Keyboard shortcuts

Editor shortcuts. On macOS, use Cmd wherever Ctrl is shown. Press ? in the editor to open this list at any time, or open Settings, Keyboard Manager to search, rebind, and profile every command in the app. See Keyboard shortcuts editor for customizing them.

Editing

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + Z	Undo
Ctrl + Y	Redo
Ctrl + S	Export or save
Ctrl + Shift + S	Share
Delete or Backspace	Delete selected
Escape	Deselect, or close a modal
Ctrl + D	Duplicate selected
Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + X	Copy, paste, cut
Ctrl + A	Select all
Ctrl + L	Lock or unlock selected
Ctrl + M	Clip an image into a shape
Ctrl + Alt + C, Ctrl + Alt + V	Copy style, paste style
Ctrl + Alt + R	Punch out an image with the current frame's shape
Ctrl + G	Group selection
Ctrl + Shift + G	Ungroup selection
] , [	Bring forward, send backward, one step at a time

A few combinations may not register

Ctrl + L and Ctrl + Shift + I overlap with combinations some browsers reserve for their own address bar or developer tools. If either doesn't respond, that's the browser intercepting the key, not the app ignoring it.

Group and ungroup are fixed shortcuts

Ctrl + G and Ctrl + Shift + G always group and ungroup, but unlike most shortcuts on this page they are not currently listed in Settings, Keyboard Manager, so you can't search for, rebind, or include them in a custom profile. They still work exactly as shown here.

Tools

Letter-key tool shortcuts are active on an infinite-canvas scene. On a regular page, use the left panel instead.

Shortcut	Tool
V	Select and move
H	Hand, pan the canvas
F	Draw a frame
I	Insert an image
T	Text
P	Bezier pen
Shift + P	Freeform pen
L	Line
R	Shapes
Space (hold)	Temporary pan, from anywhere in the editor

See Pen tools for what each pen mode does.

Pages and slides

Shortcut	Action
Alt + S, Alt + A	Next page, previous page
Ctrl + PageDown, Ctrl + PageUp	Next page, previous page
Ctrl + Shift + N	Add a new page
Ctrl + Shift + D	Duplicate the page
Alt + Shift + 1 to 9	Go to page 1 to 9
Ctrl + Alt + P	Open the slide presenter, only where the page has a slide deck
Right arrow, Left arrow	Presenter next, previous slide, only while the presenter is open

Panels and view

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + K	Quick search and command bar
Ctrl + Shift + L	Toggle the layers panel
Alt (triple tap)	Toggle the left sidebar
Alt + 1 to 6	Jump to a left panel tab: templates, text, background, icons, items, media
Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus	Zoom in, zoom out
Ctrl + 0	Reset the view
Ctrl + '	Toggle the pixel-grid overlay
Alt + M	Pin the radial menu open, docked on screen until you toggle it again
Alt + Shift + M	Show the radial menu briefly at the cursor, then auto-close
Alt + C	Toggle the comments panel
Alt + Shift + C	Add a comment
?	Show keyboard shortcuts

Comments here means canvas annotations, not shared collaboration

The comments panel lets you pin a note to a spot on the canvas and reply to it in a thread, useful as a personal or single-editor to-do list on a design. It is not a multi-user, real-time collaboration feature, activity feeds and access-controlled sharing for comments are on the Roadmap.

AI assistant

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + Shift + I	Toggle the AI assistant panel

See the warning above, this combination competes with developer tools in some browsers.

Boards

Boards use their own single-key tools, separate from the scene tools above, active only while a board is open.

Shortcut	Tool
1	Hand
2	Select
3	Rectangle
4	Ellipse
5	Diamond
Q	Arrow / connector
W	Line
E	Pencil, freehand
T	Text
N	Sticky note
X	Eraser
Z	Toggle zen mode

See Whiteboards.

How to use it: searching, rebinding, and profiles

1. Open Settings, Keyboard Manager from inside the editor. It has its own tabs for Shortcuts, Categories, Conflicts, and Profiles.
2. Search for a command by name rather than hunting through this page, useful when you know what you want to do but not which key does it.
3. Click a shortcut to rebind it, type the new key combination, and save. If the combination is already used elsewhere, the Conflicts tab flags it so you can resolve the overlap before it causes surprises.
4. Save a set of rebindings as a named profile, useful if you're used to a different app's shortcuts and want to switch layouts without redoing every rebinding by hand.

Not every shortcut is rebindable yet

Ctrl + G, Ctrl + Shift + G, and Ctrl + ' work as fixed shortcuts but currently sit outside the Keyboard Manager's registry, so they won't appear in search, conflict checks, or a saved profile. Everything else on this page goes through the Keyboard Manager.

Common tasks

Learn the tool shortcuts fastest. Open an infinite-canvas scene (letter-key tool shortcuts don't apply on a regular page) and try V, H, F, T, P, and R one at a time while watching which tool activates in the left panel, muscle memory builds faster this way than by memorizing the table.

Free up the whole canvas temporarily. Triple-tap Alt to hide the left sidebar, and Ctrl and Shift and L to hide the layers panel, then reverse both the same way when you need them back.

Run a slide deck without opening a projector app. With a page that has a slide deck attached, press Ctrl and Alt and P to open the built-in presenter, then use the arrow keys to move slide to slide, and Escape to leave presenter mode.

Resolve two shortcuts pointing at the same key. Open Settings, Keyboard Manager and its Conflicts tab, it lists every combination currently claimed twice so you can rebind one side deliberately instead of finding out by accident mid-project.

Troubleshooting

• Ctrl + L or Ctrl + Shift + I doesn't do anything. Some browsers reserve these for their own address bar or developer tools and intercept the key before the page ever sees it. Rebind the app's shortcut to something else in Keyboard Manager if this happens consistently on your setup.
• A letter-key tool shortcut (V, H, F, T, and so on) has no effect. These only work while an infinite-canvas scene is focused. On a regular page or inside a slide deck, use the left panel's icons instead.
• You rebind a shortcut but it still triggers the old behavior somewhere. Ctrl + G, Ctrl + Shift + G, and Ctrl + ' aren't part of the rebindable registry yet, if the shortcut you're trying to change is one of these three, there is currently no way to rebind it from Keyboard Manager.
• The board tool shortcuts don't work outside a board. Numbers 1 to 5 and the letter keys Q, W, E, T, N, X, Z are scoped to whiteboards specifically, they're inactive on a page, scene, or slide deck, and the scene's own letter-key tools are inactive on a board in turn.

Related

• Keyboard shortcuts editor for rebinding, conflicts, and profiles
• Pen tools
• Grouping and layers
• Whiteboards