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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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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Insert the current time Editing text Mac CtrlShiftCmdT Source
Insert the current date Editing text Mac CtrlShiftCmdD Source
Find text in the spreadsheet Anywhere Mac CmdF Source
Find the next match Find window open Mac CmdG Source
Check spelling and grammar Anywhere Mac Cmd; Source
Add a comment to the selection Text, object or cell selected Mac ShiftCmdK Source
Group the selected objects Objects selected Mac OptionCmdG Source
Ungroup the selected objects Group selected Mac OptionShiftCmdG Source
Lock the selected objects Objects selected Mac CmdL Source
Insert an equation Editing text Mac OptionCmdE Source
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
Delete the selected rows Rows selected Mac OptionCmdDelete Source
Delete the selected columns Columns selected Mac CtrlCmdDelete 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
Paste only the formula results Cells copied Mac ShiftCmdV 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

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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