Shortcut keys in Google Docs

Google Document is an online word processor freely provided by Google Inc. It provides you direct access to other tools of Google such as sheets, notes, calendars and thus is preferred more than the other word processors. Although it is an online application, it works in offline mode too. Another advantage is that it automatically saves your data and you do not need to worry about saving your data time after again. For efficient use of this processor, shortcuts are provided which may vary for android or iPhone users. To open a list of keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs, press Ctrl + / (Windows, Chrome OS) or ⌘ + / (Mac). Now, most of the shortcut keys are common for all document editors such as MS Word, Wordpad or Google docs. But there are still some shortcuts which are customised for Google docs only, as Google docs is the most advanced document editor.

Shortcut keys for Document Editors:

Ctrl+b, to bold the text.
Ctrl+i,to Italicise the text.
Ctrl+U, to underline the text.
Ctrl+., to add superscript.
Ctrl+,, to add subscript.
Alt+Shift+5, To use strikethrough.
Ctrl+Space, to clear text formatting.
Ctrl+Shift+., to increase font sizes.
Ctrl+Shift+,, to decrease font size.
Ctrl+[, to increase paragraph indentation.
Ctrl+], to decrease paragraph indentation.
Ctrl+Alt+O, to apply normal text style.
Ctrl+Alt +[1-6], to apply headings 1 to 6.
Ctrl+Enter, to insert a page break.
Ctrl+Shift+I, To apply left alignment.
Ctrl+Shift+E, to apply centre alignment.
Ctrl+Shift+R, to apply right alignment.
Ctrl+Shift+J, to justify alignment.
Ctrl+Shift+up/down arrow, to move the paragraph up and down.
Ctrl+Alt+k, to resize the image larger.
Ctrl+Alt+j, to resize the image smaller.
Ctrl+Shift+>, to increase the font size, replace > with < to decrease the font size.
Ctrl+Shift+7 will apply the number list to the text. 8 can be used in place of 7 for the bulleted list.
Alt+up/down arrow used to move the move up and down.
Esc is used to return focus to the document text.

Special shortcut keys for Google Docs:

Ctrl+Shift+S, this is a voice typing shortcut which will allow you to automatically type data into google docs by recognizing your voice.
Ctrl+Shift+Y, used to open a dictionary in google documents.
Ctrl+Shift+c is used to check the word count.
Ctrl+Alt+m is used to insert comments.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+a is used to open a discussion thread.
Ctrl+Alt+f, to insert a footnote.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I, to explore through other documents while working on a document in google docs.
Triple-click, to select a paragraph.

For iPhone/iPad, replace ”Ctrl” with “⌘” and apply the same shortcuts for increasing time efficiency and productivity.

Shortcut keys in Google Docs

Shortcut keys for Document Editors:

Special shortcut keys for Google Docs:

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