What is Ctrl + ↑ Shift + Tab keyboard shortcut for?

This shortcut is used by 170 programs in our database.

General description for this shortcut: In tabbed interfaces, it may be used to navigate between tabs. This shortcut moves you backward between tabs.

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Developer tools (32)

HeidiSQL - Go back to previous tab

Visual Studio Code (Windows) - Navigate editor group history

Visual Studio Code (Windows) - Open previous

Notepad++ - Previous document (also shows list of open files). Can be disabled - see above

Spyder 4.1.5 - Go to previous file

Lazarus IDE V3.6 - Go to prior editor

RSLogix 5000 - Go to previous open window

Visual Studio Code (Mac) - Navigate editor group history

Atom (Windows) - pane:show-previous-recently-used-item

Sublime Text 4 - Previous view in stack

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Aqua Data Studio 23.2 (Emacs layout, Windows/Linux/Java) - Window: Show Previous Tab

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - Cycle through the previous MDI child windows

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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - Move to the previous document in the editor or designer

Visual Studio Code (Linux) - Navigate editor group history

Visual Studio Code (Linux) - Open previous

Delphi - Switch to the previous open file in the editor

Qt Creator - Next open document in history

AWS Cloud9 IDE (Windows) - Previous Tab

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (All shortcuts) - Window.PreviousDocumentWindowNav

Windows PowerShell ISE - Tab (to previous script). Note: Tab to previous script works when you have only one Windows PowerShell tab open, or if you have more than one Windows PowerShell tab open, and the focus is in the Script Pane.

Windows PowerShell ISE - Previous PowerShell tab. This shortcut works only when no files are open on any Windows PowerShell tab

SQLyog - Switch to Previous Connection

FBIde - Select previous tab

Code::Blocks 17.12 - Activate previous open file

WinDev 25 - Select the previous tab

Adobe Dreamweaver 20.2 (Windows) - Previous Document

SlickEdit 2023 - Previous window

PICO-8 (Windows) - Switch to previous tab

CudaText 1.218.0 (10.2024) - Switch tab to previous

Lite XL 2.1.7 - Switch to previous tab

LibreOffice Base - In point edit mode, jumps to previous handle

PyScripter 5.1 - Previous Editor

File manager (6)

One Commander 3 - Previous Tab

Q-Dir - Previous tab

Mp3tag - Quick backward navigation between sub-windows (Tag Panel, Filter, File View)

Xyplorer - Cycle thru tabs (backward)

Files (files.community) - Go to the previous tab

WinSCP - Cycle opened sessions

Games - PC (3)

The Sims 4 - Change camera type

Diablo IV (PC) - Previous chat tab

Open Rails 0.6.2 - Release dispatcher

General (19)

Windows 11 - Move back through tabs

Opera - Cycle to previous tab (defaults to recently used order)

Brave (Windows) - Jump to the previous open tab

Stremio - Go to previous tab

Godot - Previous Scene Tab

Vivaldi - Tab cycler back

Mozilla Thunderbird - Previous tab

Mozilla Thunderbird - Move to previous main UI element

Maxthon - Switch tabs in the reverse order

Firefox - Previous tab

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Microsoft Edge (legacy) - Switch to the previous tab

Windows 10 Maps - Go to previous tab

Google Chrome - Jump to the previous open tab

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 - Move back through items on a webpage (only works if tabbed browsing is turned off)

VMWare Workstation Pro - (Windows hosts only) Switch among tabs

Deepin Linux - Previous workspace

Microsoft Edge (Chromium) - Switch to the previous tab

Binance 1.9.1 (Desktop app) - Previous tab

Windows XP - Move backward through the tabs

Imaging (16)

QGIS 3.10 - Toggle Map Only

Clip Studio Paint Pro - Canvas: Previous canvas

AutoCAD - Switch to previous drawing

Paint Tool SAI - Select Previous View

Paint Tool SAI - Select previous view

Capture One 20 - Previous tool

Paint.NET - Previous image

DesignSpark Mechanical 5.0 - Display previous Design window

Balsamiq Wireframes - Previous wireframe

Adobe Photoshop CC - Switch to previous document

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Inkscape - Previous document window

Modo 12.1 - Layout switcher, organized by most recent

Blender 3.4.1 - Cycle space context

Blender 3.4.1 - Snapping

Blender 3.4.1 - Context enum menu

Blender 3.4.1 - Context enum menu

Productivity (78)

Microsoft Excel 2019 - Switches to the previous tab in a dialog box

Microsoft Access 2019 - Switch to the next or previous tab in a dialog box

Microsoft Access 2019 - Toggle backward between tabs when a property is selected

Microsoft Access 2019 - Exit the subdatasheet and move to the last field of the previous record in the datasheet

Microsoft Access 2019 - Exit the subform and move to the previous field in the main form or previous record

MindManager 21 - View previous map

Studio One 5.4 - Previous Perspective

Microsoft Visio (2024) - Cycle the focus through open drawings in reverse order.

Microsoft Visio (2024) - Switch to the previous tab in a dialog box.

Virtual DJ 2018 - Sideview - 1

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REAPER - Docker: Activate next tab

WPS Office - Goes to previous worksheet tab

Sumatra PDF - Go to previous tab

Bluebeam Revu - Previous tab

Cmder 1.3.16 - Previous tab (may be disabled)

ConnectWise 2018.6 - Switch tabs

ConnectWise 2018.6 - Switch tabs

LMMS 1.2.2 - Switch to previous window

Samsung DeX (2023) - Jump to the previous tab

UltraTax CS 2023 - Within current folder, moves to the first field of the prior input screen in the folder

Edius Pro 9 - Switch to Previous Sequence

TheBrain 14 - Previous Brain Tab

Outlook 2019 and Outlook 2016 - Move between the Folder pane, the main Outlook window, the Reading pane, and the To-Do bar

Google Sheets (Android) - Move to previous sheet

LibreOffice - Select the previous point of the drawing object (Point Selection mode)

Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (Creating presentations) - Switch between the Thumbnail pane and the Outline View pane

Microsoft Sticky Notes - Previous window

Tableau - Cycle backward through open worksheets

Oracle RightNow - Move forward to next content pane tab in history

Browser tab management - Go to previous tab

Browser tab management - Go to previous tab

Browser tab management - Go to previous tab

Notezilla - Go to previous note

CintaNotes 3.13 - Switch view to previous section.

QTranslate 6.7.3 - Switch to the previous translation service

Era-Ignite - Move backward through tabs on screen

Engagement CS - Move to previous tabbed page

Workpapers CS - Move to the previous tab within a tabbed view

CCH Axcess Tax - Switch to the previous tab in a window.

Zotero 5.0 (Windows) - Move through Info/Notes/Tags/Related Tabs

Thinkorswim - Previous tab

Vegas Pro 18 - Show previous window

FineReader 15 - Previous Pane

Avid Pro Tools 2021.6 - Extend selection to previous clip-boundary

Bitwig Studio 4.2 - Select Previous Project

PerfectTablePlan v6.2 - Previous tab

Guitar Pro 8 (Windows) - Previous tab

Studio Pro 10 - Switch between tabs in a tabbed dialog box

WPS Spreadsheets - Go to previous worksheet tab

Banana Accounting (Windows) - Previous window

OnlyOffice Spreadsheet Editor - Switch to the previous tab

OnlyOffice Presentation Editor - Switch to the previous tab

Double Commander 1.1.20 - Goto previous tab in the active panel

Double Commander 1.1.20 - Switch to Previous Page

AnyType 0.44 - Switch to the next/previous space

Flexcil (Android) - Move to the previous document tab

Clarity Human Services (Windows) - Switch to the tab on the left

Clarity Human Services (Mac) - Switch to the tab on the left

CintaNotes 3.13 - Outdent selected paragraphs.

MuseScore 3 - Previous score

MuseScore 3 (macOS) - Previous score

Adobe InDesign 2020 (Windows) - (Presentation Mode) Previous window

Zammad - Show previous tab

Infor Smart Office - Switch to the previous application in the taskbar

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Beyond Compare 5 - Select previous tab

Scientific (10)

FreeCAD 0.18 - Previous tab

Altium Designer - Cycle backward to the previous open tabbed document, making it the active document in the design workspace

Maple - Move backward through multiple open worksheet and document tabs in a Maple window

LabView - Cycles the opposite direction through LabVIEW windows

Solidworks 2019 - Temporarily displays all hidden components as transparent and you can select which components to show.

Solidworks 2019 - To show one or more components, move the pointer to the graphics area, and press and hold Ctrl + Shift + Tab. All hidden components are temporarily displayed as transparent. Click a hidden component to change it to shown.

Archicad 24 - Previous tab

CircuitStudio - Open previous tab window

OriginLab Origin (2024) - Navigate between different windows in the same folder, including the floating windows.

OriginLab Origin (2024) - The order of toggling windows is inverse of Ctrl + Tab

Security (3)

KeepassXC 2.6.4 - Select previous database tab

Comodo IceDragon - Previous Tab

1Password - Select the previous category in the sidebar.

Telegram - Move to previous chat

Zoom (Windows) - Move to the previous tab (left)

Slack - Switch to previous team

Signal (desktop) - Previous conversation

System tools (15)

MobaXterm 20.6 - Reverse cycle

Terminator - Move to previous terminal within the same tab. If cycle_term_tab is False, cycle within the same tab will be disabled

Yakuake (KDE) - Previous session

Yakuake (KDE) - Previous session

WezTerm - Activate tab relative -1

SECURECRT 8.7 - Navigate backwards between tabs

Mintty 3.4.0 - Previous visible window (as sorted by creation time)

Everything - Cycle between open windows

Xshell 8 - [Tab] Move to previous session

VMware Workstation 5.0 - Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed. VMware Workstation must be the active application.

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CopyQ 3.8 - Item list navigation

Windows Terminal 1.7 - Previous tab

ConEmu (190623 alpha) - Tabs switching. In lazy switching mode (tab bar must be visible) window will not be really switched, until Ctrl is released. When lazy tab switching was started in recent mode, You may use Left and Right keys to select tabs directly. Note, tabs must be shown in the ConEmu window

ConEmu (190623 alpha) - Previous tab (may be disabled)

ZOC 7.23 - View > Previous Tab

Text editing (22)

PDF-XChange Editor - Previous document

Kofax Power PDF - Move to the previous opened document in tabbed view.

Microsoft OneNote - Go to the previous section

Zim - Focus to the previous interface element (gtk default)

WPS Writer - Activate previous sub window

TeXstudio 4.7.2 - Previous document

Notepad2 - Force unindentation of selected block

Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix) - Move focus to the previous panel in the Task pane

Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix) - Move to previous open document tab (when multiple documents are open in same window)

FocusWriter - Go to previous document

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LibreOffice Writer - Use previous suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

Brackets - Previous Document

Xodo - Previous document

Microsoft FrontPage - Switch between open Web pages in reverse order.

Microsoft FrontPage - When a toolbar is selected, select the next or previous toolbar.

Microsoft FrontPage - Switch to the previous tab in a dialog box.

WikidPad (Windows) - Switch between tabbed pages

Zettlr (Windows) - Select the previous tab

OnlyOffice Document Editor - Switch to the previous tab

Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix) - Move to previous pane

CudaText 1.88.3 - Switch to previous tab

RJ TextEd 16.31 - Select the previous editor tab

Web applications (1)

Chromebook and Chrome OS - Go to the previous tab in the window

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Table of contents

Developer tools (32)
File manager (6)
Games - PC (3)
General (19)
Imaging (16)
Productivity (78)
Scientific (10)
Security (3)
Social & Messaging (4)
System tools (15)
Text editing (22)
Web applications (1)

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