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  1. The dashboard
  2. The space directory
  3. The space sidebar
  4. Keyboard shortcuts
  5. Complete your mission

Give a person some space food, and they'll eat for a day; teach a person to rehydrate their own space food, and they're set for the whole mission. Or something like that. Keyboard shortcuts fall into this basket. We could give you a list here, but then you'd need to keep referring to this page. The best way to go is to show you how to find the list of keyboard shortcuts within Confluence.

Your recruits also need to work fast, so you'll need to pass this wisdom on to them.

Find the keyboard shortcuts

To open the list of keyboard shortcuts in Confluence, do any of the following:

  • Select the help icon  in the upper-right corner of the screen, then select Keyboard Shortcuts
  • When viewing a page, press Shift+?
  • While editing a page, select the question mark icon in the editor toolbar

What you'll see is a dialog listing the available keyboard shortcuts in Confluence for your specific operating system and browser. Expand the menus below to see the full list.

Screenshot: Keyboard shortcuts menu for Google Chrome on macOS.


The keyboard shortcuts are broken up into 3 categories:

  • General – Global, page and blog post shortcuts.
  • Editor – Text editing and formatting shortcuts.
  • Editor Autoformatting – Wiki markup and autoformatting shortcuts.

Expand the menu below to see an overview of the shortcuts in this version of Confluence.

List of Confluence shortcuts

General

Global shortcuts

ActionWindowsMac
Add page cc
Go to dashboardg then dg then d
Open notificationsg then ng then n
Open recently viewedg then rg then r
Browse current spaceg then sg then s
Open shortcut help??
Show skip linksu then 8u then 8
Quick search

g then g
/

g then g
/

Toggle space sidebar[[
Editee
Sharess

Page/blog post actions

ActionWindowsMac
Add blogbb
Editee
Commentmm

Next inline comment

n

n

Previous inline comment

p

p

Close inline comment]]
Watch pageww
Edit labelsll
View inline commentvv
Shares or ks or k
View attachmentstt
Favorite pageff

Editor

Block formatting

ActionWindowsMac
ParagraphCtrl + 0⌘ + 0

Heading level (of the number chosen)

Ctrl+(1–6)

⌘ +(1–6)

PreformattedCtrl + 7⌘ + 7
QuoteCtrl + 8⌘ + 8
Add a bullet list

Ctrl + Shift + B, or
* + Space

⌘ + Shift + B, or
* + Space
Add a numbered listCtrl + Shift + N (Firefox only), or 
1. + Space
⌘ + Shift + N (Firefox only), or 
1. + Space

Strikethrough

Ctrl + Shift + S

⌘ + Shift + S

Subscript

Ctrl + Shift +

⌘ + Shift + ,

Superscript

Ctrl + Shift +

⌘ + Shift + .

Monospace

Ctrl + Shift + M

⌘ + Shift + M

Clear formatting

Ctrl + \

⌘ + \

Rich formatting

Action

Windows

Mac

Paste text without formatting

Ctrl + Shift + V

For Safari only: Ctrl + Shift + Alt + V 

⌘ + Shift + V

For Safari only: ⌘ + Shift + Option + V 

Files and images

Ctrl + M

⌘ + M

Link (opens Insert link dialog)Ctrl + K⌘ + K
Insert markup (opens Insert markup dialog)Ctrl + Shift + D⌘ + Shift + D
Macro (opens Select macro dialog)Ctrl + Shift + A⌘ + Shift + A
Toggle to next inline commentCtrl + Shift + O⌘ + Shift + O
Toggle to previous inline commentCtrl + Shift + L⌘ + Shift + L
Close inline commentCtrl + Shift + Z⌘ + Shift + Z

Table

Ctrl + Shift + I

⌘ + Shift + I

Insert row above

Alt + Up arrow

Alt + Up arrow

Insert row below

Alt + Down arrow

Alt + Down arrow

Cut row

Ctrl + Shift + X

⌘ + Shift + X

Copy row

Ctrl + Shift + C

⌘ + Shift + C

Paste row above

Ctrl + Shift + Y

⌘ + Shift + Y

Emoji menu

Ctrl + Shift + ;

⌘ + Shift + ;

Paste without formatting

Ctrl + Shift + V

⌘ + Shift + V

Paste without formatting (Safari)


⌘ + Shift + Option + V

Editing actions

ActionWindowsMac
Preview

Ctrl + Shift + E

⌘ + Shift + E

Save a form or a page

Ctrl + S, or

Ctrl + Enter

⌘ + S, or 

⌘ + Enter

Show skip linksCtrl + Shift + U + 8⌘ + Shift + U + 8

Editor autoformatting

Font formatting

ActionWindowsMac
Bold text*bold**bold*
Underline text+underline++underline+
Italic text_italic__italic_
Monospace text{{monospace}}

{{monospace}\

Autocomplete

Action

WindowsMac
Image/media!!
Link[[
Macro{ or /{ or /
Mentions@@
Emoji::
Horizontal rule------

Tables

Windows

Action

Mac OS X

||||| + enter

Add a table with a custom number of columns, as specified by the vertical bars (you can't insert a nested table with this shortcut)

||||| + enter

||heading||heading||  + enter

Add a table with custom headings as specified by the text (you can't insert a nested table with this shortcut)

||heading||heading||  + enter

Styles

Action

WindowsMac

Heading 1

h1. + Space, or

# + Space

h1. + Space, or

# + Space

Heading3

h3. + Space, or

### + Space

h3. + Space, or

### + Space

Quote

bq. + Space, or

> + Space

bq. + Space, or

> + Space

Lists

Action

WindowsMac
  1. list

1. + Space

1. + Space

  • bullets

*+ Space, or

- + Space

*+ Space, or

- + Space

task

[]

[]


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You can turn the 'General' keyboard shortcuts off when you visit the General tab in the keyboard shortcuts dialog.

Take some time to open the dialog and take a look at the shortcuts, and maybe find some you'll use a lot. Then, start practicing!

Next, we'll wrap up this mission and give you some ideas about where to head from here.

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Last modified on Feb 4, 2025

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