Keyboard Short Cuts

Acrobat 8 Professional

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts
Keys for selecting tools
To enable single-key shortcuts, select the Use Single-Key Accelerators To Access Tools option in General preferences.

Tool Windows Action Mac OS Action

Hand tool H H

Temporarily select Spacebar Spacebar

Hand tool

Select tool V V

Snapshot tool G G

Current zoom tool Z Z

Temporarily select Shift Shift

Dynamic Zoom tool
(when Marquee
Zoom tool is
selected)

Temporarily zoom Ctrl Option

out (when Marquee
Zoom tool is
selected)

Select Object tool R R

Object Data tool O O

Article tool A A

Crop tool C C

Link tool L L

Button tool F F

Cycle through forms Shift+F Shift+F

tools: Button, Check
Box, Combo Box, List
Box, Radio Button,
Text Field, Digital
Signature

Movie tool M M

Sound tool Shift+M Shift+M

TouchUp Text tool T T

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Tool Windows Action Mac OS Action

TouchUp Object tool Shift+T Shift+T

Distance tool B B

Cycle through Shift+B Shift+B

measuring tools:
Distance, Perimeter,
Area

Keys for editing

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Select all content Ctrl+A Command+A

Deselect all content Ctrl+Shift+A Command+Shift+A

Fit page Ctrl+0 Command+0

Keys for working with comments

To enable single-key shortcuts, select the Use Single-Key Accelerators To Access Tools option in General preferences.

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Sticky Note tool S S

Text Edits tool E E

Stamp tool K K

Current highlighting U U
tool

Cycle through high- Shift+U Shift+U

lighting tools: High-
lighter, Cross-Out
Text, Underline Text

Arrow tool D D

Cycle through Shift+D Shift+D

drawing markup
tools: Rectangle,
Oval, Arrow, Line,
Polygon, Polygon
Line

Cloud tool Q Q

Text Box tool X X

Attach file as J J
comment

Cycle through attach Shift+J Shift+J

tools: Attach File,
Attach Sound, Paste
Clipboard Image

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Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Move focus to Tab Tab

comment

Move focus to next Shift+Tab Shift+Tab

comment

Open pop-up Enter Return

window for
comment that has
focus

Send and receive O O

comments in
browser-based
review

Go back online I I

Keys for navigating a PDF

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Previous screen Page Up Page Up

Next screen Page Down Page Down

First page Home or Home or

Shift+Ctrl+Page Up Shift+Command+Up
or Shift+Ctrl+Up Arrow
Arrow

Last page End or End or

Shift+Ctrl+Page Shift+Command+Do
Down or wn Arrow
Shift+Ctrl+Down
Arrow

Previous page Left arrow or Left arrow or

Ctrl+Page Up Command+Page Up

Next page Right arrow or Right arrow or

Ctrl+Page Down Command+Page
Down

Previous view Alt+Left arrow Command+Left

arrow

Next view Alt+Right arrow Command+Right

arrow

Previous document Alt+Shift+Left arrow Not available

(with multiple PDFs
open in a single
doument window)

Next document (with Alt+Shift+Right Not available

multiple PDFs open arrow
in a single doument
window)

Scroll up Up Arrow Up Arrow

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Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Scroll down Down Arrow Down Arrow

Scroll (when Hand Spacebar Spacebar

tool is selected)

Zoom in Ctrl+equal sign Command+equal

sign

Zoom out Ctrl+hyphen Command+hyphen

Keys for general navigating

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Show/hide menu bar F9 Shift+Command+M

Move focus to menus F10 Control+F2

Move focus to Shift+F8 Shift+F8

toolbar in browser

Move to next open Ctrl+F6 Command+F6

document (when
focus is on document
pane)

Move to previous Ctrl+Shift+F6 Command+Shift+F6

open document
(when focus is on
document pane)

Close current docu- Ctrl+F4 Command+F4

ment

Close all open Ctrl+Shift+W Command+Shift+W

windows

Move focus to next F6 F6

tabbed page or
palette

Move focus to Shift+F6 Shift+F6

previous pane or
panel

Move focus to next Tab Tab

comment, link, or
form field in the
document pane

Move focus to docu- F5 F5

ment pane

Move focus to Shift+Tab Shift+Tab

previous comment,
link, or form field in
the document pane

Activate selected Spacebar or Enter Spacebar or Enter

tool, item (such as a
movie or bookmark),
or command

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Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Open context menu Shift+F10 Control+click

Close context menu F10 Esc

Return to Hand tool Esc Esc

or Select tool

Move focus to next Ctrl+Tab Not available

tab in a tabbed
dialog box

Move to next search F3 F3 or Command+G

result and highlight it
in the document

Select text (with Shift+arrow keys Shift+arrow keys

Select tool selected)

Select next word or Ctrl+Right Arrow or Command +Right

deselect previous Left Arrow Arrow or Left Arrow
word (with Select
tool selected)

Keys for working with navigation panels

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Show/hide naviga- F4 F4
tion pane

Open and move Ctrl+Shift+F5 Command+Shift+F5

focus to navigation
pane

Move focus among F6 F6

the document,
message bar, naviga-
tion panels

Move focus to next Tab Tab

element of the active
navigation panel:
Trash Can, Options
menu, Close box,
panel contents, and
panel button

Move to previous or Up Arrow or Down Up Arrow or Down

next navigation Arrow Arrow
panel and make it
active (when focus is
on the panel button)

Move to next naviga- Ctrl+Tab Not available

tion panel and make
it active (when focus
is anywhere in the
navigation pane)

Expand the current Right Arrow or Right Arrow or

bookmark (focus on Shift+plus sign Shift+plus sign
Bookmarks panel)

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Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Collapse the current Left Arrow or minus Left Arrow or minus

bookmark (focus on sign sign
Bookmarks panel)

Expand all book- Shift+* Shift+*

marks

Collapse selected Forward Slash (/) Forward Slash (/)

bookmark

Move focus to next Down Arrow Down Arrow

item in a navigation
panel

Move focus to Up Arrow Up Arrow

previous item in a
navigation panel

Keys for navigating the Help window

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Open Help window F1 F1 or Command+?

Close Help window Ctrl+W or Alt+F4 Command+Q

Move focus between Ctrl+Tab Not available

navigation pane and
topic pane.

Move focus to the Tab Not available

next link within a
pane.

Move focus to the Shift+Tab Not available

previous link within a
pane.

Keys for navigating the How To panel

Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Open or close How Shift+F4 Shift+F4

To panel

Open and move Shift+F1 Shift+F1

focus to How To
panel

Go to How To home Home Not available

page from a How To
topic

Move focus between Ctrl+Tab or Not available

the elements of the Ctrl+Shift+Tab
How To panel and
the header of the
How To panel

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Result Windows Action Mac OS Action

Move focus down Tab Tab

through the
elements of the How
To panel

Move focus up Shift+Tab Shift+Tab

through the
elements of the How
To panel

Go forward to next Right Arrow Right Arrow

page in How To panel
viewing history

Go back to previous Left Arrow Left Arrow

page in How To panel
viewing history

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