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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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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Clear the worksheet Worksheet Mac OptionShiftDelete 1 more variant Source
Make cells smaller Worksheet Mac CmdB 1 more variant Source
Make cells bigger Worksheet Mac CmdShiftB 1 more variant Source
Play the pages forward Pages shelf Mac F4 1 more variant Source
Play the pages backward Pages shelf Mac ShiftF4 1 more variant Source
Skip forward one page Pages shelf Mac Cmd. 1 more variant Source
Skip back one page Pages shelf Mac Cmd, 1 more variant Source
Use rectangular selection View Mac A 1 more variant Source
Use lasso selection View Mac D 1 more variant Source
Use radial selection View Mac S 1 more variant Source
Select all the data View Mac CmdA 1 more variant Source
Copy the selected data View Mac CmdC 1 more variant Source
Clear the mark selection View Mac Esc 1 more variant Source
Cycle forward through worksheets Workbook open Mac ShiftCmd] 1 more variant Source
Cycle back through worksheets Workbook open Mac ShiftCmd[ 1 more variant 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

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