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Close the document window

CtrlW

Windows Desktop app Visual Studio 2022, General profile

Practice this

Press Ctrl + W to close the document window in Visual Studio. It is listed for Windows, and no Mac version is documented here.

Where it works: Document open

Ctrl and F4 also closes the document. These are the defaults for Visual Studio's General settings profile. Other profiles change them.

Where this comes from

Keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio - Microsoft Learn

Documentation checked on 2026-09-14. That is a documentation review, not a test run inside the application.

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