Keyboard shortcuts are a great way for you to speed up your editing and viewing in Confluence.

(info) This page describes the keyboard shortcuts for the English language. The shortcut keys (letters of the alphabet) may be different in other languages.

View keyboard shortcuts in Confluence

To view available keyboard shortcuts in Confluence, do any of the following:

  • Choose the help icon  at top right of the screen, then choose Keyboard Shortcuts.
  • When viewing a page, press Shift+?
  • In the editor, choose the question mark icon on the editor toolbar.

The keyboard shortcuts dialog shows the following information:

  • General – global, page and blog post shortcuts.
  • Editor – text editing and formatting shortcuts.
  • Editor Autoformatting – wiki markup and autoformatting shortcuts.

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Keyboard shortcuts

Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts available in various situations in Confluence.

Note: If you're using Chrome or Firefox on OS X, you can use 'Cmd' or 'Control' for the shortcuts below. Safari users can only use 'Control'.

All screens

Shortcut

Action

/

Enable the quick search

Ctrl+S

  • Submit (where a form is active).
  • Editor -- save the Confluence page.
  • Outside the editor -- save the browser page.

G then D

Go to the dashboard

G then S

Browse the current space

G then GPosition cursor in the search box. See Searching Confluence.

?

Open the Keyboard Shortcut help

[

Toggle the sidebar.

In the editor

Shortcut

Action

Ctr+0

Apply the paragraph style.

Ctr+(1–6)

Apply a heading level (of the number chosen) to the current line.

Ctr+7

Apply the preformatted style.

Ctr+8

Apply the block quote style.

Ctrl+Shift+A

Open the Macro Browser.

Ctrl+B

Make the selected text bold.

Ctrl+Shift+B

Format text as a bulleted list.

Ctrl+Shift+D

Insert wiki markup. (Opens the Wiki Markup dialog.)

Ctrl+Shift+E

Preview the page you are editing.

Ctrl+FOpen the Find and Replace toolbar.

Ctr+I
(letter I, not number 1)

Make the selected text italic.

Ctrl+Shift+J

Insert a JIRA issue. (Opens the Insert JIRA Issue dialog.)

Ctrl+K

Insert a link. (Opens the Insert Link dialog.)

Ctrl+Shift+K

See a list of suggested pages or other locations to link to from your page. More about autocomplete...

Ctrl+M

Insert an image. (Opens the Insert Files and Images dialog.)

Ctrl+Shift+M

See a list of suggested images, documents and other files to embed in your page. More about autocomplete...

Ctrl+Shift+N

Format text as a numbered list.

Ctrl+S

Save the page you are editing.

Ctrl+Shift+S

Format text with a strike through.

Ctrl+U

Make the selected text underlined.

Ctrl+Y

Revert an action that was undone.

Ctrl+Z

Undo the most recent action.

Tab

Indent current line (only in bulleted lists and numbered lists).

Shift+Tab

'Outdent' current line (only in bulleted lists and numbered lists).

Shift+EnterForce a line break without a paragraph break. This is a line break with no extra space.
[ then ]Add a task.

Tables in the editor

Autocomplete in the editor

ShortcutAction
[See a list of suggested pages or other locations to link to from your page.
!See a list of suggested images, multimedia files and documents to embed in your page.
{See a list of suggestions as you begin typing a macro name.
@See a list of suggested users to mention.
//Insert a date using the date picker. The date picker can also be triggered by typing a date in the format dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy.

See Autocomplete for links, files, macros, mentions and emojis for more information.

View screen

Shortcut

Action

B

Create a blog post.

C

Create a child page of your current page.

E

Edit a page or blog post, or return to Edit mode when previewing.

K

Open the Link To dialog.

L

Add or edit labels.

M

Add a comment to a page or blog post.

SShare the current page

T

View attachments.

V

Return to page view (only if you are viewing page attachments).

W

Add or edit watchers.

Workbox

See more about managing notifications.

Disabling and re-enabling keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are enabled by default, but you can disable general keyboard shortcuts for your personal editing sessions if you choose to. This setting won't affect other Confluence users. Editor keyboard shortcuts can't be disabled.

To disable or re-enable general keyboard shortcuts:

  1. Log in to Confluence.
  2. Open the keyboard shortcuts dialog, by doing one of the following:
    • Choose the help icon  at top right of the screen, then choose Keyboard Shortcuts.
    • When viewing a page, press Shift+?
    • In the editor, choose the question mark icon on the editor toolbar.
  3. Choose the General tab.
  4. Select or clear the Enable General Shortcuts check box as required.

Notes