Must-Try These 65 Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts

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 Illustrator 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 Illustrator workflow.

You may use Illustrator daily for graphic designing 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 Illustrator shortcuts you will find it very easy.

By pressing a few keys as Adobe Illustrator 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 Illustrator shortcuts.

Adobe Illustrator shortcuts

Basic Shortcuts

1. Zoom In and Zoom out

Z (for Windows and Mac both)

Or

Alt + Mouse Wheel (for windows)

Option + Mouse Wheel (For Mac)

2. To save work in .ai

Control + S (for Windows)

Command + S (for Mac)

3. To save as

Control + Alt + S (for Windows)

Command + Option + S (for Mac)

4. To create new .ai file

Control + N (for Windows)

Command + N (for Mac)

5. To create new canvas

Control + N (for Windows)

Command + N (for Mac)

6. To open existing .ai file or Open file

Control + O (for Windows)

Command + O (for Mac)

7. To open PNG or Jpg file in your .ai file

Control + O (for Windows)

Command + O (for Mac)

8. Undo

Control + Z (for Windows)

Command + Z (for Mac)

9. Redo

Control+ Shift + Z (for Windows)

Command + Shift + Z (for Mac)

10. Copy

Control + C (for Windows)

Command + C (for Mac)

11. Cut

Control + X (for Windows)

Command + X (for Mac)

12. Paste

Control + V (for Windows)

Command + V (for Mac)

13. Paste in front

Ctrl + F (for Windows)

Command + F (for Mac)

14. Paste at back

Ctrl + B (for Windows)

Command + B (for Mac)

15. Paste on all artboards

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + B (for Windows)

Option + Shift + Command + B (for Mac)

16. To check spelling

Ctrl + I  (for Windows)

Command + I (for Mac)

17. To check spelling

Shift + Ctrl + K (for Windows)

Shift + Command + K (for Mac)

18. Open the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box

Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K (for Windows)

Option + Shift + Command + K (for Mac)

Selecting and moving || Shortcuts for layers:

19. To move shape

Spacebar+Drag (for Windows and Mac both)

20. To access selecting or direction selection tool

CTRL or V (for Windows)

Command or V (for Mac)

21. To make copy (duplicate) while dragging

Alt (for Windows)

Opion (for Mac)

22. To move layers in a perfectly horizontal or vertical line

Shift (for Windows)

Shift (for Mac)

23. To move selected layer in moderate level

Any arrow key – up, down, left, right (for Windows or Mac)

24. To move selected layer in 10 points

Any arrow key – up, down, left, right (for Windows or Mac)

25. To send selected layer forward

Ctrl + [ (for WIndows)

Command + ] (for Mac)

26. To send selected layer backword

Ctrl + [ (for WIndows)

Command + ] (for Mac)

Shortcuts for tools

	Shortcuts	Windows	macOS
27	For Artboard tool	Shift + O	Shift + O
28	To select the selection tool	V	V
29	Direct Selection tool	A	A
30	Magic wand tool	Y	Y
31	For lasso tool	Q	Q
32	To select the pen tool	P	P
33	For curvature tool	Shift + ~	Shift + ~
34	To access Blob Brush tool	Shift + B	Shift + B
35	To Add Anchor Point tool	+ (plus)	+ (plus)
36	To delete Anchor Point tool	– (minus)	– (minus)
37	For Switch to Anchor Point tool	Shift + C	Shift + C
38	Access Type tool	T	T
39	To access the Touch Type tool	Shift + T	Shift + T
40	For Line Segment tool	\ (backslash)	\ (backslash)
41	For Rectangle tool	M	M
42	For Ellipse tool	L	L
43	Select Paintbrush tool	B	B
44	Selection of Pencil tool	N	N
45	Select Shaper tool	Shift + N	Shift + N
46	Access Rotate tool	R	R
47	For Reflect tool	O	O
48	To select the Scale tool	S	S
49	To access Warp tool	Shift + R	Shift + R
50	Access Width Tool	Shift+W	Shift+W
51	To access Free Transform tool	E	E
52	Shape Builder Tool	Shift+M	Shift+M
53	Perspective Grid Tool	Shift+P	Shift+P
54	Perspective Selection Tool	Shift+V	Shift+V
55	Access Symbol Sprayer tool	Shift + S	Shift + S
56	Shortcut for Column Graph tool	J	J
57	To access Mesh tool	U	U
58	Use Gradient tool	G	G
59	To use Eyedropper tool	I	I
60	Shortcut for Blend tool	W	W
61	Access Live Paint Bucket tool	K	K
62	To access Slice tool	Shift + K	Shift + K
63	Shortcut to use Eraser tool	Shift + E	Shift + E
64	For Scissors tool	C	C
65	Access Zoom tool	Z	Z

So these are all useful Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts.

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