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Microsoft Access keyboard shortcuts

Views, datasheets, records, and design tools in Access desktop databases.

40 shortcuts Windows checked September 14, 2026

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This app has a Windows catalog in Shortivo. No other operating system is published for it yet.

Everything Editing Files and printing Formulas and data Navigation Paragraphs and lists Selection Tabs and windows View and zoom

8 actions and 8 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Open an existing database Anywhere Windows CtrlO Source
Save the database object Object open Windows CtrlS Source
Open the Save As dialog Object open Windows F12 Source
Print the current object Object open Windows CtrlP Source
Open the help window Anywhere Windows F1 Source
Close the active database window Object open Windows CtrlW Source
Save the current record Entering data Windows ShiftEnter Source
Open the zoom box Entering data Windows ShiftF2 Source

About Microsoft Access and its shortcuts

Microsoft Access is a desktop database, and its keyboard spans several interfaces in one program: the navigation pane, datasheets, forms, queries and the design views behind them. The datasheet commands feel like a spreadsheet, while the design views follow older Office conventions.

Access is Windows only, so there is no Mac column. Commands depend heavily on which object and which view you are in, and a form can override them with its own.

Where the Microsoft Access keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Microsoft Access. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Microsoft Access, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task