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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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37 actions and 73 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Move the focus to the document pane Document open Mac F5 1 more variant Source
Find in the document Document open Mac CmdF 1 more variant Source
Open the navigation pane Document open Mac CmdShiftF5 1 more variant Source
Open the Acrobat user guide Anywhere Mac F1 1 more variant Source
Change the reading settings Document open Mac ShiftCmd5 1 more variant Source
Reflow a tagged PDF Tagged PDF open Mac Cmd4 1 more variant Source
Turn read out loud on or off Document open Mac ShiftCmdY 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