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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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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Go to the first page Document open Mac Home 1 more variant Source
Go to the last page Document open Mac End 1 more variant Source
Go to the previous page Document open Mac Left arrow 1 more variant Source
Go to the next page Document open Mac Right arrow 1 more variant Source
Go to a page Document open Mac CmdShiftN 1 more variant Source
Zoom in Document open Mac Cmd= 1 more variant Source
Zoom out Document open Mac Cmd- 1 more variant Source
Switch between editing and previewing the form Form editing Mac P 1 more variant Source
Turn guides on or off Form editing Mac G 1 more variant Source
Show the tab order Form editing Mac ShiftN 1 more variant Source
Move to the next document tab Several documents open Mac CtrlTab 1 more variant Source
Move to the previous document tab Several documents open Mac CtrlShiftTab 1 more variant Source
Close the current document Document open Mac CmdF4 1 more variant Source
Close all open documents Several documents open Mac CmdOptionW Source
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
Go to the next search result Search results showing Mac CmdG 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
Read the current page out loud Read out loud on Mac ShiftCmdV 1 more variant Source
Read the whole document out loud Read out loud on Mac ShiftCmdB 1 more variant Source
Pause reading out loud Reading out loud Mac ShiftCmdC 1 more variant Source
Stop reading out loud Reading out loud Mac ShiftCmdE 1 more variant Source
Edit the tag Tags panel Mac F2 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