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Keyboard shortcuts

Supercharge your workflow with our nifty keyboard shortcuts ⚡

Written by Robi (coFounder @Jitter)
Updated over a week ago

General

Command

Shortcut

Copy

⌘ C or Ctrl C

Copy Special (Export Selection as PNG)

⌘ ⇧ C or Ctrl ⇧ C

Cut

⌘ X or Ctrl X

Paste

⌘ V or Ctrl V

Paste and Replace

⌘ ⇧ V or Ctrl ⇧ V

Duplicate

⌘ D or Ctrl D

Delete

Delete or

Undo

⌘ Z or Ctrl Z

Redo

⇧ ⌘ Z or ⇧ Ctrl Z

Rename

⌘ R or Ctrl R or F2

Toggle Design/Animate

M

Clear Selection

Esc

Select All

⌘ A or Ctrl A

Tools

Command

Shortcut

Rectangle tool

R

Ellipse tool

O

Text tool

T

Pen tool

P

Comment

C

View

Command

Shortcut

Zoom in

+ or =

Zoom out

-

Zoom to 100%

⇧ 0 or ⇧ )

Zoom to fit

⇧ 1 or ⇧ !

Zoom to selection

⇧ 2 or ⇧ @

Pan

H or Mouse middle click

Timeline

Command

Shortcut

Play / Pause

Space

Move time cursor by 10ms

, or .

Move time cursor by 100ms

⇧ , or ⇧ .

Move to previous/next keyframe

⌥ , or ⌥ .

Move to artboard start/end

⇧ ⌥ , or ⇧ ⌥ .

Layers

Command

Shortcut

Move element by 1px

← → ↑ ↓

Move element by 10px

+ ← → ↑ ↓

Group

⌘ G or Ctrl G

Ungroup

⇧ ⌘ G or ⇧ Ctrl G

Create mask

⌃ ⌘ M or Ctrl Alt M

Select next sibling

Tab

Select previous sibling

⇧ Tab

Select children

Return or Enter

Select parent

⇧ Return or ⇧ Enter

Edit text (when text layer is selected)

Enter

Collapse non-selected lines

⌥ L or Alt L

Bring to front/back

] and [

Bring forward/backward

⇧ ⌘ ] and ⇧ ⌘ [ or ⇧ Ctrl ] and ⇧ Ctrl [

Text Editing

These shortcuts work when editing text

Command

Shortcut

Exit text mode

Esc

Remove character left

Remove word left

⌥ ⌫ or Alt

Remove character right

Delete

Remove word right

⌥ Delete or Alt Delete

Move cursor left/right

and

Move cursor word left/right

⌥ ← and ⌥ → or Alt ← and Alt →

Move to line start/end

⌘ ← and ⌘ → or Ctrl ← and Ctrl →

Expand selection left/right

⇧ ← and ⇧ →

Select all

⌘ A or Ctrl A

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