Keyboard shortcuts

Look up editing and navigation keys for your platform.

1. How to read this page

These shortcuts are available in Tabularia, shown with the modifier keys for your platform. On phones and tablets, shortcuts are external-keyboard helpers. You can also use the touch controls.

The tables list Tabularia commands. Notes below each group explain ordinary keyboard actions, such as moving the caret, extending a selection, and inserting tabs.

There is no need to learn the list by heart. Hover over a toolbar or header control that has a shortcut, and its tooltip names the keys for your computer.

2. Focus Mode

Toggle Focus Mode: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle document header: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle canvas toolbar: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle left panel: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle Drafts & Sharing panel: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle bottom drawer: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle minimap: Keyboard shortcut

Focus Mode hides both bars and all four panels, then restores your previous arrangement. The individual shortcuts toggle one surface at a time.

Opening a panel leaves Focus Mode. On touch devices, use the center of the Compass for the same action.

3. Editing

Undo: Keyboard shortcut
Redo: Keyboard shortcut
Select all text in the book section the caret is in: Keyboard shortcut
Copy: Keyboard shortcut
Cut: Keyboard shortcut
Paste: Keyboard shortcut
Delete selection or character: Delete or Backspace
Insert paragraph break: Return
Insert soft line break: Shift + Return
Insert no-break space: Keyboard shortcut
Insert Footnote at the caret: Keyboard shortcut
Open the right-click menu at the caret: Shift + F10 or the Menu key

Arrow keys move the caret; Shift extends selection. Alt + Left or Right moves by word. Command or Control + Up or Down moves to the start or end; Left or Right moves to a line edge. Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down work normally.

Tab at the start of a nonempty body paragraph adds an indent. Backspace removes indentation before joining paragraphs. Elsewhere, Tab inserts a character using half-inch stops. On a title page, Tab or Return moves to the next line, then into the body.

With Find closed, Escape first closes a peeked passage, then clears selection. Otherwise it lets Tab move focus out of the Canvas. Control + Y also redoes.

On Mac, Option combinations type special characters, including dashes and currency signs. These are macOS shortcuts; Windows and Linux Alt combinations are different.

4. Find

Open find: Keyboard shortcut
Next match: Keyboard shortcut
Previous match: Keyboard shortcut
Close find: Escape

5. Merging a draft

Previous change: ← or ↑
Next change: → or ↓
Accept the change on screen: Enter or A
Reject the change on screen: Delete, Backspace, or R
Back to the text: Escape

These keys work while the merge panel or bar has focus. Opening or resuming a merge focuses it unless you are typing. Enter on a focused button presses that button. Bulk decisions have no shortcut and require confirmation; Undo reverses a bulk decision.

6. Text Style

Bold: Keyboard shortcut
Italic: Keyboard shortcut
Underline: Keyboard shortcut
Strikethrough: Keyboard shortcut
Link: Keyboard shortcut
Open text formatting menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open typography menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open highlight menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open highlight color picker: Keyboard shortcut
Apply highlight: Keyboard shortcut
Remove highlight: Keyboard shortcut
Open font family menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open font size menu: Keyboard shortcut

At a caret, Bold, Italic, and Underline apply to subsequent typing until toggled again or the caret moves. With a selection, they format the selected words.

7. Block Style

Open block style menu: Keyboard shortcut
Paragraph: Keyboard shortcut
Heading 1: Keyboard shortcut
Heading 2: Keyboard shortcut
Heading 3: Keyboard shortcut
Heading 4: Keyboard shortcut
Chapter Heading: Keyboard shortcut
Numbered list: Keyboard shortcut
Bullet list: Keyboard shortcut

8. Alignment

Open alignment menu: Keyboard shortcut
Align left: Keyboard shortcut
Align center: Keyboard shortcut
Align right: Keyboard shortcut
Justify: Keyboard shortcut
Refined Left: Keyboard shortcut
Refined Right: Keyboard shortcut
Refined Justify: Keyboard shortcut

9. Anchors

Toggle Anchor Insert Mode: Keyboard shortcut

Anchor Insert Mode is available only with a Custom Timeline open in the Timelines tab. The shortcut has no effect elsewhere.

10. Timeline Drawer

Open the focused item's menu: Shift + F10 or the Menu key
Delete the focused item: Delete or Backspace
Step the drawer back: Command + [ on a Mac, Alt + Left elsewhere
Step the drawer forward: Command + ] on a Mac, Alt + Right elsewhere
Pan the focused overview span: Left or Right
Zoom the focused overview span: Shift + Left or Right

The Back and Forward keys, and a mouse's side buttons, step the drawer only while you are working in it and it has a step to take. In a text field they keep their usual meaning.

A Point or Range Anchor is deleted at once. An Outline item asks first when writing inside it would go too.

11. Images

Select or cycle background images: Keyboard shortcut

12. Document and view

Flush local autosave and sync: Keyboard shortcut
New snapshot: Keyboard shortcut
Zoom in: Keyboard shortcut
Zoom out: Keyboard shortcut
Reset zoom: Keyboard shortcut
Open page presets: Keyboard shortcut
Open document zoom menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open line height menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open paragraph spacing menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open letter spacing menu: Keyboard shortcut
Open document menu: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle spellcheck: Keyboard shortcut
Toggle Show invisibles: Keyboard shortcut
Insert from file…: Keyboard shortcut
Print: Keyboard shortcut

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