Adobe InDesign keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 111 Adobe InDesign 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

V — Selection tool
A — Direct Selection tool
Ctrl+Tab — Toggle Selection and Direct Selection
Shift+P — Page tool
U — Gap tool
P — Pen tool
Equal — Add Anchor Point tool
Minus — Delete Anchor Point tool
Shift+C — Convert Direction Point tool
T — Type tool
Shift+T — Type On A Path tool
N — Pencil tool
Backslash — Line tool
F — Rectangle Frame tool
M — Rectangle tool
L — Ellipse tool
R — Rotate tool
S — Scale tool
O — Shear tool
E — Free Transform tool
I — Eyedropper tool
K — Measure tool
G — Gradient tool
C — Scissors tool
H — Hand tool
Z — Zoom tool
X — Toggle Fill and Stroke
Shift+X — Swap Fill and Stroke
J — Toggle Container and Text formatting
Comma — Apply Color
Period — Apply Gradient
Slash — Apply No Color
W — Switch Normal and Preview Mode
Y — Frame Grid tool horizontal
Q — Frame Grid tool vertical
Shift+G — Gradient Feather tool
ArrowLeft — Move selection
ArrowRight — Move selection
ArrowUp — Move selection
ArrowDown — Move selection
F10 — Display Stroke panel
Tab — Move to next cell
Shift+Tab — Move to previous cell
Ctrl+Shift+B — Bold
Ctrl+Shift+I — Italic
Ctrl+Shift+Y — Normal
Ctrl+Shift+U — Underline
Ctrl+Shift+Slash — Strikethrough
Ctrl+Shift+K — All caps on/off
Ctrl+Shift+H — Small caps on/off
Ctrl+Shift+L — Align left
Ctrl+Shift+R — Align right
Ctrl+Shift+C — Align center
Ctrl+Shift+F — Justify all lines
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A — Auto leading
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+G — Align to grid on/off
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+H — Auto-hyphenate on/off
Alt+ArrowRight — Increase kerning/tracking
Alt+ArrowLeft — Decrease kerning/tracking
Shift+Alt+ArrowUp — Increase baseline shift
Shift+Alt+ArrowDown — Decrease baseline shift
Ctrl+F1 — Insert selected text into Find What
Shift+F2 — Find next occurrence
Ctrl+F — Open Find/Change
ArrowRight — Move right one character
ArrowLeft — Move left one character
ArrowUp — Move up one line
ArrowDown — Move down one line
Ctrl+ArrowRight — Move right one word
Ctrl+ArrowLeft — Move left one word
Home — Move to start of line
End — Move to end of line
Ctrl+ArrowUp — Move to previous paragraph
Ctrl+ArrowDown — Move to next paragraph
Ctrl+Home — Move to start of story
Ctrl+End — Move to end of story
Shift+ArrowRight — Select one character right
Shift+ArrowLeft — Select one character left
Shift+ArrowUp — Select one line above
Shift+ArrowDown — Select one line below
Shift+Home — Select to start of line
Shift+End — Select to end of line
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp — Select one paragraph before
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowDown — Select one paragraph after
Ctrl+Shift+Home — Select start of story
Ctrl+Shift+End — Select end of story
Ctrl+A — Select all in story
Ctrl+Backspace — Delete word in front
Space — Temporarily select Hand tool
Ctrl+Space — Temporarily select Zoom In
Ctrl+5 — Zoom to 50%
Ctrl+2 — Zoom to 200%
Ctrl+4 — Zoom to 400%
Shift+F5 — Redraw screen
Ctrl+Alt+N — Open new default document
PageUp — Scroll up one screen
PageDown — Scroll down one screen
Alt+PageUp — Go to previous spread
Alt+PageDown — Go to next spread
Ctrl+Alt+0 — Fit spread in window
Ctrl+J — Activate Go To command
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U — Cycle through measurement units
Tab — Show/Hide all panels
Shift+Tab — Show/Hide except Tools
Ctrl+T — Activate Character panel
Ctrl+Alt+T — Activate Paragraph panel
Shift+F11 — Show Character Styles panel
F11 — Show Paragraph Styles panel
Ctrl+Shift+T — Activate Tabs panel
Ctrl+Shift+P — Add new page after last
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Y — Overprint preview

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Adobe InDesign keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 111 Adobe InDesign 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

V — Selection tool
A — Direct Selection tool
Ctrl+Tab — Toggle Selection and Direct Selection
Shift+P — Page tool
U — Gap tool
P — Pen tool
Equal — Add Anchor Point tool
Minus — Delete Anchor Point tool
Shift+C — Convert Direction Point tool
T — Type tool
Shift+T — Type On A Path tool
N — Pencil tool
Backslash — Line tool
F — Rectangle Frame tool
M — Rectangle tool
L — Ellipse tool
R — Rotate tool
S — Scale tool
O — Shear tool
E — Free Transform tool
I — Eyedropper tool
K — Measure tool
G — Gradient tool
C — Scissors tool
H — Hand tool
Z — Zoom tool
X — Toggle Fill and Stroke
Shift+X — Swap Fill and Stroke
J — Toggle Container and Text formatting
Comma — Apply Color
Period — Apply Gradient
Slash — Apply No Color
W — Switch Normal and Preview Mode
Y — Frame Grid tool horizontal
Q — Frame Grid tool vertical
Shift+G — Gradient Feather tool
ArrowLeft — Move selection
ArrowRight — Move selection
ArrowUp — Move selection
ArrowDown — Move selection
F10 — Display Stroke panel
Tab — Move to next cell
Shift+Tab — Move to previous cell
Ctrl+Shift+B — Bold
Ctrl+Shift+I — Italic
Ctrl+Shift+Y — Normal
Ctrl+Shift+U — Underline
Ctrl+Shift+Slash — Strikethrough
Ctrl+Shift+K — All caps on/off
Ctrl+Shift+H — Small caps on/off
Ctrl+Shift+L — Align left
Ctrl+Shift+R — Align right
Ctrl+Shift+C — Align center
Ctrl+Shift+F — Justify all lines
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A — Auto leading
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+G — Align to grid on/off
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+H — Auto-hyphenate on/off
Alt+ArrowRight — Increase kerning/tracking
Alt+ArrowLeft — Decrease kerning/tracking
Shift+Alt+ArrowUp — Increase baseline shift
Shift+Alt+ArrowDown — Decrease baseline shift
Ctrl+F1 — Insert selected text into Find What
Shift+F2 — Find next occurrence
Ctrl+F — Open Find/Change
ArrowRight — Move right one character
ArrowLeft — Move left one character
ArrowUp — Move up one line
ArrowDown — Move down one line
Ctrl+ArrowRight — Move right one word
Ctrl+ArrowLeft — Move left one word
Home — Move to start of line
End — Move to end of line
Ctrl+ArrowUp — Move to previous paragraph
Ctrl+ArrowDown — Move to next paragraph
Ctrl+Home — Move to start of story
Ctrl+End — Move to end of story
Shift+ArrowRight — Select one character right
Shift+ArrowLeft — Select one character left
Shift+ArrowUp — Select one line above
Shift+ArrowDown — Select one line below
Shift+Home — Select to start of line
Shift+End — Select to end of line
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp — Select one paragraph before
Ctrl+Shift+ArrowDown — Select one paragraph after
Ctrl+Shift+Home — Select start of story
Ctrl+Shift+End — Select end of story
Ctrl+A — Select all in story
Ctrl+Backspace — Delete word in front
Space — Temporarily select Hand tool
Ctrl+Space — Temporarily select Zoom In
Ctrl+5 — Zoom to 50%
Ctrl+2 — Zoom to 200%
Ctrl+4 — Zoom to 400%
Shift+F5 — Redraw screen
Ctrl+Alt+N — Open new default document
PageUp — Scroll up one screen
PageDown — Scroll down one screen
Alt+PageUp — Go to previous spread
Alt+PageDown — Go to next spread
Ctrl+Alt+0 — Fit spread in window
Ctrl+J — Activate Go To command
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U — Cycle through measurement units
Tab — Show/Hide all panels
Shift+Tab — Show/Hide except Tools
Ctrl+T — Activate Character panel
Ctrl+Alt+T — Activate Paragraph panel
Shift+F11 — Show Character Styles panel
F11 — Show Paragraph Styles panel
Ctrl+Shift+T — Activate Tabs panel
Ctrl+Shift+P — Add new page after last
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Y — Overprint preview