below the letters.

Strikeout

Ctrl+5

Make the selected text fragment struck out with a line going through the letters.

Subscript

Ctrl+.

Make the selected text fragment smaller and place it to the lower part of the text line, e.g. as in chemical formulas.

Superscript

Ctrl+,

Make the selected text fragment smaller and place it to the upper part of the text line, e.g. as in fractions.

Heading 1 style

Alt+1

Apply the style of the heading 1 to the selected text fragment.

Heading 2 style

Alt+2

Apply the style of the heading 2 to the selected text fragment.

Heading 3 style

Alt+3

Apply the style of the heading 3 to the selected text fragment.

Bulleted list

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+L

Create an unordered bulleted list from the selected text fragment or start a new one.

Remove formatting

Ctrl+␣ Spacebar

Remove formatting from the selected text fragment.

Increase font

Ctrl+]

Increase the size of the font for the selected text fragment 1 point.

Decrease font

Ctrl+[

Decrease the size of the font for the selected text fragment 1 point.

Align center/left

Ctrl+E

Switch a paragraph between centered and left-aligned.

Align justified/left

Ctrl+J,

Ctrl+L

Switch a paragraph between justified and left-aligned.

Align right/left

Ctrl+R

Switch a paragraph between right-aligned and left-aligned.

Apply subscript formatting (automatic spacing)

Ctrl+=

Apply subscript formatting to the selected text fragment.

Apply superscript formatting (automatic spacing)

Ctrl+⇧ Shift++

Apply superscript formatting to the selected text fragment.

Insert page break

Ctrl+↵ Enter

Insert a page break at the current cursor position.

Increase indent

Ctrl+M

Indent a paragraph from the left incrementally.

Decrease indent

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+M

Remove a paragraph indent from the left incrementally.

Add page number

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+P

Add the current page number at the current cursor position.

Nonprinting characters

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Num8

Show or hide the display of nonprinting characters.

Delete one character to the left

← Backspace

Delete one character to the left of the cursor.

Delete one character to the right

Delete

Delete one character to the right of the cursor.

Modifying Objects

Constrain movement

⇧ Shift + drag

Constrain the movement of the selected object horizontally or vertically.

Set 15-degree rotation

⇧ Shift + drag (when rotating)

Constrain the rotation angle to 15-degree increments.

Maintain proportions

⇧ Shift + drag (when resizing)

Maintain the proportions of the selected object when resizing.

Draw straight line or arrow

⇧ Shift + drag (when drawing lines/arrows)

Draw a straight vertical/horizontal/45-degree line or arrow.

Movement by one-pixel increments

Ctrl+← → ↑ ↓

Hold down the Ctrl key and use the keybord arrows to move the selected object by one pixel at a time.

Working with Tables

Move to the next cell in a row

↹ Tab

Go to the next cell in a table row.

Move to the previous cell in a row

⇧ Shift+↹ Tab

Go to the previous cell in a table row.

Move to the next row

Go to the next row in a table.

Move to the previous row

Go to the previous row in a table.

Start new paragraph

↵ Enter

Start a new paragraph within a cell.

Add new row

↹ Tab in the lower right table cell.

Add a new row at the bottom of the table.

Inserting special characters

Insert formula

Alt+=

Insert a formula at the current cursor position.

Insert an em dash

Alt+Ctrl+Num-

Insert an em dash ‘—’ within the current document and to the right of the cursor.

Insert a non-breaking hyphen

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+_

Insert a non-breaking hyphen ‘-’ within the current document and to the right of the cursor.

Insert a no-break space

Ctrl+⇧ Shift+␣ Spacebar

Insert a no-break space ‘o’ within the current document and to the right of the cursor.

For Mac OS:

Working with Document

Open 'File' panel

⌥ Option+F

Open the File panel panel to save, download, print the current document, view its info, create a new document or open an existing one, access the Document Editor Help Center or advanced settings.

Open 'Find and Replace' dialog box

^ Ctrl+F,

⌘ Cmd+F

Open the Find and Replace dialog box to start searching for a character/word/phrase in the currently edited document.

Open 'Find and Replace' dialog box with replacement field

^ Ctrl+H

Open the Find and Replace dialog box with the replacement field to replace one or more occurrences of the found characters.

Repeat the last 'Find' action

⇧ Shift+F4,

⌘ Cmd+G,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+F4

Repeat the previous Find performed before the key combination was pressed.

Open 'Comments' panel

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+H,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+H

Open the Comments panel to add your own comment or reply to other users' comments.

Open comment field

⌥ Option+H

Open a data entry field where you can add the text of your comment.

Open 'Chat' panel

⌥ Option+Q

Open the Chat panel and send a message.

Save document

^ Ctrl+S,

⌘ Cmd+S

Save all the changes to the document currently edited with The Document Editor. The active file will be saved with its current file name, location, and file format.

Print document

^ Ctrl+P,

⌘ Cmd+P

Print the document with one of the available printers or save it as a file.

Download As...

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+S,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+S

Open the Download as... panel to save the currently edited document to the hard disk drive of your computer in one of the supported formats: DOCX, PDF, ODT, TXT, DOTX, PDF/A, OTT, RTF, HTML.

Help menu

F1

Open the Document Editor Help menu.

Close file (Desktop Editors)

^ Ctrl+W,

⌘ Cmd+W

Close the current document window in the Desktop Editors.

Element contextual menu

⇧ Shift+F10

Open the selected element contextual menu.

Reset the ‘Zoom’ parameter

^ Ctrl+0 or ⌘ Cmd+0

Reset the ‘Zoom’ parameter of the current document to a default 100%.

Navigation

Jump to the beginning of the line

Home

Put the cursor to the beginning of the currently edited line.

Jump to the beginning of the document

^ Ctrl+Home

Put the cursor to the very beginning of the currently edited document.

Jump to the end of the line

End

Put the cursor to the end of the currently edited line.

Jump to the end of the document

^ Ctrl+End

Put the cursor to the very end of the currently edited document.

Jump to the beginning of the next page

⌥ Option+⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+Page Down

Put the cursor to the very beginning of the page which follows the currently edited one.

Scroll down

Page Down,

⌥ Option+Fn+↑

Scroll the document approximately one visible page down.

Scroll up

Page Up,

⌥ Option+Fn+↓

Scroll the document approximately one visible page up.

Next page

⌥ Option+Page Down

Go to the next page in the currently edited document.

Previous page

⌥ Option+Page Up

Go to the previous page in the currently edited document.

Zoom In

^ Ctrl+=,

⌘ Cmd+=

Zoom in the currently edited document.

Zoom Out

^ Ctrl+-,

⌘ Cmd+-

Zoom out the currently edited document.

Move one character to the left

Move the cursor one character to the left.

Move one character to the right

Move the cursor one character to the right.

Move to the beginning of a word or one word to the left

^ Ctrl+←,

⌘ Cmd+←

Move the cursor to the beginning of a word or one word to the left.

Move one word to the right

^ Ctrl+→,

⌘ Cmd+→

Move the cursor one word to the right.

Move one line up

Move the cursor one line up.

Move one line down

Move the cursor one line down.

Navigate between controls in modal dialogues

↹ Tab/⇧ Shift+↹ Tab

Navigate between controls to give focus to the next or previous control in modal dialogues.

Writing

End paragraph

↵ Return

End the current paragraph and start a new one.

Add line break

⇧ Shift+↵ Return

Add a line break without starting a new paragraph.

Delete

← Backspace,

Delete

Delete one character to the left (← Backspace) or to the right (Delete) of the cursor.

Delete word to the left of cursor

^ Ctrl+← Backspace,

⌘ Cmd+← Backspace

Delete one word to the left of the cursor.

Delete word to the right of cursor

^ Ctrl+Delete,

⌘ Cmd+Delete

Delete one word to the right of the cursor.

Create nonbreaking space

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+␣ Spacebar

Create a space between characters which cannot be used to start a new line.

Create nonbreaking hyphen

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Hyphen

Create a hyphen between characters which cannot be used to start a new line.

Undo and Redo

Undo

^ Ctrl+Z,

⌘ Cmd+Z

Reverse the latest performed action.

Redo

^ Ctrl+Y,

⌘ Cmd+Y,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+Z

Repeat the latest undone action.

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Cut

⌘ Cmd+X,

⇧ Shift+Delete

Delete the selected text fragment and send it to the computer clipboard memory. The copied text can be later inserted to another place in the same document, into another document, or into some other program.

Copy

⌘ Cmd+C

Send the selected text fragment to the computer clipboard memory. The copied text can be later inserted to another place in the same document, into another document, or into some other program.

Paste

⌘ Cmd+V

Insert the previously copied text fragment from the computer clipboard memory to the current cursor position. The text can be previously copied from the same document, from another document, or from some other program.

Insert hyperlink

Copy style

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+C

Copy the formatting from the selected fragment of the currently edited text. The copied formatting can be later applied to another text fragment in the same document.

Apply style

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+V

Apply the previously copied formatting to the text in the currently edited document.

Text Selection

Select all

⌘ Cmd+A

Select all the document text with tables and images.

Select fragment

⇧ Shift+→ ←

Select the text character by character.

Select from cursor to beginning of line

⇧ Shift+Home

Select a text fragment from the cursor to the beginning of the current line.

Select from cursor to end of line

⇧ Shift+End

Select a text fragment from the cursor to the end of the current line.

Select one character to the right

⇧ Shift+→

Select one character to the right of the cursor position.

Select one character to the left

⇧ Shift+←

Select one character to the left of the cursor position.

Select one line up

⇧ Shift+↑

Select one line up (with the cursor at the beginning of a line).

Select one line down

⇧ Shift+↓

Select one line down (with the cursor at the beginning of a line).

Select the page up

⇧ Shift+Page Up

Select the page part from the cursor position to the upper part of the screen.

Select the page down

⇧ Shift+Page Down

Select the page part from the cursor position to the lower part of the screen.

Text Styling

Bold

^ Ctrl+B,

⌘ Cmd+B

Make the font of the selected text fragment darker and heavier than normal.

Italic

^ Ctrl+I,

⌘ Cmd+I

Make the font of the selected text fragment italicized and slightly slanted.

Underline

^ Ctrl+U,

⌘ Cmd+U

Make the selected text fragment underlined with a line going below the letters.

Strikeout

^ Ctrl+5,

⌘ Cmd+5

Make the selected text fragment struck out with a line going through the letters.

Subscript

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+>,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+>

Make the selected text fragment smaller and place it to the lower part of the text line, e.g. as in chemical formulas.

Superscript

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+<,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+<

Make the selected text fragment smaller and place it to the upper part of the text line, e.g. as in fractions.

Heading 1 style

⌥ Option+^ Ctrl+1

Apply the style of the heading 1 to the selected text fragment.

Heading 2 style

⌥ Option+^ Ctrl+2

Apply the style of the heading 2 to the selected text fragment.

Heading 3 style

⌥ Option+^ Ctrl+3

Apply the style of the heading 3 to the selected text fragment.

Bulleted list

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+L,

⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+L

Create an unordered bulleted list from the selected text fragment or start a new one.

Increase font

⌘ Cmd+]

Increase the size of the font for the selected text fragment 1 point.

Decrease font

⌘ Cmd+[

Decrease the size of the font for the selected text fragment 1 point.

Align center/left

^ Ctrl+E,

⌘ Cmd+E

Switch a paragraph between centered and left-aligned.

Align justified/left

^ Ctrl+J,

⌘ Cmd+J

Switch a paragraph between justified and left-aligned.

Align right/left

^ Ctrl+R

Switch a paragraph between right-aligned and left-aligned.

Insert page break

^ Ctrl+↵ Return

Insert a page break at the current cursor position.

Increase indent

^ Ctrl+M

Indent a paragraph from the left incrementally.

Decrease indent

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+M

Remove a paragraph indent from the left incrementally.

Add page number

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+P

Add the current page number at the current cursor position.

Delete one character to the left

← Backspace

Delete one character to the left of the cursor.

Delete one character to the right

Delete

Delete one character to the right of the cursor.

Modifying Objects

Constrain movement

⇧ Shift + drag

Constrain the movement of the selected object horizontally or vertically.

Set 15-degree rotation

⇧ Shift + drag (when rotating)

Constrain the rotation angle to 15-degree increments.

Maintain proportions

⇧ Shift + drag (when resizing)

Maintain the proportions of the selected object when resizing.

Draw straight line or arrow

⇧ Shift + drag (when drawing lines/arrows)

Draw a straight vertical/horizontal/45-degree line or arrow.

Working with Tables

Move to the next cell in a row

↹ Tab

Go to the next cell in a table row.

Move to the previous cell in a row

⇧ Shift+↹ Tab

Go to the previous cell in a table row.

Move to the next row

Go to the next row in a table.

Move to the previous row

Go to the previous row in a table.

Start new paragraph

↵ Return

Start a new paragraph within a cell.

Add new row

↹ Tab in the lower right table cell.

Add a new row at the bottom of the table.

Inserting special characters

Insert a non-breaking hyphen

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Hyphen

Insert a non-breaking hyphen ‘-’ within the current document and to the right of the cursor.

Insert a no-break space

^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+␣ Spacebar

Insert a no-break space ‘o’ within the current document and to the right of the cursor.