55 Adobe InDesign Shortcuts To Work Quicker

Keyboard shortcuts are the best way to speed up and increase productivity for any task, as they limit your time spent opening things. These Adobe InDesign shortcuts will literally make your workflow easy.

You might have been using shortcut keys for your daily windows task but here we will see a better way to task your Adobe InDesign.

You may use Indesign daily to create works such as posters, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books, and ebooks, or something else, or sometimes for basic graphic designing. After utilizing these Adobe InDesign shortcuts you will be working more efficiently at your workflow.

Maybe you are doing the same things that I was doing before knowing these shortcuts like you find a tool and click it with a mouse. How good it would be if there is a shortcut key that exists for a particular task. First, this will seem hard, but after using these Adobe InDesign shortcuts you will find very easily interact with your workflow.

By pressing a few keys as Adobe InDesign shortcuts you can select tools, manipulating images, and can even adjust your project’s canvas. All of these shortcut keys will effectively run on both Windows and Mac systems but for some shortcut keys, it could be different. Whereby Mac has a command key and Windows has a CTRL-key.

I assure you that after this article you won’t need to search for Adobe InDesign keyboard shortcuts.

55 Adobe InDesign Shortcuts

1. Basic shortcuts

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
1	Copy	Ctrl + C	Command + C
2	Cut	Ctrl + X	Command + X
3	Paste	Ctrl + V	Command + V
4	Delete	Del	Del
5	Duplicate	Ctrl + Shift + Alt + D	Command + Shift + Option +D
6	Deselect All	Ctrl + Shift + A	Command + Shift + A
7	Undo	Ctrl + Z	Command + Z
8	Redo	Ctrl + Shift + Z	Command + Shift + Z
9	New	Ctrl + N	Command + N
10	Open	Ctrl + O	Command + O
11	Save	Ctrl + S	Command + S
12	Save As	Ctrl + Shift + S	Command + Shift+ S
13	Export	Ctrl + E	Command + E

2. Shortcuts for tools:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
14	Selection tool	V	V
15	Direct selection tool	A	A
16	Rectangle	R	R
17	Ellipse	E	E
18	Line	L	L
19	Pen	P	P
20	Type tool	T	T
21	Rectangle tool	M	M
22	Ellipse tool	L	L
23	Paintbrush tool	B	B
24	Pencil tool	N	N
25	Rotate tool	R	R
26	Mesh tool	U	U
27	Gradient tool	G	G
28	Eyedropper tool	I	I
29	Blend tool	W	W
30	Zoom Tool	Z	Z
31	Warp tool	Shift+R	Shift+R
32	Width tool	Shift+W	Shift+W
33	Magic wind tool	Y	Y
34	Lasso tool	Q	Q
35	Blob brush tool	Shift+B	Shift+B

3. Shortcuts for objects:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
36	Group	Ctrl + G	Command + G
37	Ungroup	Ctrl + Shift + G	Command + Shift + G
38	Transform again	Ctrl+Alt+4	Ctrl+Alt+4
39	Center to Content	Ctrl + Shift + E	Command + Shift + E
40	Text Frame Options	Ctrl+B	Ctrl+B

4. Shortcuts for layout menu:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
41	Go to Page	Ctrl+J	Command + J
42	Add Page	Ctrl + Shift + P	Command + Shift + P

5. Shortcuts to arrange layers:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
43	Bring to Front	Ctrl+ Shift + [	Command +Shift + [
44	Send to Back	Ctrl + Shift + ]	Command + Shift + ]

6. View menu keyboard shortcuts:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
44	Smart Guides	Ctrl + U	Command + U
45	Text Threads	Ctrl+ Alt + Y	Command + Alt + Y
46	Intersect	Ctrl + Alt + I	Command + Option + I
47	Exclude Overlap	Ctrl + Alt + X	Command + Alt + X
48	Convert to Path	Ctrl+8	Ctrl+8

7. Shortcuts for type menu:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
49	Tabs	Shift + Ctrl + T	Shift + Command + T
50	Glyphs	Shift + Alt + F11	Shift + Option + F11

8. Shortcuts for zoom

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
51	Zoom (Drag mouse to Zoom)	Ctrl + Spacebar	Command + Spacebar
52	Zoom in/Zoom out	Ctrl++/Ctrl+-	Command++/Command + –
53	Pan in View	Spacebar + Drag	Spacebar + Drag
54	Fit Page in view	Ctrl + 0	Command + 0
55	Fit Spread in View	Command + Option + 0	Command + Option + 0

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