Telegram Desktop keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 31 Telegram Desktop 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Ctrl+Tab — Move to the Chat Below
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab — Move to the Chat Above
- Escape — Exit
- Escape — Go Back
- Escape — Cancel Current Action
- Ctrl+O — Send File
- Ctrl+ArrowDown — Cancel Reply
- ArrowUp — Edit Last Message Sent
- Delete — Delete Currently Selected Message
- Ctrl+E — Edit Media
- Ctrl+F — Search Selected Chat
- Escape — Exit Search
- Enter — Select Chat
- Backspace — Remove Chat
- Ctrl+Enter — Send Message
- Alt+Enter — Jump to the bottom of the chat
- Alt+Enter — Scroll the chat list to the top
- Ctrl+0 — Jump to your saved messages
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowDown — Jump to the next folder
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp — Jump to the previous folder
- Ctrl+W — Minimize to System Tray
- Ctrl+Q — Quit Telegram
- Ctrl+L — Lock Telegram
- Ctrl+M — Minimize Telegram
- Ctrl+B — Bold
- Ctrl+I — Italic
- Ctrl+K — Create Link
- Ctrl+U — Underline
- Ctrl+Shift+M — Monospace
- Ctrl+Shift+N — Null / Plain Text
- Ctrl+Shift+X — Strikethrough
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