Slack keyboard shortcuts
Explore all 63 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for Slack 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.
Top 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
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