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

This shortcut is used by 153 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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General (18)

Windows 11 - Move back through tabs

Brave (Windows) - Jump to the previous open tab

Google Chrome - Jump to the previous open tab

Stremio - Go to previous tab

Firefox - Previous tab

Mozilla Thunderbird - Previous tab

Mozilla Thunderbird - Move to previous main UI element

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

Windows XP - Move backward through the tabs

Microsoft Edge (Chromium) - Switch to the previous tab

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Binance 1.9.1 (Desktop app) - Previous tab

Vivaldi - Tab cycler back

Windows 10 Maps - Go to previous tab

Maxthon - Switch tabs in the reverse order

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Deepin Linux - Previous workspace

Microsoft Edge (legacy) - Switch to the previous 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

Text editing (21)

PDF-XChange Editor - Previous document

Microsoft OneNote - Go to the previous section

LibreOffice Writer - Use previous suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

Xodo - Previous document

TeXstudio 4.7.2 - Previous document

OnlyOffice Document Editor - Switch to the previous tab

FocusWriter - Go to previous document

Brackets - Previous Document

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

CudaText 1.88.3 - Switch to previous tab

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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)

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

WPS Writer - Activate previous sub window

RJ TextEd 16.31 - Select the previous editor tab

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

Imaging (15)

AutoCAD - Switch to previous drawing

Clip Studio Paint Pro - Canvas: Previous canvas

QGIS 3.10 - Toggle Map Only

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

Paint Tool SAI - Select Previous View

Paint Tool SAI - Select previous view

Paint.NET - Previous image

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Adobe Photoshop CC - Switch to previous document

Inkscape - Previous document window

Capture One 20 - Previous tool

DesignSpark Mechanical 5.0 - Display previous Design window

Modo 12.1 - Layout switcher, organized by most recent

System tools (13)

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

WezTerm - Activate tab relative -1

SECURECRT 8.7 - Navigate backwards between tabs

Xshell 8 - [Tab] Move to previous session

ZOC 7.23 - View > Previous Tab

Everything - Cycle between open windows

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

CopyQ 3.8 - Item list navigation

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

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

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

Windows Terminal 1.7 - Previous tab

Developer tools (31)

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

Visual Studio Code (Mac) - Navigate editor group history

Spyder 4.1.5 - Go to previous file

RSLogix 5000 - Go to previous open window

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

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

HeidiSQL - Go back to previous tab

Visual Studio Code (Linux) - Navigate editor group history

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Visual Studio Code (Linux) - Open previous

Delphi - Switch to the previous open file in the editor

Code::Blocks 17.12 - Activate previous open file

Sublime Text 4 - Previous view in stack

Lazarus IDE V3.6 - Go to prior editor

SQLyog - Switch to Previous Connection

PyScripter 5.1 - Previous Editor

Adobe Dreamweaver 20.2 (Windows) - Previous Document

SlickEdit 2023 - Previous window

WinDev 25 - Select the previous tab

Qt Creator - Next open document in history

AWS Cloud9 IDE (Windows) - Previous Tab

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

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

PICO-8 (Windows) - Switch to previous tab

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

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

FBIde - Select previous tab

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

CudaText 1.218.0 (10.2024) - Switch tab to previous

Web applications (1)

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

File manager (4)

Q-Dir - Previous tab

Xyplorer - Cycle thru tabs (backward)

WinSCP - Cycle opened sessions

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

Games - PC (3)

The Sims 4 - Change camera type

Diablo IV (PC) - Previous chat tab

Open Rails 0.6.2 - Release dispatcher

Telegram - Move to previous chat

Slack - Switch to previous team

Signal (desktop) - Previous conversation

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

Security (3)

KeepassXC 2.6.4 - Select previous database tab

Comodo IceDragon - Previous Tab

1Password - Select the previous category in the sidebar.

Productivity (67)

REAPER - Docker: Activate next tab

Studio One 5.4 - Previous Perspective

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

WPS Office - Goes to previous worksheet tab

Virtual DJ 2018 - Sideview - 1

MindManager 21 - View previous map

Cmder 1.3.16 - Previous tab (may be disabled)

Guitar Pro 8 (Windows) - Previous tab

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

Sumatra PDF - Go to previous tab

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Samsung DeX (2023) - Jump to the previous tab

Vegas Pro 18 - Show previous window

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

WPS Spreadsheets - Go to previous worksheet tab

Edius Pro 9 - Switch to Previous Sequence

LMMS 1.2.2 - Switch to previous window

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

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

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

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

MuseScore 3 - Previous score

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

QTranslate 6.7.3 - Switch to the previous translation service

Thinkorswim - Previous tab

Bitwig Studio 4.2 - Select Previous Project

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

Era-Ignite - Move backward through tabs on screen

Bluebeam Revu - Previous tab

Tableau - Cycle backward through open worksheets

FineReader 15 - Previous Pane

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

Zammad - Show previous tab

Google Sheets (Android) - Move to previous sheet

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

Microsoft Sticky Notes - Previous window

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.

Engagement CS - Move to previous tabbed page

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

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

ConnectWise 2018.6 - Switch tabs

ConnectWise 2018.6 - Switch tabs

PerfectTablePlan v6.2 - Previous tab

Banana Accounting (Windows) - Previous window

CintaNotes 3.13 - Outdent selected paragraphs.

MuseScore 3 (macOS) - Previous score

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

Scientific (8)

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

Archicad 24 - Previous tab

FreeCAD 0.18 - Previous tab

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.

CircuitStudio - Open previous tab window

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Table of contents

General (18)
Text editing (21)
Imaging (15)
System tools (13)
Developer tools (31)
Web applications (1)
File manager (4)
Games - PC (3)
Social & Messaging (4)
Security (3)
Productivity (67)
Scientific (8)

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