55 Adobe XD Keyboard Shortcuts To Work Effectively

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 XD keyboard 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 XD workflow.

You may use XD daily for graphic Ul, UX design, or something else, or sometimes for basic graphic designing. After utilizing these 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 XD keyboard shortcuts you will find very easily interact with your workflow.

By pressing a few keys as Adobe XD keyboard 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 XD keyboard shortcuts.

55 Adobe XD keyboard shortcuts

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 + D	Command + 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
14	Import	Ctrl + Shift + I	Command + Shift + I

Shortcuts for tools:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
15	Select	V	V
16	Rectangle	R	R
17	Ellipse	E	E
18	Line	L	L
19	Pen	P	P
20	Text	T	T
21	Artboard	A	A
22	Zoom Tool	Z	Z
23	Zoom to Selection	Ctrl+3	Command + 3

Shortcuts for objects:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
24	Group	Ctrl + G	Command + G
25	Ungroup	Ctrl + Shift + G	Command + Shift + G
26	Lock	Ctrl + L	Command + L
27	Mask with Shape	Ctrl + Shift + M	Command +Shift + M
28	Make Repeat Grid	Ctrl + R	Command + R

Shortcuts for Path/pen:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
29	Open Path/Pen panel	P	P
30	Convert Point	Double Click	Double Click
31	Asymmetric Control Point	Alt	Option
32	Snap Control Point Angle	Shift	Shift
33	Snap Anchor Point Angle	Shift	Shift

Shortcuts to arrange layers:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
34	Bring Forward	Ctrl+ ]	Command + ]
35	Send Backward	Ctrl+[	Ctrl+[
36	Bring to Front	Ctrl+ Shift + ]	Command +Shift + ]
37	Send to Back	Ctrl + Shift + [	Command + Shift + [

To align items:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
38	Align Left	Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow	Command + Shift + Left Arrow
39	Align Right	Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow	Command +Shift + Right Arrow
40	Horizontally align Center	Shift+C	Shift+C
41	Top	Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow	Command + Shift + Up Arrow
42	Vertically align Center	Shift +M	Shift+M
43	Align Bottom	Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow	Command + Shift + Down Arrow

Shortcuts for path:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
44	Add	Ctrl + Alt + U	Command + Alt + U
45	Subtract	Ctrl+Alt+S	Command + Alt + S
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

Shortcuts for text:

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
49	Bold	Ctrl + B	Command + B
50	Italic	Ctrl+I	Ctrl+I

Shortcuts for Operations menu

Number	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
51	Copy Paste Selected Object	Alt+Drag	Alt+Drag
52	Edit Text	Enter	Enter
53	Constrain Rotate	Shift (15°) + Rotate with left key of mouse	Shift (15°) + Rotate with left key of mouse
54	Line Constrain Rotate	Shift (45°) + Rotate with left key of mouse	Shift (45°) + Rotate with left key of mouse
55	Constrain From Center	Alt+Shift	Alt+Shift