Slack keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 63 Slack 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Tab — Move focus to the next element
- Shift+Tab — Move focus to the previous element
- F6 — Move focus to the next section
- Shift+F6 — Move focus to the previous section
- Space — Take action or 'click' on buttons
- Enter — Take action or 'click' on links
- Escape — Close windows, menus, or the message field
- Ctrl+K — Quick Switcher
- Ctrl+Shift+K — Open direct messages menu
- Ctrl+Shift+L — Browse all channels
- Ctrl+Shift+T — Open All Threads view
- Alt+ArrowUp — Previous channel or DM
- Alt+ArrowDown — Next channel or DM
- Shift+Alt+ArrowUp — Previous unread channel or DM
- Shift+Alt+ArrowDown — Next unread channel or DM
- Alt+ArrowLeft — Prevous channel or DM visited
- Alt+ArrowRight — Next channel or DM visited
- Ctrl+Period — Open or close right pane
- Ctrl+Shift+I — Channel info pane
- Ctrl+Shift+M — Activity
- Ctrl+Shift+E — Directory
- Ctrl+Shift+S — Starred Items
- Ctrl+F — Search the current channel or conversation
- Ctrl+G — Open previous search
- Ctrl+Shift+F — Toggle full screen view
- Ctrl+Shift+A — Open All Unreads view
- R — Toggle current channel read or unread
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab — Switch to previous workspace
- Ctrl+Tab — Switch to next workspace
- Escape — Mark all messages in current channel or DM as read
- Shift+Escape — Mark all messages as read
- ArrowUp — Edit your last message
- Shift+ArrowUp — Select text to beginning of current line
- Shift+ArrowDown — Select text to end of current line
- Shift+Enter — Create a new line in your message
- Ctrl+Shift+Backslash — Add emoji reactions to a message
- Ctrl+B — Bold selected text
- Ctrl+I — Italicize selected text
- Ctrl+Shift+X — Strikethrough selected text
- Ctrl+Shift+C — Codeblock selected text
- Ctrl+Shift+7 — Turn selected text into a numbered list
- Ctrl+Shift+8 — Turn selected text into a bulleted list
- Ctrl+Shift+Y — Set or edit your status
- Ctrl+U — Upload a file
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter — Create a new snippet
- M — Toggle mute on and off
- V — Toggle video on and off
- Ctrl+N — Compose a new message
- Ctrl+Comma — Preferences
- ArrowDown — Move to message below
- ArrowRight — Open channels
- ArrowLeft — Collapse channels
- Ctrl+1 — Switch to workspace 1 (see assigned number under the workspace icon in your Slack app)
- E — Edit your message
- T — Open or reply to a thread
- P — Pin or unpin a message
- S — Share a message
- A — Save a message or remove from Saved items
- U — Mark as unread starting from a message
- Delete — Delete your message
- Ctrl+Shift+9 — Quote selected text
- Ctrl+Z — Undo message formatting
- E — View emoji reactions and select first
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