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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:  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 + ‘

SHIFT + CTRL + ‘

Toggle Through Cell Text Colors

SHIFT + CMD + “=”

SHIFT + CTRL + “=”

Grow Cell Text Bigger

SHIFT + CMD + “- “

SHIFT + CTRL + “- “

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

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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