Adobe Acrobat keyboard shortcuts
Tools, comments, page navigation, forms, and read aloud shortcuts.
57 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 14, 2026
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- Adobe Acrobat Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Choose the Hand tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac H 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Select tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac V 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Marquee Zoom tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac Z 1 more variant | Source |
| Cycle the zoom tools Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac ShiftZ 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Select Object tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac R 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Edit Object tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac O 1 more variant | Source |
| Enter or exit form editing Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac A 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Crop tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac C 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Link tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac L 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Text Field tool Form editing Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac F 1 more variant | Source |
| Edit text Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac T 1 more variant | Source |
| Redact Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac ShiftY 1 more variant | Source |
| Open the JavaScript debugger Document open | Mac CmdJ 1 more variant | Source |
| Insert blank pages Document open | Mac ShiftCmdT 1 more variant | Source |
| Insert files Document open | Mac ShiftCmdI 1 more variant | Source |
| Delete pages Document open | Mac ShiftCmdD 1 more variant | Source |
| Open the output preview Document open | Mac ~ 1 more variant | Source |
| Move the focus to the next pane Anywhere | Mac F6 1 more variant | Source |
| Move the focus to the previous pane Anywhere | Mac ShiftF6 1 more variant | Source |
| Open or close the task pane Document open | Mac ShiftF4 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Add a comment tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac S 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Add a stamp tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac K 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the highlighting tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac U 1 more variant | Source |
| Cycle the highlight, underline and strikethrough tools Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac ShiftU 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the drawing markup tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac D 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Cloud tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac Q 1 more variant | Source |
| Choose the Add text comment tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. | Mac X 1 more variant | Source |
| Reply to the comment Comments list | Mac R 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the previous screen Document open | Mac Page Up 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the next screen Document open | Mac Page Down 1 more variant | Source |
About Adobe Acrobat and its shortcuts
Adobe Acrobat is where PDFs are read, marked up and signed, and its keyboard splits that way: navigating pages and zoom on one side, and the comment, annotation and form tools on the other. The navigation commands carry over to most other PDF readers.
Acrobat has a setting that lets single keys act as tool shortcuts, and it is off by default, so half the published list does nothing until you turn it on. Reader and the full Acrobat also differ in what they offer.
Where the Adobe Acrobat keys came from
Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Adobe Acrobat. Report a key that is wrong
To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Adobe Acrobat, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task