Tableau Desktop keyboard shortcuts
Workbooks, fields, shelves, pages, and mark selection in Tableau Desktop.
45 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 14, 2026
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11 actions and 11 key variants match.
- Tableau Desktop Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Describe the sheet Worksheet | Windows CtrlE | Source |
| Run data updates on the view Worksheet | Windows F9 | Source |
| Toggle automatic data updates Worksheet | Windows F10 | Source |
| Swap rows and columns Worksheet | Windows CtrlW | Source |
| Clear the worksheet Worksheet | Windows AltShiftBackspace | Source |
| Make cells smaller Worksheet | Windows CtrlB | Source |
| Make cells bigger Worksheet | Windows CtrlShiftB | Source |
| Play the pages forward Pages shelf | Windows F4 | Source |
| Play the pages backward Pages shelf | Windows ShiftF4 | Source |
| Skip forward one page Pages shelf | Windows Ctrl. | Source |
| Skip back one page Pages shelf | Windows Ctrl, | Source |
About Tableau Desktop and its shortcuts
Tableau Desktop is built for dragging fields onto a canvas, so its keyboard supports that rather than replacing it: moving between worksheets and dashboards, duplicating a sheet, showing the view as a table, and the selection commands for working with marks.
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Tableau Public are not the same, and the browser versions lose commands. Some bindings also differ between the Windows and Mac builds.
Where the Tableau Desktop keys came from
Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Tableau Desktop. Report a key that is wrong
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