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Audacity keyboard shortcuts

Recording, transport, selection, editing, and zoom shortcuts.

42 shortcuts Windows checked September 12, 2026

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This app has a Windows catalog in Shortivo. No other operating system is published for it yet.

Everything Clipboard Editing Files and printing Messages and mail Navigation Selection System Tabs and windows View and zoom
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
New project Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlN Source
Open a file Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlO Source
Close the project Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlW Source
Save the project Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlS Source
Export audio Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlShiftE Source
Import audio Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlShiftI Source
Undo the last action Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlZ Source
Redo the last action Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlY Source
Cut the selection Selection made Windows CtrlX Source
Copy the selection Selection made Windows CtrlC Source
Paste the clipboard Track focused Windows CtrlV Source
Duplicate the selection Selection made Windows CtrlD Source
Delete the selection Selection made Windows CtrlK Source
Silence the selected audio Selection made Windows CtrlL Source
Trim to the selection Selection made Windows CtrlT Source
Split the clip Selection made Windows CtrlI Source
Join the clips Selection made Windows CtrlJ Source
Add a label at the selection Selection made Windows CtrlB Source
Add a label at the playback position Playing Windows CtrlM Source
Open preferences Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlP Source
Select everything Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlA Source
Select nothing Anywhere in the app Windows CtrlShiftA Source
Zoom in Track view Windows Ctrl1 Source
Zoom to normal Track view Windows Ctrl2 Source
Zoom out Track view Windows Ctrl3 Source
Zoom to the selection Selection made Windows CtrlE Source
Fit the project to the window Track view Windows CtrlF Source
Play or stop Anywhere in the app Windows Space Source
Pause Playing or recording Windows P Source
Record Anywhere in the app Windows R Source

About Audacity and its shortcuts

Audacity is the free audio editor most people meet first, and its keyboard covers recording, playing a selection, trimming, and moving the cursor to the exact edges of a clip. For spoken word editing, selection and playback commands do nearly all the work.

Audacity lets you rebind everything from its preferences, and the project has changed its interface substantially between recent versions. Shortivo publishes the Windows list.

Where the Audacity keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Audacity. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Audacity, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task