InDesign In-depth Command List

Alt + Ctrl + O  — Browse in Bridge 

Ctrl + W — Close 

Alt + Ctrl + P — Document Setup 

Ctrl + E — Export 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + I — File Info 

Ctrl + N — New: Document 

Ctrl + O — Open 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + P — Package

Ctrl + D — Place 

Ctrl + P — Print 

Ctrl + S — Save 

Shift + Ctrl + S — Save As 

Alt + Ctrl + S — Save a Copy

Shift + Ctrl + F9 — Check In 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + F9 — Check in All 

Ctrl + F9 — Check Out 

Backspace or Ctrl + Backspace — Clear 

Ctrl + C — Copy 

Ctrl + X — Cut 

Shift + Ctrl + A — Deselect All 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + D — Duplicate 

Ctrl + Y — Edit in Story Editor 

Alt + Ctrl + V — Place Into 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + V — Paste in Place 

Shift + Ctrl + Z — Redo 

Ctrl + A — Select All 

Ctrl + I — Spelling: Check Spelling 

Alt + Ctrl + U — Step and Repeat 

Alt + Ctrl + Enter — Toggle search direction 

Ctrl + Z — Undo 

Ctrl + F5 — Update Content 

Ctrl + K — Preferences: General 

Shift + Ctrl + O — Create Outlines

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + O — Create outlines without deleting text 

Enter — (Text) Insert Break Character: Column Break 

Shift + Enter — (Text) Insert Break Character: Forced Line Break / Frame Break 

Ctrl + Enter — (Text) Insert Break Character: Page Break 

Shift + Ctrl + - — (Text) Insert Special Character: Hyphens and Dashes: Discretionary Hyphen 

Alt + Ctrl + - — (Text) Insert Special Character: Hyphens and Dashes: Nonbreaking Hyphen 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + N — (Text) Insert Special Character: Markers: Current Page 

Ctrl + \ — (Text) Insert Special Character: Other: Indent to Here 

Shift + Tab — (Text) Insert Special Character: Other: Right Indent 

Ctrl + Shift + ‘ — (Text) Insert Special Character: Quotation Marts: Straight Double Quotation Marks 

Ctrl + ‘ — (Text) Insert Special Character: Quotation Marks: Straight Single Quotation Mark (Apostrophe) 

Shift + Ctrl + M — (Text) Insert White Space: Em Space 

Shift + Ctrl + N — (Text) Insert White Space: En Space 

Alt + Ctrl + X — (Text) Insert White Space: Nonbreaking Space 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + M — (Text) Insert White Space: Thin Space 

Ctrl + F8 — (Text) Notes: Notes Mode 

Alt + Ctrl + I — Show Hidden Characters 

Shift + Ctrl + T — Tabs 

Ctrl + Page Down — (Text) Track Changes: Next Change 

Ctrl + Page Up — (Text) Track Changes: Previous Change 

Shift + Ctrl + Page Up — First Page 

Ctrl + Page Up — Go Back 

Ctrl + Page Down — Go Forward 

Ctrl + J — Go to Page

Shift + Ctrl + Page Down — Last Page 

Left Arrow — (Presentation Mode) Left Spread 

Shift + Page Down — Next Page 

Alt + Page Down — Next Spread 

Space or Down or Enter or Page Down — (Presentation Mode) Next Spread

Shift + Ctrl + P — Pages: Add Page 

Shift + Page Up — Previous Page 

Alt + Page Up — Previous Spread 

Shift + Space or Backspace or Up or Page Up — (Presentation Mode) Right Spread 

Ctrl + ] — Arrange: Bring Forward 

Shift + Ctrl + ] — Arrange: Bring to Front 

Ctrl + [ — Arrange: Send Backward 

Shift + Ctrl + [ — Arrange: Send to Back 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K — Clipping Path: Options… 

Alt + Ctrl + M — Effects: Drop Shadow… 

Shift + Ctrl + E — Fitting: Centre Content 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + C — Fitting: Fill Frame Proportionally 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + E — Fitting: Fit Content Proportionally 

Alt + Ctrl + E — Fitting: Fit Content to Frame 

Alt + Ctrl + C — Fitting: Fit Frame to Content 

Ctrl + G — Group 

Ctrl + 3 — Hide 

Ctrl + L — Lock 

Ctrl + 8 — Paths: Make Compound Path 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 8 — Paths: Make Compound Path 

Esc — Select: Container 

Shift + Esc — Select: Content 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + ] — Select: First Object Above

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + [ — Select: Last Object Below 

Alt + Ctrl + ] — Select: Next Object Above 

Alt + Ctrl + [ — Select: Next Object Below 

Alt + Ctrl + 3 — Show All on Spread 

Ctrl + B — Text Frame Options… 

Alt + Ctrl + 4 — Transform Again: Transform Sequence Again 

Shift + Ctrl + M — Transform: Move… 

Shift + Ctrl + G — Ungroup 

Alt + Ctrl + L — Unlock All on Spread 

Alt + Ctrl + B — (Tables) Cell Options: Text…

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + T — Create Table… 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + T — Create Table… 

Shift + Backspace — (Tables) Column 

Ctrl + Backspace — (Tables) Row 

Alt + Ctrl + 9 — (Tables) Insert: Column… 

Ctrl + ( — (Tables_ Insert: Row… 

Ctrl + / — (Tables ) Select: Cell 

Alt + Crl + 3 — (Tables) Select: Column 

Ctrl + 3 — (Tables) Select: Row 

Alt + Ctrl + A — (Tables) Select: Table 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + B — Table Options: Table Setup… 

Ctrl + 1 — Actual Size 

Shift + Ctrl + F2 — Display Performance: Clear Object-Level Display Settings 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Z — Display Performance: Fast Display 

Ctrl + Alt + Ctrl + H — Display Performance: Higher Quality Display 

Alt + Ctrl + Z — Display Performance: Typical Display 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 0 — Entire Pasteboard 

Alt + B — Extras: Hide Conveyor 

Ctrl + Ctrl + H — Extras: Hide Frame Edges 

Alt + Ctrl + Y — Extras: Show Text Threads 

Ctrl + 0 — Fit Page in Window 

Alt + Ctrl + 0 — Fit Spread in Window

Ctrl + ; — Grids & Guides: Hide Guides 

Alt + Ctrl + ; — Grids & Guides: Lock Guides 

Alt + Ctrl + ‘ — Grids & Guides: Show Baseline Gride 

Ctrl + ‘ — Grids & Guides: Show Document Gride 

Ctrl + U — Grids & Guides: Smart Guides 

Shift + Ctrl + ‘ — Grids & Guides: Snap to Guides 

Ctrl + R — Hide Rulers 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Y — Overprint Preview 

Shift + E — Preview on CPU 

Esc or Shift + W — (Presentation Mode) Screen Mode: Presentation 

B — (Presentation Mode) Screen Mode: Set Presentation Background to Black 

G — (Presentation Mode) Screen Mode: Set Presentation Background to Grey 

W — (Presentation Mode) Screen Mode: Set Presentation Background to White 

Alt + Ctrl + 1 — Structure: Show Structure 

Ctrl + = — Zoom in 

Ctrl + - — Zoom Out 

Ctrl + M  — Arrange: Minimize 

F6 — Color: Color 

F5 — Color: Swatches 

Alt + Ctrl + 6 — Control 

Shift + Ctrl + F10 — effects 

F8 — Info 

Alt + Shift + Enter — Interactive: EPUB INteractivity Preview 

Shift + Ctrl + enter — Interactive: SWF Preview 

F7 — Layers 

Shift + Ctrl + F — Output: Preflight 

Shift + F6 — Output: Separations Preview 

Ctrl + F12 or F12 — Pages 

Ctrl + F10 or F10 — Stroke 

Shift + Ctrl + F11 or Shift + F11 — Styles: Object Styles 

Ctrl + F11 or F11 — Styles: Paragraph Styles 

Alt + Ctrl + W — Text Wrap 

Ctrl + T — Type & Tables: Characters 

Alt + Shift + F11 — Types & Tables: Glyphs 

Shift + F8 — Type & Tables: Index 

Alt + Ctrl + T — Type & Tables: Paragraph 

Shift + F9 — Types & Tables: Table 

Alt + Ctrl + F11 — Utilities: Scripts 

Ctrl + ,  — Decrease scale by 1% 

Alt + Ctrl + , — Decrease scale by 5% 

Enter — End Path Drawing 

Ctrl + . — Increase scale by 1% 

Alt + Ctrl + . — Increase scale by 5%

Down Arrow — Nudge down 

Sift + Ctrl + Down Arrow — Nudge Down 1/10 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Down Arrow — Nudge down 1/10 duplicate 

Alt + Down arrow — Nudge down duplicate 

Shift + Down arrow — Nudge down x10 

Alt + Shift + Down arrow — Nudge down x10 duplicate 

Left Arrow — Nudge left 

Sift + Ctrl + Left  Arrow — Nudge left 1/10 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Left  Arrow — Nudge left  1/10 duplicate 

Alt + Left arrow — Nudge left  duplicate 

Shift + Left  arrow — Nudge left  x10 

Alt + Shift + Left  arrow — Nudge left x10 duplicate

Right Arrow — Nudge right  

Sift + Ctrl + Right Arrow — Nudge right  1/10 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Right  Arrow — Nudge right  1/10 duplicate 

Alt + Right arrow — Nudge right  duplicate 

Shift + Right  arrow — Nudge right  x10 

Alt + Shift + Right  arrow — Nudge right x10 duplicate

Up Arrow — Nudge up 

Sift + Ctrl + Up  Arrow — Nudge up  1/10 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Up  Arrow — Nudge up  1/10 duplicate 

Alt + Up  arrow — Nudge up  duplicate 

Shift + Up  arrow — Nudge up  x10 

Alt + Shift + Up  arrow — Nudge up x10 duplicate

Alt + Ctrl + Down arrow — Pin Bottom Edge 

Alt + Ctrl + Left arrow — Pin Left Edge 

Alt + Ctrl + Right arrow — Pin Right Edge 

Alt + Ctrl + Up arrow — Pin Top Edge 

Alt + Shift + H — Resize Horizontally 

Alt + shift + V — Resize Vertically 

Alt + Ctrl + G — Select all Guides 

4 — Toggle Live Edit Mode 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + C  — (Text) Character Styles: Redefine Style 

Shift + Ctrl + K — Character: All Caps 

Shift + Ctrl + H — Character: Small Caps 

Shift + Ctrl + / — Character: Strikethrough 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + = — Character: Subscript 

Shift + Ctrl + = — Character: Superscript 

Shift + Ctrl + U — Character: Underline 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Enter — EPUB Interactivity Preview: Preview Document 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + [ — (Text) Index: Add new index entry 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + ] — (Text) Index: Add new index entry (reversed) 

Ctrl + 7 — Index: New Page Reference 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + L — Pages: Override All Master Page Items 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + R — Paragraph: Drop Caps and Nested Stypes… 

Alt + Ctrl  + R — Paragraph: Drop Caps and Nested Styles 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + J — Paragraph: Justification… 

Alt + Ctrl + K — Paragraph: Keep Options… 

Alt + Ctrl + J — Paragraph: Paragraph Rules… 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + F7 — (Text) Tags: Autotag

=  — Add Anchor Point Tool 

, — Apply Color 

. — Apply Gradient 

/ — Apply None 

D — Apply default fill and stroke colors 

Shift + I — Color Theme Tool 

Shift + C — Convert Direction Point Tool 

A — Direct Selection Tool 

L — Ellipse Tool 

I — Eyedropper Tool 

E — Free Transform Tool 

U — Gap Tool 

Shift + G — Gradient Feather Tool 

G — Gradient Swatch Tool 

H — Hand Tool 

\ — Line Tool 

K — Measure Tool 

Shift +  P — Page Tool 

P — Pen Tool 

N — Pencil Tool 

F — Rectangle Frame Tool 

M — Rectangle Tool 

R — Rotate Tool 

S — Scale Tool 

C — Scissors Tool 

V — Selection Tool 

Esc — (Text) Selection Tool 

O — Shear Tool 

X — Swap fill and stroke activation 

Shift + X — Swap fill and stroke activation 

B — Toggle Content Collector and Content Placer 

J — Toggle Text and Object Control 

W — Toggle view setting between default and preview 

T — Type Tool 

Shift + T — Type on a Path Tool 

Z — Zoom Tool 

Shift + Ctrl + C  — Align centre 

Shift + Ctrl + F — Align force justify 

Shift + Ctrl + J — Align justify 

Shift + Ctrl + L — Align left 

Shift + Ctrl + R — Align right 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + G — Align to baseline grid 

Shift + Ctrl + B — Apply bold 

Shift + Ctrl + I — Apply italic 

Shift + Ctrl + Y — Apply normal 

Alt + Shaft + Ctrl + A — Auto leading 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + H — Auto-hyphenate on/off 

Backspace — (Tables) Clear 

Text: Alt + Shift + Down Arrow — (Text) Decrease baseline 

Text: Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Down Arrow — (Text) Decrease baseline x5 

Text: Alt + Shift + Left Arrow or Alt + Left Arrow — (Text) Decrease kerning/tracking

Text: Alt + Ctrl  + Left Arrow — (Text) Decrease kerning/tracking x5

Text: Alt + Up Arrow — (Text) Decrease leading 

Text: Alt + Ctrl + Up Arrow — (Text) Decrease leading x5 

Shift + Ctrl + , — Decease point size 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + , — Decrease point size x5 

Alt + Ctrl + Backspace — Decrease word space 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Backspace — Decrease word space x5 

Backspace — (Tables) Delete 

Backspace or Shift + Backspace — (Text) Delete one character to the right 

Shift + F2 — (Text) Find Next 

Alt + Shift + Up arrow — (Text) Increase baseline shift 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Up arrow — (Text) Increase baseline shift x5

Alt + Shift + Right arrow or Alt + right arrow — (Text) Increase kerning / tracking 

Alt + Ctrl + Right arrow — (Text) Increase kerning / tracking x5 

Alt + Down arrow — (Text) Increase leading 

Alt + Ctrl + Down arrow — (Text) Increase leading x5 

Shift + Ctrl + . — Increase point size 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + . — Increase point size x5 

Alt + Ctrl + \ — Increase word space 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + \ — Increase word space x5 

Shift + F1 — (Text) Load Find and find next instance

Ctrl + F1 — (Text) Load Find with selected text 

Ctrl + F2 — (Text) Load Replace with selected text 

Down Arrow — (Tables) move down 

Left Arrow — (Tables) Move left

Right Arrow — (Tables) Move right 

Up Arrow — Move Up 

Down Arrow — (Text) Move down one like 

Alt + Page Up — (Tables) Move to first Cell in column 

Alt + Home — (Tables) Move to First Cell in Row 

Page Up — (Tables) Move to First Row in Frame 

Alt + Page Down — (Tables) Move to Last Cell in Column

Alt + End — (Tables) Move to the Last Cell in Row 

Page Down — (Tables) Move to last Row in Frame 

Tab — (Tables) Move to Next Cell 

Shift + Tab — (Tables) Move to Previous Cell 

Ctrl + Home — (Text) Move to beginning of story 

Ctrl + End — (Text) Move to end of story 

End — (Text) Move to the end of the line 

Left Arrow - (Text) Move to the left one character 

Ctrl + Left Arrow — (Text) Move to the left one word 

Ctrl + Down Arrow — (Text) Move to the next paragraph 

Ctrl + Up Arrow — (Text) Move to the previous paragraph 

Right Arrow — (Text) Move to the right one character 

Ctrl + Right Arrow — (Text) Move to the right one word 

Up Arrow — ((Text) Move up one line 

Shift + Ctrl + X — Normal horizontal text scale 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + X — Normal vertical text scale 

Down Arrow — (Table Object Context) Object Down 

Esc — (Tael Object Context) Object Esc 

Left Arrow — (Table Object Context) Object left 

Tab — (Table Object Context) Object Move to Next Cell 

Shift + Tab — (Table Object Context) Object Move to Prev Cell 

Right Arrow — (Table Object Context) Object Right 

Up Arrow — (Table Object Context) Object Up 

Alt + Ctrl + / — Recompose all stories 

Ctrl + F3 — (Text) Replace with Change To text 

Shift + F3 — (Text) Replace with Change to text and Find Next 

Alt + Ctrl + Q — (Text) Reset kerning and tracking 

Shift + Up Arrow — (Tables) Select Cells Above 

Shift + Down Arrow — (Tables) Select Cells below 

Shift + Left Arrow — (Tables) Select Cells to the left 

Shift + Right Arrow — (Tables) Select one character to the right 

Shift + Up Arrow — (Text) Select one line above 

Shift + Down Arrow — (Text) Select one line below 

Shift + Ctrl + Up Arrow — (Text) Select one paragraph before 

Shift + Ctrl + Down Arrow — (Text) Select one paragraph below 

Shift + Ctrl + Left Arrow — (Text) Select one word to the left 

Shift + Ctrl + Right Arrow — (Text) select one word to the right 

Enter — (Tables) Start Row on Next Frame 

Esc — (Tables) Toggle cell / Text Selection 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + ‘ — Toggle Typographer’s Quotes Preference 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + / — Update missing font list 

Ctrl + 2  — 200% size 

Ctrl + 4 — 400% size 

Ctrl + 5 — 50% size 

Alt + Ctrl + 5 — Access zoom percentage 

Alt + Ctrl + ` — Activate last-used field in panel 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + W — Close All 

Shift + Ctrl + W — Close document 

Alt + Ctrl + = — fit Selection in Window 

Shift + F5 — Force redraw 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Page Up — Go to first frame in thread 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Page Down — Go to last frame in thread 

Alt + Ctrl + Page Down — Go to next frame in thread 

Alt + Ctrl + Page Up — Go to previous frame in thread 

Alt + Shift + Page Down — (Presentation Mode) Last Spread 

Alt + Ctrl + N — New default document 

Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + ` — (Presentation Mode) Next Window 

Alt + Ctrl + Tab — Open / Close all panels in side tabs 

Shift + Ctrl + Tab or Shift + Ctrl + ` — (Presentation Mode) Previous window

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + S — Save all 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 5 — Show 1st spot plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 6 — Show 2nd spot plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 7 — Show 3rd spot plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 4 — Show Black plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 1 — Show cyan plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 2 — Show magenta plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + 3 — Show Yellow plate 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + ` — Show all plates 

Tab — Show / Hide all panels 

Shift + Tab — Show / Hide all panels except toolbox 

Alt + Ctrl + 7 — Toggle Character and Paragraph Modes in Control Panel 

Ctrl + 6 — Toggle Keyboard Focus in Control Panel 

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + U — Toggle measurement System 

Alt + Ctrl + 2 — Toggle between current and previous views