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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5 actions and 10 key variants match.
- Adobe Acrobat Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Open the output preview Document open | Mac ~ 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 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 |
| Switch between editing and previewing the form Form editing | Mac P 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