Confluence provides a number of keyboard shortcuts that you can use to speed up your editing and viewing. This page describes the keyboard shortcuts for the English language. The shortcut keys (letters of the alphabet) may be different in other languages.

Quick guide to keyboard shortcuts

  • Press the key combination Shift+? to see all the keyboard shortcuts available in Confluence.

On this page:

Keyboard Shortcuts

The first section below describes the keyboard shortcuts that are available on all Confluence screens. Subsequent sections describe the shortcuts specific to each type of screen.

All Screens

Windows

Action

Mac OS X

/

Enable the quick search

/

Ctrl+S

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

Cmd+S

G then D

Go to the dashboard

G then D

G then S

Browse the current space

G then S

?

Open the Keyboard Shortcut help

?

S

Open the status dialog for a status update

S

Rich Text Editor Screen

Windows

Action

Mac OS X

Ctr+Alt+(1-6)

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

Cmd+Alt+(1-6)

Ctrl+Shift+A

Open the macro browser.

Cmd+Shift+A

Ctrl+B

Make the selected text bold.

Cmd+B

Ctrl+Shift+B

Format text as a bulleted list.

Cmd+Shift+B

Ctrl+Shift+F

Toggle full screen mode.

Cmd+Shift+F

Ctr+I

Make the selected text italic.

Cmd+I

Ctrl+K

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

Cmd+K

Ctrl+Shift+K

Autocomplete for links. Calls up a list of suggested pages or other locations to link to from your page. More...

Cmd+Shift+K

Ctrl+M

Insert an image. (Opens the insert image dialog.)

Cmd+M

Ctrl+Shift+M

Autocomplete for embedding images and files. Calls up a list of suggested images, documents and other files to embed in your page. More...

Cmd+Shift+M

Ctrl+Shift+N

Format text as a numbered list.

Cmd+Shift+N

Ctrl+S

Save the page you are editing.

Cmd+S

Ctrl+Shift+S

Format text with a strike through.

Cmd+Shift+S

Ctrl+Alt+Q

Apply the quote style to the current line.

Cmd+Alt+Q

Ctrl+U

Make the selected text underlined.

Cmd+U

Ctrl+Y

Revert an action that was undone.

Cmd+Y

Ctrl+Z

Undo the most recent action.

Cmd+Z

Ctrl+Alt+7

Apply the default paragraph style to the current line.

Cmd+7

Tab

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

Tab

Shift+Tab

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

Shift+Tab

Tables in the Rich Text Editor

Windows

Action

Mac OS X

Ctrl+Shift+C

Copy a table row.

Cmd+Shift+C

Ctrl+Shift+I

Insert a table.

Cmd+Shift+I

Ctrl+Shift+V

Paste a table row.

Cmd+Shift+V

Ctrl+Shift+X

Cut a table row.

Cmd+Shift+X

View Screen

Windows

Action

Mac OS X

B

Create a blog post.

B

C

Create a child page of your current page.

C

E

Edit a page or blog post.

E

K

Open 'Link To' dialog.

K

L

Add or edit labels.

L

M

Add a comment to a page or blog post.

M

T

View attachments.

T

V

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

V

W

Add or edit watchers.

W

Modifier Keys

A 'modifier key' is a special key on the computer keyboard that changes the normal action of another key when you press the two keys in combination.

As shown in the sections above, some of the Confluence keyboard shortcuts include a modifier key. The modifier key varies, depending on your operating system and browser. The following table shows the modifier keys for the various combinations:

Browser

Mac OS X

Windows

UNIX/Linux

Internet Explorer

Ctrl

Alt

n/a

Mozilla Firefox 3

Ctrl

Alt+Shift

Alt+Shift

Safari

Ctrl+Opt

Alt

Ctrl+Alt

Viewing a List of Available Keyboard Shortcuts

The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box displays a list of available keyboard shortcuts. Confluence provides keyboard shortcuts for general actions such as searching and creating a page or blog post. Confluence also provides keyboard shortcuts in the editor for formatting page content.

To access the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box,

  1. Open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Keyboard Shortcuts' (or press the key combination Shift+?).
  2. The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog appears. You can:
    • Select the 'General' tab to view global, page and blog post shortcuts.
    • Select the 'Editor' tab to view the keyboard shortcuts for text editing and formatting.

Screenshot: General keyboard shortcuts

Screenshot: Editor keyboard shortcuts

Disabling and Re-Enabling Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are enabled by default. If required, you can disable general keyboard shortcuts. You cannot disable the editor keyboard shortcuts.

To disable or re-enable keyboard shortcuts,

  1. Open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Keyboard Shortcuts' (or press the key combination Shift+?).
  2. The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog appears. Select the 'General' tab.
  3. Select or deselect the 'Enable General Shortcuts' checkbox as required.

Notes

Supported Web Browsers

Please ensure that you are using one of the web browsers supported by Confluence. If you are using an unsupported browser or browser version, some features may not work correctly. You can find the list of supported web browsers and browser versions on this page: Supported Platforms.

RELATED TOPICS

Confluence keyboard shortcuts provide consistency with JIRA keyboard shortcuts. Please see the JIRA documentation: Using Keyboard Shortcuts.

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