Hotkeys

Keyboard shortcuts for the formatting toolbar, attachments, tables, and prompts. On macOS, use Option for Alt and Command for Ctrl, except where separate shortcuts are listed.

Toolbar

From the editor, press Shift+Tab to focus the formatting toolbar. Once focus is in the toolbar:

Shortcut	Action
Left Arrow / Right Arrow	Move between toolbar controls.
Home / End	Move to the first or last toolbar control.
Enter / Space	Activate a button or open its menu.
Arrow keys, in an open menu	Move between menu items, wrapping at either end.
Escape	Close the open menu.

If you opened the menu from the toolbar with the keyboard, Escape returns focus to its button. Otherwise, it returns focus to the editor.

Formatting and history

These shortcuts work while editing text:

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+B	Toggle bold.
Ctrl+I	Toggle italic.
Ctrl+U	Toggle underline.
Ctrl+K	Open the link dialog.
Ctrl+Z	Undo.
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo. Ctrl+Y also works on Windows and Linux.

Attachments

Select an attachment with the arrow keys or by clicking it, then use these shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
Alt+F10	Focus the attachment toolbar, where you can remove the attachment.
Escape	Return from the attachment toolbar to the selected attachment.
Tab	Edit the caption, if the attachment has an editable caption.
Alt+Shift+Up Arrow	Move the attachment above the previous block.
Alt+Shift+Down Arrow	Move the attachment below the next block.
Alt+Shift+Left Arrow	Move the selected image one position earlier in its gallery.
Alt+Shift+Right Arrow	Move the selected image one position later in its gallery.

Editing captions

While editing a caption, press Escape or Shift+Tab to return to the selected attachment, or Enter to continue after it. Your caption changes are kept when you leave the field, including with Escape.

Arranging galleries

Moving an image up or down toward an adjacent image creates a gallery. Moving it toward an existing gallery adds it to that gallery. Within a gallery, Alt+Shift+Left Arrow and Alt+Shift+Right Arrow change the image order; Alt+Shift+Up Arrow and Alt+Shift+Down Arrow take the selected image out of the gallery and place it above or below the gallery.

Tables

With the cursor inside a table:

Shortcut	Action
Tab / Shift+Tab	Move to the next or previous cell.
Enter	Move to the same column in the next row.
Shift+Enter	Insert a line break within the cell.
Backspace, in an empty cell after the first column	Move to the previous cell.
Backspace, in the first cell of an empty row	Remove the row.
Alt+F10	Focus the table tools for adding or removing rows and columns.

In the last row, Enter adds a row and moves to its first cell. If the last row is empty, Enter removes it and continues below the table. Inside a list or code block, Enter keeps its usual editing behavior.

With focus in the table tools:

Shortcut	Action
Left Arrow / Right Arrow	Move between table controls.
Home / End	Move to the first or last table control.
Enter / Space	Activate a button or open its menu.
Arrow keys, in an open menu	Move between menu items, wrapping at either end.
Escape	Close an open menu, or return from the table tools to the current cell.

Prompts

Type the configured trigger, such as @ for mentions, to open a prompt. Keep typing to filter its suggestions. While the prompt is open:

Shortcut	Action
Up Arrow / Down Arrow	Select the previous or next suggestion.
Enter / Tab	Insert the selected suggestion.
Space	Insert the selected suggestion, unless the prompt allows spaces in searches.
Comma	Insert the selected suggestion followed by a comma.
Escape	Close the prompt without inserting a suggestion.

The supports-space-in-searches option makes Space part of the search term; use Enter or Tab to confirm a suggestion instead.