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Keyboard Shortcuts

Collection of all keyboard shortcuts for rundown & prompter

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Written by John Alexander
Updated over a year ago

Our keyboard shortcuts are the easiest and quickest way to rapidly build out your rundowns. We support shortcuts across both Mac and PC.


​Tip: Β You can quickly see a list of all keyboard shortcuts by clicking the question mark icon near the top-right of your rundown


Rundown Shortcuts

These shortcuts are only accessible from the rundown view

Row and Column Management

Mac Shortcut

PC Shortcut

Action Description

Tilde (~)

Tilde (~)

Select Row

CMD + D

CTRL + D

Duplicate Row

SHIFT + Option + UpArrow

ALT + SHIFT + UpArrow

Jump to top of rundown

SHIFT + Option + UpArrow

ALT + SHIFT + UpArrow

Jump to bottom of rundown

CMD + ;

CTRL + ;

Convert to title row / item row

CMD + UpArrow

CTRL + UpArrow

Move row above

CMD + DownArrow

CTRL + DownArrow

Move row below

SHIFT + CMD + UpArrow

SHIFT + CTRL + UpArrow

Add row above

SHIFT + CMD + DownArrow

SHIFT + CTRL + DownArrow

Add row below

CMD + Option + UpArrow

CTRL + ALT + UpArrow

Add title row above

CMD + Option + DownArrow

CTRL + ALT + DownArrow

Add title row below

CMD + LeftArrow

CTRL + LeftArrow

Move Column Left

CMD + RightArrow

CTRL + RightArrow

Move Column Right

SHIFT + CMD + LeftArrow

CTRL + Shift + LeftArrow

Shrink column

SHIFT + CMD + RightArrow

CTRL + Shift + RightArrow

Grow column

CMD + E

CTRL + E

Hide Column

SHIFT + CMD + E

SHIFT + CTRL + E

Show All Columns

Text and Cell Formatting

Mac Shortcut

PC Shortcut

Action Description

CMD + B

CTRL + B

Make cell text bold

CMD + I

CTRL + I

Make cell text italic

CMD + \

CTRL + \

Clear all formatting

SHIFT + CMD + ;

SHIFT + CTRL + ;

Toggle Through Cell BG Colors

SHIFT + CMD + β€˜

SHIFT + CTRL + β€˜

Toggle Through Cell Text Colors

SHIFT + CMD + β€œ=”

SHIFT + CTRL + β€œ=”

Grow Cell Text Bigger

SHIFT + CMD + β€œ- β€œ

SHIFT + CTRL + β€œ- β€œ

Grow Cell Text Smaller

CMD + 1

CTRL + 1

Red BG, White Text

CMD + 2

CTRL + 2

Normal BG, Red Text

CMD + 3

CTRL + 3

Green BG, Black Text

CMD + 4

CTRL + 4

Yellow BG, White Text

Document and Collaboration Management

Mac Shortcut

PC Shortcut

Action Description

CMD + S

CTRL + S

Save a timestamped copy of rundown to the user dashboard

ALT + I

ALT + I

Invite crew

ALT + N

ALT + N

New rundown

CMD + P

CTRL + P

Print via PDF

CMD + F

CTRL + F

Search

CMD + Z

CTRL + Z

Undo & Activity Feed

CMD + G

CTRL + G

Place a timestamped in the selected cell

SHIFT + OPTION + S

-

Save as new global element

OPTION + S

-

Publish current version to GE manager

SHIFT + CMD + S

-

Publish current version everywhere

OPTION + R

-

Retrieve latest GE changes


Prompter shortcuts

learn more about prompter here

These shortcuts are only available within prompter view, they are not accessible in rundown view

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Scrolling Control

Mac Shortcut

PC Shortcut

Action

Spacebar

Spacebar

Start / stop scrolling

Up arrow

Up arrow

Decrease scroll speed

Down arrow

Down arrow

Increase scroll speed

-

-

Stop Scrolling

Shift + 0 to Shift + 9

Shift + 0 to Shift + 9

Speed: -10 to -1

1 to 9, 0

1 to 9, 0

Speed: 1 to 10

Shift Option 0 to Shift Option 9

Shift Alt 0 to Shift Alt 9

Speed: -20 to -11

Option 0 to Option 9

Alt 0 to Alt 9

Speed: 11 to 20

Navigating and viewing

Mac Shortcut

PC Shortcut

Action

Left arrow

Left arrow

Jump to previous script item

Right arrow

Right arrow

Jump to next script item

Shift + left

Shift + left

Jump to previous script item and skip items with no script content

Shift + right

Shift + right

Jump to next script item and skip items with no script content

Shift + up arrow

Shift + up arrow

Jump to first script

Shift + down arrow

Shift + down arrow

Jump to last script

Option + =

Option + =

Zoom increase

Option + -

Option + -

Zoom decrease

Layout Adjustments

Mac Shortcut

PC Shortcut

Action

Shift + Command + Left

Shift + Ctrl + Left

Decrease width

Shift + Command + Right

Shift + Ctrl + Right

Increase width

Ctrl + Command + Shift

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