Reference

Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl / opens a shortcut summary in the app. The tables below are the complete list: those for the dashboard viewer, decks, reports, paginated reports, stories, the AI chat and start pages are made from that summary’s own list. How a right-click, Shift F10 and a click with Shift or Ctrl work on every canvas is on Right-click menus and selecting several things.

Open the shortcuts list

The app lists its shortcuts in a dialog you can open from any page.

Press ? on any page to open the keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts are grouped by what they do, and they change with the page you are on.
Press Escape to close the dialog and carry on.

Global

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `K`	command palette: Search commands or ask AI. On a deck, dashboard, report or story, its own commands come first, each by its name and with its shortcut
`Ctrl` `Enter` (in the command palette)	open the typed question in AI chat
`Ctrl` `/`	keyboard-shortcuts help
`F`	full screen: what you’re reading — a dashboard, report, story or deck — alone, with no menus (not while typing)
`Esc` or `F`	leave full screen
`Esc`	close dialog / exit focus mode / clear the card selection / fold the open drawer of a canvas’s rail, the keyboard back to its tool
`↑` `↓`	move through an open menu, including the toolbar menus and the right-click menu on a chart or report block

When panels, dialogs and menus are stacked

Some windows open on top of others: a side panel opens a dialog, and the dialog opens a menu or a value list. Esc closes only the one on top. Press it again to close the next one down. When a window closes, focus goes back to the button that opened it, so you can carry on from where you were. You can’t click or tab into a window while another one is open over it.

Dashboard canvas

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `S`	save now — a message says Saved once everything has landed, or that some changes weren’t saved
`Ctrl` `Z`	undo
`Ctrl` `Shift` `Z` or `Ctrl` `Y`	redo
`Ctrl` `C` / `Ctrl` `X`	copy the selected cards, or cut them (cutting asks first, as deleting does); with text selected, the text
`Ctrl` `V`	paste the copied cards, each where it sat beside the others — onto any page, so cards move across pages
`Ctrl` `D`	duplicate the selected cards; a group is copied as a new group
`Ctrl` `A`	select every card on the page
`Shift` click / `Ctrl` click	add a card to the selection, or take it out (`⌘` click on a Mac, where `Ctrl` click opens the menu)
`Ctrl` `G` / `Ctrl` `Shift` `G`	group the selected cards, or ungroup them
Click again / Double-click	on a card of a selected group: select that card alone, to change it (`Esc` goes back to the group)
`Ctrl` `Shift` `L`	lock or unlock the selected cards
`Ctrl` `Alt` `C` / `Ctrl` `Alt` `V`	copy a card’s format, or paste it onto the selected cards
`Tab`	move between the cards on the canvas, in reading order
`Enter` or `Space`	select the focused card; with `Shift`, add it to the selection
`←` `→` `↑` `↓`	move the selected cards by one grid cell: a group as one, a card picked out of its group alone
`Shift` `←` `→` `↑` `↓`	resize the selected card by one grid cell (of several selected cards, the focused one)
`F2`	rename the focused card
`Shift` `F10` / `Menu` key	open the menu of the focused card, else of the selected cards, else of the page
`Del` or `Backspace`	delete the selected cards — it asks first, and `Ctrl` `Z` brings them back
`Ctrl` `]` / `Ctrl` `[`	move the selected cards one layer up / down, with Free overlap on
`Ctrl` `Shift` `]` / `Ctrl` `Shift` `[`	bring them to the front / send them to the back
`Esc`	clear the card selection (from a card picked out of a group, back to the group); in Preview, also go back to Edit

The canvas shortcuts stay out of your way while you’re typing in a field, and they’re off in Preview mode, except Esc. Inside a list, a menu, a tab strip or Card settings, the arrow keys and Del belong to that control. Undo and redo work from anywhere in the editor, Card settings, the rail and the bars too; the card commands and the arrow keys act from the canvas only. Esc folds an open drawer, and in Card settings (outside a list) clears the selection. On a card the keyboard is on but that isn’t selected, the card commands do nothing and say to press Enter first. While you drag a field, the drag has the keys.

Fields and field drags

In the Fields list — see Add fields to a card:

Shortcut	Action
`Enter`	add the focused field to the selected card, in the well that fits it — or start a new chart when nothing is selected
`↑` `↓` `Home` `End`	move between fields
`F2`	open a calculated field’s formula
`Space`	pick the focused field up, to drag it with the keyboard
`←` `→` `↑` `↓`	while dragging: move to the next or previous drop target — the selected card’s wells, then the charts on the page, then the empty canvas
`Space` or `Enter`	drop the field on that target
`Esc`	cancel the drag: nothing is added, and the selected card stays selected

In Search fields: Enter adds the first field whose name matches, ↓ moves into the results, and Esc clears the search.

In a well’s + Add field list: type to search, ↑ ↓ move through the fields, Enter adds the highlighted one, and Esc closes the list. When the card has no data model yet, ↑ ↓ Home End move between the models first.

Editor panels

Shortcut	Action
`←` `→` `↑` `↓` `Home` `End`	on the Arrange / Edit / Preview switch: change the mode
`↑` `↓` `Home` `End`	in Layers: move between cards
`Space`	in Layers: add the card to the selection, or take it out
`Enter`	in Layers: select the card on its own
`F2`	in Layers: rename the card
`Del` or `Backspace`	in Layers: delete the card — it asks first
`→`	in Layers: reach the row’s buttons (Lock position, Hide, Rename, Delete); `←` or `Esc` goes back to the row
`←` `→` `Esc`	on the quick bar over the selected cards: move between its buttons; `Esc` goes back to the cards
`←` `→`	along the pills at the canvas’s foot: move between them

In the colour panel a tile opens (see Colours and fonts), the arrow keys move along a section’s swatches and Enter picks one; Esc closes only the panel, back to Card settings on the same tab, with the keyboard on the tile. In the Format tab’s search box, Esc clears the search. The page tabs have keys of their own: see Multi-page dashboards.

Dashboard viewer

Shortcut	Action
`Shift` `F10` / `Menu` key	open the focused card’s menu
`Shift` `F10` / `Menu` key (on a matrix row)	open the focused first-level row’s menu: include, exclude, drill, copy, show its data

Presentations

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `Z`	undo on this slide
`Ctrl` `Shift` `Z` / `Ctrl` `Y`	redo on this slide
`Ctrl` `S`	save now
`Tab`	move between the elements of a slide, in reading order
`←` `↑` `→` `↓`	move the selected elements to the next grid line
`Alt` `←` `↑` `→` `↓`	move the selected elements by one pixel
`Shift` `←` `↑` `→` `↓`	resize the focused element
`Enter` / `F2`	edit the focused text box (Escape stops), or open a picture, chart or icon
`Alt` `F10`	go to the toolbar of the selected element, or of the text being edited (Escape goes back)
`Ctrl` `A`	select every element on the slide
`Shift` click / `Ctrl` click	add an element to the selection, or take it out (Cmd+click on a Mac); with a drag box, add what it touches
Right-click / `Shift` `F10`	open the menu of the selected elements, or of the slide (the Menu key too; Ctrl+click on a Mac)
`Alt` drag	duplicate the elements dragged: the copies land where you drop them
`Ctrl` drag	move without snapping: hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) once the drag is under way
`Ctrl` `Alt` `C` / `Ctrl` `Alt` `V`	copy the style of the selected element; paste it on the selection
`Ctrl` `Alt` `N`	comment on the selected element
`Ctrl` `C` / `Ctrl` `X` / `Ctrl` `V`	copy, cut and paste elements (between decks too)
`Ctrl` `D`	duplicate the selected elements, or the focused slide in Slides
`Del`	delete the selected elements, or the focused slide in Slides
`Ctrl` `]` / `Ctrl` `[`	bring forward / send backward a layer
`Ctrl` `Shift` `]` / `Ctrl` `Shift` `[`	bring to the front / send to the back
`Ctrl` `Shift` `L`	lock or unlock the selected elements
`Ctrl` `G`	group the selected elements (Cmd+G on a Mac); grouping groups merges them into one. With no element selected, the slide’s style artwork
`Ctrl` `Shift` `G`	ungroup the selected group (Cmd+Shift+G on a Mac); with no element selected, the slide’s style artwork
`Enter` (on a group)	enter a group and select its first element (a second click or a double-click enters it too); Escape leaves it
`Alt` `↑` `↓` (in Layers)	move an element earlier or later in reading order
`Alt` `Home` / `Alt` `End` (in Layers)	move an element to the start or the end of the reading order
`Alt` `←` `→` (in Slides)	move the focused slide earlier or later
`Shift` `F10` (in Slides)	open the focused slide’s actions
`Shift` `Space` (in Slides)	add the focused slide to the selection, or take it out; Esc clears it
`Page Up` / `Page Down`	previous or next slide
`Ctrl` `=` / `Ctrl` `-` / `Ctrl` `0`	zoom in, zoom out, fit the slide
`Space` drag	move around a zoomed slide

Reports

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `Z`	undo in the report
`Ctrl` `Shift` `Z` / `Ctrl` `Y`	redo in the report
`Tab`	move between the blocks on the page
`Enter`	edit the focused block: its text, or its settings (Escape goes back to the block)
`Space`	select the focused block (with Shift: add it to the selection, or take it out)
Right-click / `Shift` `F10`	open the menu of the selected blocks, or of the page (the Menu key too; Ctrl+click on a Mac)
`←` `↑` `→` `↓`	move the selected blocks by one grid cell
`Shift` `←` `↑` `→` `↓`	resize the focused block by one grid cell (a text block sideways only)
`Shift` click / `Ctrl` click	add a block to the selection, or take it out (Cmd+click on a Mac); drag on the empty page to select every block the box touches
`Ctrl` `A`	select every block on the page
`Ctrl` `C` / `Ctrl` `X` / `Ctrl` `V`	copy, cut and paste blocks, onto another page too: they keep their places to each other
`Ctrl` `D`	duplicate the selected blocks
`Del`	delete the selected blocks (several: once you confirm)
`Ctrl` `Shift` `L`	lock or unlock the selected blocks: a locked block doesn’t move or resize
`Ctrl` `G` / `Ctrl` `Shift` `G`	group the selected blocks, or ungroup them
Click again / Double-click	on a block of a selected group: select that block alone, to change it (Escape goes back to the group)
`F2` (in Layers, on a group)	rename the group
`Esc`	clear the selection (from a block picked out of a group, back to the group)
`↑` `↓` `Home` `End` (in Pages)	move between the pages; Enter opens one
`Alt` `↑` `↓` (in Pages)	move the focused page up or down
`F2` (in Pages)	rename the focused page
`Shift` `F10` (in Pages)	open the focused page’s menu: rename, duplicate, move or delete it
`Ctrl` `=` / `Ctrl` `-` / `Ctrl` `0`	zoom in, zoom out, fit the page, where the report is read

Paginated reports

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `Z`	undo in the paginated report
`Ctrl` `Shift` `Z` / `Ctrl` `Y`	redo in the paginated report
Right-click / `Shift` `F10` (on a column header)	open the column’s menu: its settings, move it, group rows by it, add a subtotal, remove it (the Menu key too)
Right-click / `Shift` `F10` (on a document section)	open the section’s menu: move it up or down, or remove it (the Menu key too)

Stories

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `Z` / `Ctrl` `Shift` `Z`	undo or redo in the section being edited
`Ctrl` `B` / `Ctrl` `I` / `Ctrl` `U`	bold, italic, underline
`Ctrl` `F`	find and replace in the section being edited
`Ctrl` `Alt` `↑` `↓`	move the block the caret is in up or down
`Ctrl` `D`	duplicate the block the caret is in (in a list its item, in a table its row), or the selected block
`Shift` `Tab`	from the text, go to the ⋮⋮ handle of the block the caret is in (in a list it outdents, in a table it goes back a cell)
`Shift` `F10` / `Menu` key	open a block’s menu: on its ⋮⋮ handle, a selected chart or picture, or in a table
`Shift` right-click	the browser’s own menu, where a block’s menu would open
`Shift` `F10` (in Sections)	open the focused section’s options
`Alt` `F10`	go to the toolbar of the text being edited (Escape goes back)
`/`	insert a block: a heading, a list, a table, a chart, live data…
`#`	insert a number bound to its data
`@`	mention a person

AI chat

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `J`	open the AI chat
`Ctrl` `Shift` `.`	change the effort level for your next questions

Start pages

Shortcut	Action
`Tab`	move between the ways to start, in order
`Enter`	start the way in focus
`Esc`	go back: to the page before, or to the list when the page was opened from outside

SQL editor

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl` `Enter`	run the query
`Ctrl` `Shift` `F`	format SQL

On macOS, use ⌘ in place of Ctrl, except for a click: there Ctrl click (with or without Shift) opens the right-click menu, and ⌘ click adds to the selection.