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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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Everything Comments and review Editing Files and printing Navigation Selection Tabs and windows View and zoom

36 actions and 36 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Choose the Hand tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows H Source
Choose the Marquee Zoom tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows Z Source
Cycle the zoom tools Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows ShiftZ Source
Choose the Edit Object tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows O Source
Enter or exit form editing Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows A Source
Choose the Crop tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows C Source
Choose the Link tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows L Source
Edit text Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows T Source
Redact Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows ShiftY Source
Open the JavaScript debugger Document open Windows CtrlJ Source
Insert blank pages Document open Windows ShiftCtrlT Source
Insert files Document open Windows CtrlShiftI Source
Delete pages Document open Windows CtrlShiftD Source
Open or close the task pane Document open Windows ShiftF4 Source
Choose the Add a stamp tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows K Source
Choose the drawing markup tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows D Source
Choose the Cloud tool Document open Single-key accelerators must be switched on in Acrobat preferences, under General. Windows Q Source
Go to the previous screen Document open Windows Page Up Source
Go to the next screen Document open Windows Page Down Source
Go to the first page Document open Windows Home Source
Go to the last page Document open Windows End Source
Go to the previous page Document open Windows Left arrow Source
Go to the next page Document open Windows Right arrow Source
Go to a page Document open Windows CtrlShiftN Source
Zoom in Document open Windows Ctrl= Source
Zoom out Document open Windows Ctrl- Source
Move to the next document tab Several documents open Windows CtrlTab Source
Move to the previous document tab Several documents open Windows CtrlShiftTab Source
Close the current document Document open Windows CtrlF4 Source
Move the focus to the document pane Document open Windows F5 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