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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3 actions and 3 key variants match.
- Google Docs Documented
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