Shortcuts in Writer

What are the shortcuts in Zoho Writer

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts in Writer provide an easy and quick method of executing commands while you type. Below is a listing of commonly used shortcuts for Windows and iOS.

General

Windows macOS Description
Ctrl + O ⌘ + O Open file
Ctrl + N ⌘ + N Create new
Ctrl + S ⌘ + S Save
Ctrl + Alt + S ⌘ + Option + S Save as
Ctrl + Alt + O ⌘ + Option + O Open left panel
Ctrl + A ⌘ + A Select whole document content
Ctrl + C ⌘ + C Copy
Ctrl + X ⌘ + X Cut
Backspace ⌘ + V Delete one character to the left
Delete Delete Delete one character to the right
Ctrl + Y ⌘ + Y Redo
Ctrl + Z ⌘ + Z Undo
Ctrl + V ⌘ + V Paste

Formatting

Windows macOS Description
Ctrl + Alt + 1 ⌘ + Option + 1 Apply Heading1
Ctrl + Alt + 2 ⌘ + Option + 2 Apply Heading2
Ctrl + Alt + 3 ⌘ + Option + 3 Apply Heading3
Ctrl + Alt + 4 ⌘ + Option + 4 Apply Heading4
Ctrl + Alt + 5 ⌘ + Option + 5 Apply Heading5
Ctrl + Alt + 6 ⌘ + Option + 6 Apply Heading6
Ctrl + L ⌘ + L Justify left
Ctrl + E ⌘ + E Justify center
Ctrl + R ⌘ + R Justify right
Ctrl + J ⌘ + J Justify full
Ctrl + B ⌘ + B Bold
Ctrl + I ⌘ + I Italic
Ctrl + U ⌘ + U Underline
Ctrl + K ⌘ + K Create link
Ctrl + Q ⌘ + Q Insert equations
Ctrl + Alt + D ⌘ + Option + D Create Endnote/Footnote
Ctrl + Alt + M ⌘ + Option + M Create comment
Ctrl + F ⌘ + F Find and replace text
Ctrl + Shift + C ⌘ + Shift + C Find word count
Shift + F7 Shift + F7 Use Thesaurus
Ctrl + . ⌘ + , Apply superscript
Ctrl + , ⌘ + . Apply subscript
Ctrl + Delete ⌘ + Delete Deletes word right of cursor

Table Shortcuts

Windows macOS Description
Ctrl + Alt + Tab ⌘ + Option + Tab Insert a tab space inside a table cell

Windows macOS Description
Home Home Go to the beginning of line from the current cursor position
End End Go to the end of line from the current cursor position
Ctrl + Home ⌘ + Fn + Left Move to the top of document
Ctrl + End ⌘ + Fn + Right Move to the end of document
Page Up Page Up Up one screen
Page Down Page Down Down one screen

InfoNote: Open the required document in your Writer and click the keyboard icon at the bottom of the page. Keyboard Shortcuts window will open, in which you can refer to all the list of keys.

More Shortcuts

The following table shows the keyboard combinations/shortcut codes to create random text, lists, tables, code snippet and so on in your document.

Action Shortcut
To insert dummy text

Type =rand(<number of paragraphs>), or =rand(<number of paragraphs>,<number of lines in each paragraph>) into the document and press Enter.

To insert a code snippet

Type =code(language) into the document and press Enter.

To create a table

Type =table(<number of rows>,<number of columns>) into the document and press Enter.

To create an ordered-list

Type 1. into the document, and press Space.

To create an unordered-list Type * into the document, and press Space.
To add a comment

Mac users: Command+alt+M Windows users: Ctrl+Alt+M

To apply Headings (1-6)

Mac users: Command+alt+[1-6] Windows users: Ctrl+Alt+[1-6]


Slash Command

Zoho Writer offers a variety of inline quick commands that you can use to insert special content into your document. To use an inline quick command, type a forward slash (/) followed by the command name. For example, to insert a date, you would type "/date".

You can use the up and down arrow keys to navigate through the list of available inline quick commands.
Notes
Note:
When you insert a second formatting command after the first one, the new command will add the formatting of the second command to the formatting of the first command. For example, if you type "/bold" and then type text, the text will be in bold. When you type  "/italics" after the previous text, the text you type after the second command will be both bold and italics.

The following table lists the available inline quick commands:
Info
Please note that this list is not exhaustive.
Command
Description
/formats
Insert formatting, such as bold, italic, or underline.
/text styles
Insert text style, such as normal, titles, headings, or quotes.
/change case
Change the case of the selected text.
/paragraph
Change the paragraph formatting, such as alignment, line spacing, or indentation.
/object
Insert an object, such as a table or drawing, etc
/image
Insert an image from various sources into the document.
/signature
Insert a digital signature or an initial into the document.
/reference & comments
Insert a reference, comment, TOC or bookmark, etc into the document.
/break
Insert a page break, column break, or section break into the document.
/date
Insert today's date, dynamic today's date, document created date, document last edited date or a custom date into the document.
/autofields
Insert the page count, author name, document name or document version into the document.
/formula
Insert a formula into the document.
/my information
Insert your name or contact information into the document. 

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