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Cut the selection

CtrlX

Windows Desktop app Visual Studio 2022, General profile

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In Visual Studio, Ctrl + X will cut the selection. It is listed for Windows, and no Mac version is documented here.

Where it works: Anywhere

Shift and Delete also cut. 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.

The same task in other apps

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Cut selection Mozilla Firefox Ctrl + X
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Cut the selection GIMP Ctrl + X
Cut selection Google Docs Cmd + X
Cut selection Google Sheets Cmd + X
Cut selection Google Slides Ctrl + X

More Visual Studio shortcuts

Find text in the file Ctrl + F
Find every reference to a symbol Shift + F12
Find text across files Ctrl + Shift + F
Find the next match F3
Find the next match of the selection Ctrl + F3
Format the whole document Ctrl + K then Ctrl + D
Format only the selection Ctrl + K then Ctrl + F
Go to a line number Ctrl + G

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