Choose the hand tool keyboard shortcut in 5 apps
Choose the hand tool has a documented keyboard shortcut in 5 apps here, among them Adobe Acrobat, Adobe After Effects, Adobe InDesign, Confluence. The most common keys are H on Windows and H on a Mac.
Keys on this page were last checked against their sources on September 14, 2026.
| App | Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat | Windows H | Mac H | Choose the Hand tool |
| Adobe After Effects | Windows H | Mac H | Choose the Hand tool |
| Adobe InDesign | Windows H | Mac H | Choose the Hand tool |
| Confluence | Windows H | Mac H | Choose the hand tool |
| Final Cut Pro | Windows Not documented | Mac H | Choose the hand tool |
What most apps settled on for Choose the hand tool
On Windows, H is the combination in 4 of the 4 apps here that document one. On a Mac, it is H in 5 of 5. All 4 apps here that document a Windows key use H, which makes this one of the safer habits to carry between apps.
Where the table is deliberately empty
1 documents it for Mac only. A blank there is a gap in that maker documentation for Choose the hand tool, not an oversight here, and it is never filled by converting the other system.
If the keys for Choose the hand tool do nothing
The 5 apps listed here each decide this for themselves, so the first thing to check is that you are reading the row for the app you are actually in, and the column for your system. After that, check the app version, since choose the hand tool is the kind of command makers move between releases. Report a correction
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