Keyboard shortcuts

Helping you to make changes to your GitBook documentation even faster!

Shortcut keys allow easy and quick methods for navigating or editing content.

Permissions

All member roles can use keyboard shortcuts.

Navigation

Mac	Windows	Description
Esc	Esc	Close a dialog or the search panel
⌘+K	Ctrl+K	Open the quick find panel

Editing

Mac	Windows	Description
⌘+C	Ctrl+C	Copy
⌘+V	Ctrl+V	Paste
⌘+Shift+V	Ctrl+Shift+V	Paste as text, without formatting
⌘+Z	Ctrl+Z	Undo
⌘+Shift+Z	Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo
⌘+Enter	Ctrl+Enter	Exit from content block (code, tabs, table, quote ...)
/	/	Open block-insert palette.
⌘+/	Ctrl+/	Open block-modifier palette.
⌘+B	Ctrl+B	Toggle bold
⌘+I	Ctrl+I	Toggle italic
⌘+Shift+S	Ctrl+Shift+S	Toggle strikethrough
⌘+E	Ctrl+E	Toggle inline code
⌘+K	Ctrl+K	Insert or toggle link
Tab	Tab	In a list, increase item indent level. In a code block, increase indentation level.
Shift+Tab	Shift+Tab	In a list, decrease item indent level. In a code block, decrease indentation level.
Esc	Esc	Selects the entire block