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Overleaf keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 1/14/2020 on https://defkey.com/overleaf-shortcuts

Overleaf is an online collaborative text editing application. It can work
offline and sync your files via Dropbox and GitHub.

Overleaf has 54 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



Frequently used
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Ctrl + F                Find and replace
Ctrl + Enter            Compile the project
Ctrl + Z                Undo
Ctrl + Y                Redo
Ctrl + Home             Go to first line of the current file
Ctrl + End              Go to last line of the current file
Ctrl + L                Go to specific line...
Ctrl + /                Toggle commenting for selected lines
Ctrl + D                Delete current line
Ctrl + A                Select all
Tab                     Indent section
Shift + Tab             Unindent section
Ctrl + U                Change selected text to upper case
Ctrl + Shift + U        Change selected text to lower case
Ctrl + B                Bold
Ctrl + I                Italics
Ctrl + Space            Open autocomplete menu, inside of \cite{...} search the bibliography


General
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Ctrl + .                Trigger compilation
Ctrl + S                Trigger compilation
Ctrl + Enter            Trigger compilation
Alt + E                 Next error / warning
Alt + Shift + E         Previous error / warning
Ctrl + /                Toggle % comment on selected line(s)
Ctrl + D                Delete current line
Ctrl + Space            Open autocomplete menu, inside of \cite{...} search the bibliography
Ctrl + [                Indent less
Shift + Tab             Indent less
Ctrl + ]                Indent more
Tab                     (at line start) Indent more
Ctrl + U                Change selected text to upper case
Ctrl + Shift + U        Change selected text to lower case
Ctrl + B                Bold
Ctrl + I                Italics
Ctrl + X                Cut selected text
Ctrl + C                Copy selected text
Ctrl + V                Paste copied text
Ctrl + Z                Undo
Ctrl + Shift + Z        Redo
Ctrl + Y                Redo
Ctrl + P                Go to nearest matching start / close paranthesis, brace or bracket
Alt + Left arrow        Go to line start
Alt + Right arrow       Go to line end
Ctrl + Home             Go to document start
Ctrl + End              Go to document end
Ctrl + L                Go to line number...
Ctrl + F                Find and replace
Ctrl + G                (or just Enter again) Find next
Ctrl + Shift + G        Find previous
Ctrl + A                Select all
Ctrl + Left click       Multiple cursors
Alt + Left click + Move the mouse Rectangular selection
Ctrl + J                Toggle review panel
Ctrl + Shift + A        Toggle tracking changes
Ctrl + Shift + C        Add comment in review panel

Source: Overleaf (1, 2)


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