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General description for this shortcut: Underlines text in rich text editing programs.

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General (31)

Alacritty 0.9.0 - Scroll half page up

Alacritty 0.9.0 - Search clear

Opera - Clear all

Opera - Toggle text-style underline

Opera - Go to previous unread message

Audacity - Mute All Tracks

Arch Linux - Cut everything from line start to cursor

Brave (Windows) - Display non-editable HTML source code for the current page

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Clear the current line in terminal

Manjaro Linux - Cut everything from line start to cursor

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Google Chrome - Display non-editable HTML source code for the current page

Mozilla Thunderbird - View message source

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Ubuntu - Underline the selected text

Firefox - Page source

E-Sword - Underline Editors only

uTorrent - Add new torrent from URL

Microsoft Edge (Chromium) - View source

Microsoft Photos App - Remove selected items from album

Roll20 - Add selected object(s) to turn tracker

VideoProc Vlogger (Windows) - Check for updates

Ardour - All enclosed by edit range

Vivaldi - View page source

Extended Mapedit - Set selected visibility for all sectors

Lynx 2.8.9 - Erase input line

Codesys V3 - Update parameters

Codesys V3 - Lowercase

Microsoft Edge (legacy) - View source

GoldWave - AutoTrims the sound. Removes silences within the ends of the selection.

Quicken 2018 - Go to the Portfolio

Feedreader - Refresh article list

MediaShout 7 - Toggle Underline on/off for selected Text

Text editing (50)

Zathura 0.4.5 - Scroll a half page left, down, up or right

PDF-XChange Editor - Underline

Microsoft Word 2019 - Apply an underline

Sublime Text - Soft undo; jumps to your last change before undoing change when repeated

Microsoft OneNote - Apply underline to or remove it from the selected text

Nuance Power PDF - Display / hide gridlines

Overleaf - Change selected text to upper case

Overleaf - Change selected text to upper case

Micro 2.0.13 (text editor) - Toggle macro

Nano - Uncut from the cut buffer into the current line

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CherryTree 0.38.8 - Toggle Underline Property of the Selected Text

Brackets - Undo selection

Brackets - To Upper Case

Brackets - Undo last selection change

CudaText 1.88.3 - Toggle word-wrap mode (off / window / margin)

FocusWriter - Underline

Most used text editing - Underline

Texmaker 5.0.4 - Uncomment

Microsoft FrontPage - Apply an underline.

TeXstudio 4.7.2 - Redo

TeXstudio 4.7.2 - Uncomment

Notepad2 - Make lowercase

gedit - Convert the selected text to upper case

Tiptap (Windows) - Underline

Wordpad - Underline selected text

Zim - Make selected text underline (renders highlighted)

Ace Editor - Change to upper case

Scrivener 1.9.9 - Underlined

Workflowy - Underline

AbiWord - Text formatting > Underline

WriteMonkey - Soft undo

ZenWriter 2 - Underline

OneNote for the web - Underline

Metapad - Transparent mode

Typora 0.9.81 - Underline

TiddlyWiki - Apply underline formatting to selection

Google Docs (PC) - Underline

WPS Writer - Underline

Helix 23.10 - Move half page up

Helix 23.10 - Move half page up

Helix 23.10 - Scroll up

Helix 23.10 - Delete to start of line

Helix 23.10 - Page up

Helix 23.10 - Delete to start of line

KompoZer - Text style Underline

TextRoom - Underline

Dropbox Paper - Underline

Tomboy 0.23 - Underline

Notepad3 (v5.21) - Selection in Lowercase.

Word Web App - Underline

Imaging (60)

Adobe After Effects 2021 - Set Quality to Best, Draft, or Wireframe for selected layers

Blender - Save User Settings

Krita 4.2.2 - HSV Adjustment…

Krita 4.2.2 - Underline

Adobe Illustrator - Show/ hide smart guides

Clip Studio Paint Pro - Tonal correction: Hue/Saturation/Luminosity

PowerDirector 17 - Adjust system volume

CorelDRAW 2020 - Break a group into individual objects or groups.

CorelDRAW 2020 - Full Screen

CorelDRAW 2020 - Underline the text

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CorelDRAW 2020 - Underline the text

Zbrush 2023.1 - Reload ZScript

Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows) - Underline

Photopea 5.4 - Hue/Saturation

Siemens NX - Execute > NX Open

PureRef - Settings

Autodesk 3ds Max 2021 - Group Attach

Autodesk 3ds Max 2021 - Refresh View

Harmony 20 - Preferences

MediBang Paint Pro 27.0 - Shade

IrfanView - Custom rotation dialog

Blender 3.4.1 - Toggle style

Microsoft Paint - Underline selected text

Inkscape - Ungroup selected group(s)

Inkscape - toggle Unicode entry

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2018 - Ungroup

Moho 13 - Show tracing image

Paint Tool SAI - Hue and saturation

Adobe Animate CC (Windows) - Ungroup

Paint 3D - Underline selected text

LightWave 3D - Unweld polygons

LightWave 3D - UnParent bone

OpenToonz 1.4 - Preferences…

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 (Windows) - Preferences

Marmoset Toolbag 4 - Show guides

Aseprite 1.2.27 (Windows) - Hue / Saturation

Daz Studio 4.15 - Lock docking / Undocking

Corel Painter - Ungroup

Corel Painter - Ungroup

Nuke - Enable or disable previewing output on an external broadcast video monitor

Autodesk Mudbox 2022 - Show Selected

Adobe Lightroom Classic - Auto tone

Affinity Photo - Underline

Affinity Photo - HSL (Adjustment)

DesignSpark Mechanical 5.0 - Underline text

Penpot (Windows) - Underline

Simplify3D - Customize support structures

Pinnacle Studio 22 - Toggle underline

Global Mapper 21 - UNLOAD All Loaded Data Files

MagicaVoxel - Display ground

Tahoma2D 1.1 - Preferences…

ArtWeaver 7 Plus - Adjustments > Hue/Saturation…

Krita 3.0 - HSV/HSL adjust

LDView - Right side up

Enterprise Architect 14 - Locate diagrams in which the element is used.

InVision Studio 1.28.2 - Underline

vecta.io - Underline

Aspire 10 - Ungroup the selected objects to the group's layer, sub-groups remain grouped.

Tribble LayOut 22.0 - Underline

Mylio Photos (Windows) - AutoEnhance

System tools (14)

Cisco Packet Tracer - Zoom Out of the workspace

zsh - Delete the current line

Termux - Delete from cursor to the beginning of line

Everything - Toggle match path

Cisco IOS - Delete all characters from the cursor to the beginning of the command line

Bash (Unix shell) - Cut the part of the line before the cursor and add it to the clipboard

Revo Uninstaller Pro 5.1.1 - Uninstall

Revo Uninstaller Pro 5.1.1 - Uninstall

Revo Uninstaller Pro 5.1.1 - Uninstall

Revo Uninstaller Pro 5.1.1 - Uninstall

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Revo Uninstaller Pro 5.1.1 - Uninstall

SyncBack - Unselect all

HDDB - View > Statusbar

lnav (The Log File Navigator) 0.11.2 - Up by half a page

Developer tools (57)

Visual Studio Code (Windows) - Undo last cursor operation

Notepad++ - Convert to lower case

Arduino IDE - Upload sketch

Roblox Studio - Ungroup

Spyder 4.1.5 - Transform to lowercase

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - Make the selected text lower case

Sublime Text 4 - Soft undo

STM32CubeMX - Export pinout without Alternate functions

IDA Pro 7.4 - Next unexplored

CodeMirror - Undo the last change to the selection, or if there are no selection-only changes at the top of the history, undo the last change

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Visual Studio Code (Linux) - Undo last cursor operation

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (All shortcuts) - Format.Underline

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (All shortcuts) - Edit.MakeLowercase

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (All shortcuts) - Image.UseSelectionasBrush

Android Studio - Go to super-method/super-class

RStudio - Yank line up to cursor

HeidiSQL - Uppercase block

Git GUI - Unstage from commit

RStudio (Mac) - Yank line up to cursor

WinDev 25 - Show positioning tables

WinDev 25 - Underline selected text

WinDev 25 - Underline the selected field

Team Explorer and Azure DevOps - Underline

GoLand (Windows) - Super method

PythonWin - Convert the selection to lower case

SlickEdit 2023 - Deselect

FileMaker - Preview mode

FileMaker - Select tables with the same source table

Atom (Windows) - This undoes the previous selection, like from Select Same Words

Atom (Windows) - (Source: Find And Replace) find-and-replace:select-undo

Poedit 2.4.2 - Translation needs work

Qt Creator - Select the current block (The second press extends the selection to the parent block. To enable this behavior, select Tools> Options > Text Editor > Behavior > Enable smart selection changing)

jEdit - Select to marker with shortcut key.

SQLyog - Add A New User

Mode SQL Editor (Windows) - Change to upper case

Mode SQL Editor (Windows) - Underline

Adobe Dreamweaver 20.2 (Windows) - Preferences

Tampermonkey Development Environment - Undo selection

Valentina Studio - Make Selection Lower

PICO-8 (Windows) - Kill to start-of-line

Chrome DevTools - Select / de-select the next occurrence of whatever word the cursor is on. Each occurrence is highlighted simultaneously

AWS Cloud9 IDE (Windows) - Open Tree Panel

AWS Cloud9 IDE (Windows) - To Uppercase

Komodo Edit - Make uppercase

IPython Shell - Cut text from beginning of line to cursor

Tig - Half page up

Geany 1.38 - Decrease indent

CoffeeCup HTML Editor - Underline

Git Tower (Windows) - Push HEAD

Looker 6.8 (Windows) - Share

Looker 6.8 (Windows) - Share

Mode SQL Editor (Mac) - Change to upper case

FBIde - Make selected text uppercase

S3 Browser 8.6.7 - Generate web URLs

S3 Browser 8.6.7 - Upload files

GitLab (Windows) - Cursor undo

SigmaStudio 4.7 - Set system sampling rate

Web applications (12)

Yahoo Mail - Underline

Chromebook and Chrome OS - View page source

FastMail - Underline

WordPress - Underline

Wix - Underline

Wix - Underline

Facebook (Chrome) - Go to other messages

Gmail - Underline

Joomla - Toggles underlining of selected text

TinyMCE - Underline

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Google Data Studio - Underline

Sitefinity CMS - Apply underline formatting to selected text

File manager (9)

PuTTY - Clear the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line

Total Commander - Swap left and right view

Midnight Commander (macOS) - Swap panels

Krusader 2.8 (File manager) - Swap panels (do not swap all folder tabs)

Krusader 2.8 (File manager) - Tools → Uppercase

WinSCP - Keep remote directory up to date

FileZilla - Preserve timestamps of transferred files

WhereIsIt? - View user list

Mp3tag - Unselect all

Media player (12)

PotPlayer 1.7 - Open URL

GOM Player - Open URL

Tidal - Check for updates

SMPlayer 19.5.0 - Open URL

Windows Media Player 11 - Specify either a URL or path of a file

KMPlayer - Open URL

foobar2000 - Add location

AIMP - Add URL

Rhythmbox - Enable / Disable Shuffle play

Corel Photo-Paint 2021 - Arrange > Ungroup

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Audacious 4.0.4 (Windows) - Queue manager

iTunes 11 for Windows - Stream audio file at a specific URL to iTunes

Games - PC (20)

Assetto Corsa - Cycle virtual desktops

BeamNG - Toggle UI console

LSPDFR - Stop traffic

Football Manager 2023 - Training (Players/Schedules)

X-Plane 11 - Landing gear up

Jagged Alliance 2 (version 1.13) - Refreshes all character's health and energy (heals them)

Black Desert Online - Toggle Free Cam

Black Desert Online - Screenshot mode

FlightGear - Add 1000 ft. to your altitude (emergency)

StarCraft - (StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the unit panel

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iRacing - Decrease focus depth

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - Toggle UI

Ixion - Toggle user interface

PokerStars - Muck losing hand

Football Manager 2020 - Training (Players / Schedules)

Oxygen Not Included (PC) - Debug Ultra Test Mode

OpenTTD 12.1 - Clear text in input fields

Lode Runner (partial list) - Skip to next level

Ring of Elysium - Turn the microphone off

Fantasy Grounds - Underline

Discord - Toggle channel member list

Cisco Jabber - Underlined

Slack - Upload a file

Zimbra Web Client - Underlined

Gather Town - Toggle quiet mode (events Spaces) or do not disturb mode (remote work Spaces)

Claws Mail - Show message source

Claws Mail - Delete line

mIRC - Underlined

eM Client - Underline selected text

NewsBin Pro - Unlock poster

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Security (5)

KeePass - Underline

Burp Suite - URL-encode key characters

KeepassXC 2.6.4 - Copy URL

Comodo IceDragon - Page Source

KeeWeb 1.12.3 - Copy website

Productivity (123)

Figma - Underline

FL Studio 20 - Quick Chop

Epic - Toggle underline

draw.io - Toggle underline on selected text

Ableton Live 10 - Quantize

Ableton Live 10 - Quantize

LightBurn - Ungroup

Finale 26 - Update layout

Finale 26 - Unlock currently selected systems

Microsoft Excel 2019 - Underline text or remove underline

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Microsoft Excel 2019 - Applies or removes underlining

WPS Office - Applies or removes underlining

Avid Media Composer 2021.9 - New audio track

FL Studio 21 - Quick Chop

Oracle EBS Forms - Update record

Ocenaudio 3.1 - Revert to saved

Edius Pro 9 - Change Time Scale (Undo)

Adobe InDesign 2020 (Windows) - Grids & Guides: Smart Guides

Enscape (Windows) - Change the solar rotation

Google Sheets - Underline

MindManager 21 - Toggle to underline and back

Outlook 2019 and Outlook 2016 - Mark as unread

Outlook 2019 and Outlook 2016 - Underline

Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (Slideshows) - Hide the pointer and navigation button in 15 seconds

Lucidchart - Underline

Excel for the web - Underline

Guitar Pro - Brush upstroke

Diagrams.net - Toggle underline on selected text

Vegas Pro 18 - Clear group without deleting events

Cinema 4D - Show Fitter

Cinema 4D - Show Filter

Confluence - Underline

Zotero 5.0 (Windows) - Underline

Chief Architect X15 - Send to Layout

QuickBooks Desktop - Use the item from the list that you have just opened using Ctrl + L.

Microsoft Sticky Notes - Underlined

Nuendo 10 - Ungroup

Quip - Underline the selected text

Avidemux 2.8.7 - Queue

FineReader 15 - Underline the selected text fragment

FineReader 15 - Underline

Cakewalk by Bandlab - [Media] Move up

Onyx - Update

ProPresenter 7 (Windows) - Underline

Creo View 8 - Unhide all

SharePoint - Apply or remove the underline from the selected text.

Miro - Underline

coda.io (Windows, Mac) - Underline

Pcon Planner 8 - Ungroup selected group

Guitar Pro 8 (Windows) - Brush up

Google Sheets (Android) - Underline

ActivePresenter 7 - Underline

ActivePresenter 7 - Underline

Lacerte - E-file Wizard

Lacerte - Underline selected text

MuseScore 3 - Display full screen

Microsoft PowerApps - Underline command

Tally ERP 9 - Select the Units

Oxygen Light - Bring up Unwrap dialog

WinMerge 2.16.10 - Convert selected text to lower case

Nvidia Omniverse - Open the Sun Study panel

BookStack - Underline

Avid Pro Tools 2021.6 - Strip Silence

Google Docs (Chrome OS) - Underline

memoQ 10.5 - Underline (set a selected part of the text underlined or – if it is already underlined – remove the underline formatting)

LibreOffice - The Underlined attribute is applied to the selected area. If the cursor is positioned in a word, this word is also underlined

LibreOffice - Refreshes the selected theme

Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (Creating presentations) - Apply an underline

SimpleMind - Toggle Underline font effect for selected topics or labels

Articulate Storyline - Underline selected text

Adobe Captivate 2019 - Underline the selected text

SAGE PE Batigest i7 - Underline

Voyager - Insert URL from browser

Voyager - Insert URL from browser

Evernote 10.9.10 - Underline

Cryptee (Windows, Linux) - Underline

ProPresenter (macOS) - Underline

Celtx (Windows) - Underline

Celtx (Windows) - Underline

Celtx (Windows) - Underline

Celtx (Windows) - Underline

Viz Artist 4.4 - Copy the UUID of the item to the clipboard

TallyPrime - Display the last hidden line (If multiple lines were hidden, pressing this shortcut repeatedly will restore the last hidden line first and follow the sequence)

Google Docs (Android) - Underline

PerfectTablePlan v6.2 - Unassign guest

Zammad - Format as underlined

VCarve Pro 10 - Ungroup the selected objects to the group's layer, sub-groups remain grouped.

Google Slides (Android) - Underline

WPS Spreadsheets - Apply or remove underlining

Evernote for Windows (legacy) - Underline

The Bat! - Mark as unread

The Bat! - Underline

Nimbus Note - Underline

Notezilla - Underline

CintaNotes 3.13 - Display untagged notes.

CintaNotes 3.13 - Toggle various formatting on currently selected text.

Front (macOS) - Underline

Tracktion T7 DAW (Windows) - Punch out of automation record mode, clearing any subsequent curve data

Mailchimp - Underline selected text

Jama Connect - Applies or removes underline

Bitrix24 - Underline the highlighted text

Bitrix24 - Underline the highlighted text

Powtoon (Windows) - Underline/Undo Underline

Nimbus Note (2022) - Underline

Autodesk Vault 2022 - Update

Centricity EMR - Begin a chart update

Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 (Windows) - Make text bold while using Rich Text Editor component in Preview mode

Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 (Windows) - Underline letters

Smartsheet (Windows) - Underline

Syncfusion Bigdata Studio - Upload file or folder

Microsoft Publisher 2021 - Underline text

Soundtrap (Windows) - Open/close the Loop Tab

M*Modal Editor - Underline

ChartNet Editor - Underline

Oracle PeopleSoft - Selection lowercase

Alchemy Catalyst 2023 - Translation memory > Update > Update expert

Alchemy Catalyst 2023 - Experts > Update expert…

Zulip Terminal - Cut backwards to the start of the line

SmartDraw - Underline Text

Google Slides (PC) - Underline

SelfCAD - Union

eMachineShop - Ungroups current selection

Prezi (Windows) - Underline text

Scientific (39)

Archicad 24 - Multiply...

Archicad 24 - Uncomment

KiCad 5.0.2 - Switch Units

Catia V5 - Update

Altium Designer - Scale selected objects in the current document based on a specified base point and scale factor

Tekla Structures 20 - Update

MathType 7 - User 1 one-shot

LabView - Deletes all User Layers

PowerScribe 360 - Underline selected text

Originlab Origin 2020 - Open the Options dialog.

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Originlab Origin 2020 - Toggle Underline on & off

ETABS 20.3 - Display units…

Maple - Underline (text or Maple input)

Maple - Undo Changes to the Line

FlowJo (Windows) - Expand All

FlowJo (Windows) - Ungroup

FlowJo (Windows) - Up to Parent Population

MicroStation V8i - Ungroup selected elements

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 16.1 - Find the diagrams that use the current element

Multisim - Bus

Onshape 1.98 - Feedback / Report a bug

Vectorworks 2020 - Ungroup

Google Looker (Windows, 2023) - Share

Google Looker (Windows, 2023) - Share

Simulink - Data Inspector - Link or unlink a subplot

OpenSCAD 2019.05 - Lowercase selection

Originlab Origin 2020 (Mac keyboard) - Open the Options dialog.

Originlab Origin 2020 (Mac keyboard) - Toggle Underline on & off

TrueCAD 2021 - Toggle polar tracking (Typed entry: POLARTRACK)

Desmos Graphing Calculator (macOS) - Switch to UEB

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Apply underline

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Switch the selection

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Switch selected rows

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Increase the observer elevation

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Increase the target elevation

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Increase the view dome elevation

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Increase the observer elevation

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Increase the plane elevation

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Switch the selection

Hardware (1)

BlackBerry Classic - Underline

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Table of contents

General (31)
Text editing (50)
Imaging (60)
System tools (14)
Developer tools (57)
Web applications (12)
File manager (9)
Media player (12)
Games - PC (20)
Social & Messaging (19)
Security (5)
Productivity (123)
Scientific (39)
Hardware (1)

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