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Google Docs keyboard shortcuts

Browser document shortcuts for the default Google Docs keymap.

34 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 11, 2026

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Every system Mac Windows
Everything Clipboard Comments and review Editing Files and printing Navigation Paragraphs and lists Search Selection Text formatting
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Paste text without its styling Document text Mac CmdShiftV 1 more variant Source
Attach or change a link Selection or cursor Mac CmdK 1 more variant Source
Begin a new page Pages format Mac CmdEnter 1 more variant Source
Make the paragraph Heading 1 Paragraph style Mac CmdOption1 1 more variant Source
Attach a review comment Selection or cursor Mac CmdOptionM 1 more variant Source
Add a footnote reference Document text Mac CmdOptionF 1 more variant Source
Remove direct text styling Selected text Mac Cmd\ 1 more variant Source
Cross out selected text Strikethrough Mac CmdShiftX 1 more variant Source
Find an editing command Tool finder Mac Option/ 1 more variant Source
Open the shortcut reference Editor focused Mac Cmd/ 1 more variant Source
Copy selection Selection Mac CmdC 1 more variant Source
Cut selection Selection Mac CmdX 1 more variant Source
Paste clipboard Document Mac CmdV 1 more variant Source
Undo change Editor Windows CtrlZ Source
Redo change Editor Windows CtrlShiftZ Source
Open Editor Windows CtrlO Source
Print Document Windows CtrlP Source
Find Document Windows CtrlF Source
Replace Document Windows CtrlH Source
Find next Search Windows CtrlG Source
Find previous Search Windows CtrlShiftG Source
Tool finder Editor Windows Alt/ Source
Repeat action Editor Windows CtrlY Source
Bold Text Windows CtrlB Source
Italic Text Windows CtrlI Source
Underline Text Windows CtrlU Source
Strikeout Text Windows AltShift5 Source
Superscript Text Windows Ctrl. Source
Subscript Text Windows Ctrl, Source
Copy formatting Text Windows CtrlAltC Source

About Google Docs and its shortcuts

Google Docs is built for drafting and commenting together, and its most valuable shortcuts are the collaborative ones: moving between comments and suggestions, opening the outline, and applying heading styles so the document stays navigable for everyone else. Plain text formatting works much as it does in any editor, which is deliberate.

Docs is a web application, so a few combinations belong to your browser first and never reach the document. Google documents one list that covers both Windows and Mac with the modifier swapped, but the exceptions to that pattern are real, and the table marks them.

Where the Google Docs keys came from

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

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