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Numbers keyboard shortcuts

Sheets, cells, formulas, and tables in Apple's spreadsheet app on a Mac.

65 shortcuts Mac checked September 14, 2026

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

18 actions and 18 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Add a row above the selected cells Table cells selected Mac OptionUp arrow Source
Add a row below the selected cells Table cells selected Mac OptionDown arrow Source
Add a column to the right of the cells Table cells selected Mac OptionRight arrow Source
Add a column to the left of the cells Table cells selected Mac OptionLeft arrow Source
Select every row the selection touches Table cells selected Mac OptionCmdReturn Source
Select every column the selection touches Table cells selected Mac CtrlCmdReturn Source
Open an empty Formula Editor Cell selected Mac = Source
Open the Formula Editor with the cell contents Cell selected Mac Ctrl= Source
Turn filters on or off Table selected Mac OptionCmdF Source
Apply the sorting rules Table selected Mac ShiftCmdR Source
Collapse the selected category groups Categories in a table Mac Cmd8 Source
Expand the selected category groups Categories in a table Mac Cmd9 Source
Jump to the first filled cell in the row Cell selected Mac OptionCmdLeft arrow Source
Jump to the last filled cell in the row Cell selected Mac OptionCmdRight arrow Source
Jump to the first filled cell in the column Cell selected Mac OptionCmdUp arrow Source
Jump to the last filled cell in the column Cell selected Mac OptionCmdDown arrow Source
Merge the selected cells Table cells selected Mac CtrlCmdM Source
Unmerge the selected cells Table cells selected Mac CtrlShiftCmdM Source

About Numbers and its shortcuts

Numbers is a spreadsheet that thinks in tables on a canvas rather than one endless grid, and its keyboard reflects that: commands act on a table, a row or a cell, and there are view commands for moving around a sheet that holds several tables at once.

Numbers is Mac only here. Anyone arriving from another spreadsheet should expect genuine differences rather than renamed equivalents, because the underlying model is not the same.

Where the Numbers keys came from

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

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