What is Space keyboard shortcut for?
This shortcut is used by 340 programs in our database.
There isn't any generic description for this shortcut.
Popular programs using this shortcut
What this shortcut does in different programs?
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Fortnite (PC)
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Jump
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Fortnite (PC)
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Skip cutscene
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Jump
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Vault
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Handbrake
All programs
All programs using this shortcut, by category.
General
Adobe Audition
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Start and stop playback
Adobe Audition (Mac)
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Start and stop playback
Amazon Fire TV
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Media playback
Apple macOS
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Use Quick Look to preview the selected item
Ardour
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Toggle roll
Audacity
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Play/Stop
AVImark
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Bring to Front (stacked appointments)
BlackBerry Classic
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Move down the screen
BlackBerry Classic
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Start or stop the stopwatch
BlackBerry Classic
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Start or stop the timer
Camtasia
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Play / pause
Feedreader
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Navigate to next unread headline in standard view or web view
Firefox Quantum
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Toggle play / pause
Foxit PDF Reader 2.0
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Next page
GoldWave
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Starts or stops playback using green play button mode. See Control Properties.
Google Chrome
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Scroll down a webpage, a screen at a time
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
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Click the Notification bar
Microsoft Photos App
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(In Collection) Select an item and enter Selection mode
Microsoft Photos App
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Show or hide commands while viewing a photo
Microsoft Photos App
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Play or pause the video
Mozilla Thunderbird
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Scroll down current message, then go to next unread message
NVDA Screen Reader
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Activate button
NVDA Screen Reader
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Select and deselect checkboxes
Opera
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Move one screen-full down
Opera
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Move one screen-full down, then go to next unread
Safari
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Open the selected bookmark
Safari
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Open the selected folder
Safari
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Close the selected folder
Windows Calculator
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Toggle the bit value
Windows Voice Recorder
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Play or pause
Text editing
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)
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Temporarily select Hand tool
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)
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Scroll (when Hand tool is selected)
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)
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Press the Go Back button in a folder if focus is on the button
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)
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Run the command in focus
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)
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Select a highlighted control in the top bar
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix)
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Temporarily select Hand tool
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix)
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Scroll (when Hand tool is selected)
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix)
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Run the command in focus
Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix)
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Select a highlighted control in the top bar
GNU Emacs
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Replace this one, go to next
GNU Emacs
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Complete up to one word
Microsoft FrontPage
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Open the selected menu, or perform the action assigned to the selected button.
Microsoft Word 2016
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Activate a selected command or control on the ribbon
Microsoft Word 2016
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Open a selected menu or gallery on the ribbon
PDF-XChange Editor
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(hold) Enable Hand Tool Temporarily
PDF-XChange Editor
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Go to selected bookmark
PDF-XChange Editor
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Move to the selected bookmark
Xodo
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Scroll Page down
Imaging
ACDSee Free
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Displays the next image
Adobe Illustrator
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Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-edit mode)
Adobe Illustrator
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Move Zoom marquee while dragging with the Zoom tool
Adobe Illustrator (Mac)
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Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-edit mode)
Adobe Illustrator (Mac)
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Move Zoom marquee while dragging with the Zoom tool
Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Switch from Grid to Loupe view
Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Toggle between Loupe and 1:1 Zoom preview
Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Pause slide show
Adobe Lightroom Classic (Mac)
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Switch from Grid to Loupe view
Adobe Lightroom Classic (Mac)
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Toggle between Loupe and 1:1 Zoom preview
Adobe Lightroom Classic (Mac)
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Pause slide show
Adobe Photoshop CC
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Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-edit mode)
Adobe Photoshop CC
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Temporarily activate Hand tool
Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac)
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Play
Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac)
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Play/Stop Toggle
Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac)
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Play-Stop Toggle
Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows)
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Play
Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows)
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Play/Stop Toggle
Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows)
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Play-Stop Toggle
Adobe XD (Mac)
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Pan
Adobe XD (Windows)
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Pan
Affinity Designer
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Hot key panning
Apple iMovie
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Play video beginning from the frame beneath the playhead or skimmer
Autodesk SketchBook (Mac)
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Zoom / rotate / move canvas
Blender
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Search (3D view) / Toolbox (UV/Image Editor)
Clip Studio Paint Pro
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Hand
Corel Painter
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Scroll image with grabber
Corel Painter (Mac)
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Scroll image with grabber
Corel Painter (Mac)
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Pan tool
DaVinci Resolve 15 (Mac)
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Pause / start playback
FaceRig Studio
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Toggle play / pause
FaceRig Studio
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Toggle play / pause
FastStone Image Viewer
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Display the image in actual size (100%)
Final Cut Pro X
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Start or pause playback
GIMP
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Activate current button or list
HitFilm
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Space
Inkscape
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Use Selector temporarily
IrfanView
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Go to next image in current directory
Kdenlive
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Play
LDCad
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Switch between split views (if any) and a zoomed current editing view
Nuke
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(short press) Expand the focused panel to the full window
Nuke
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(long press) Raise the right-click menu
Shotcut
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Play
Shotcut (Mac)
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Play
SketchUp
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Select tool
Substance Painter
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Toggle particles animation
Substance Painter (Mac)
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Toggle particles animation
System tools
Clipboard Master
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Define area
Everything
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Select focus
Narrator
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Activate an item that you want to use, such as a button or text box
VisualBoyAdvance-M
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Speed up
Developer tools
Autodesk Stingray
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Play/stop animation
FileMaker
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Click a selected button on a layout with the keyboard
FileMaker
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Play or edit a sound in a container field
FileMaker
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Issue a selected command button
Git Tower (Mac)
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Stage/unstage selected file(s)
Git Tower (Windows)
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Stage/unstage selected file(s)
GitHub
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Start moving the focused column
GitHub
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Start moving the focused card
Jupyter Notebook
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Scroll down
RStudio
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Stage/Unstage (Git)
RStudio (Mac)
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Stage/Unstage (Git)
Unity
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Play Animation
Unreal Engine
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Next transform
Web applications
9gag
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Scroll one page down
BBC iPlayer
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Activate buttons
Chromebook and Chrome OS
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Scroll down the web page
FastMail
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Page down
Google Photos
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Play / pause video
Netflix
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Toggle play / pause
OneDrive
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Select or clear the selection of a file or folder
OneDrive
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Select or clear the selection of a file or folder
SnapStream
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Play / Pause
TinyMCE
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Execute command
Twitch
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Pause video
Twitter
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Next page
Vimeo
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Play / pause
Yahoo Mail
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Check/Uncheck a message
YouTube
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Pause/Play video (player focus required)
YouTube Studio
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Play / pause
File manager
Adobe Bridge CC
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Full screen preview
Adobe Bridge CC
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Full screen preview
Adobe Bridge CC (Mac)
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Full screen preview
Adobe Bridge CC (Mac)
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Full screen preview
Total Commander
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Select current file/folder
Media player
AIMP
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Play/Pause
BSPlayer
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Pause
GOM Player
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Play/pause
iTunes 11 for Mac
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Play the currently selected song
iTunes 11 for Mac
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Start or stop playing the selected song
iTunes 11 for Windows
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Start or stop playing the selected song
KMPlayer
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Play
Kodi
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Current playlist window (video & music listings)
Kodi
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Highlight (File manager)
Microsoft Movies and TV
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Play or pause (when a video is in focus)
Spotify
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Play/pause
VLC Media Player
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Play or pause the video
Games
Agar.io
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Split your cell in two or more equal cells
AI War Classic
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Center display on selected units
AI War Classic
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(hold) Follow selected units with display
American Truck Simulator
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Parking brake
Apex Legends (PC)
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Jump
ARK: Survival Evolved
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Land/ Take-off
Assetto Corsa
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Open/close doors
Astroneer
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Jump
Battlefield V
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Parachute deploy
Battlezone 98 Redux
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Issue smart reticle command to selected unit
Black Desert Online
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Jump, crawl while crouched
Blood
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Use items or open doors
Bus Simulator 18
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Handbrake
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
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Jump / Stand / Mantle
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
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Fly up / jump
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
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Confirm
City Car Driving
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Parking brake
CoSpaces Edu
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Jump
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
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Jump
DayZ
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Jump
Deponia
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Show all hotspots and pause a cutscene
Destiny 2
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Jump
Diablo
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Closes all open windows
Diablo II
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Cancels all screens to view just normal view
Diablo III
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Close all open windows
Don't Starve (PC)
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Auto-action (except attack)
Dota 2
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Jumps the camera to a recent event (hero death, tower death, etc).
Dota 2
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Toggle the coach's perspective between the own and the student
Elex (PC)
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Jump / Climb
Enter the Gungeon
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Use item
Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Handbrake
Europa Universalis IV
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Play / Pause
Fallout 76
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Jump
Fez
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Jump
Flyff
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Jump
Grand Theft Auto V
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Jump / handbrake
Grand Theft Auto V
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Handbrake
Grand Theft Auto V
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Aircraft Fire
Grand Theft Auto V
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Phone Special Option
Grand Theft Auto V
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Preview audio clip
Grand Theft Auto V
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Stop clip preview
Grand Theft Auto V
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Play / pause clip
Hearthstone
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Open pack
Heroes of the Storm
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Center camera to your hero
Hotline Miami
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Finish enemy
Kerbal Space Program
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Detach stage or launch
Kerbal Space Program
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Toggle translation/rotation
Kerbal Space Program
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Jump/Let go of part
Kerbal Space Program
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Reorient attitude to camera by jet
Kerbal Space Program
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Reset part rotation
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
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Skip dialogue
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
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Jump / Climb
League of Legends
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Center camera on champion (holding Space will hold the camera on the champion until released)
Life Is Strange 2
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Dialogs during interactions
Madden NFL 19
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(hold) Protect the ball
Madden NFL 19
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Pass to receiver
Minecraft Bedrock Edition
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Jump / fly up
Minecraft Java Edition
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Jump
Minesweeper
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Used as clicking squares
Nier: Automata
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Jump
No Man's Sky
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Jump/climb with jetpack
Old School RuneScape (OSRS)
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Used in the Make X interface to continue with the default settings or in character dialog to continue
Overwatch
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Jump
Path of Exile
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Close all opened panels
Pharaoh
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Toggles between your last selected Overlay and the Normal View
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Jump
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Vault
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Handbrake
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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Center map around the character's current position
RimWorld
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Pauses and unpauses game
Rocket League
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Focus on ball
Rust
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Jump
Sea of Thieves
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Jump
Spintires (PC)
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Handbrake
StarCraft 2
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View last warning area
Subnautica
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Jump
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth
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Use current item
The Curse of Monkey Island
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Pause game
The Forest
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Jump
The Secret of Monkey Island
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Pause the game
The Sims 4
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Select the next Sim in the Household
This War of Mine
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Pause the game (no menu popup)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Navigate
Total War: Attila
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Toggle move speed
Total War: Attila
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Show unit orders
Total War: Attila (Mac)
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Toggle move speed
Total War: Attila (Mac)
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Show unit orders
Unturned
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Jump
Warcraft III
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Center on last notification(s)
World of Tanks
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Stop and fire while moving
World of Warcraft
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Jump
Social & Messaging
Google+
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Scroll down
NewsBin Pro
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(in dialog box) If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option
Office Delve
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Select the highlighted area or item. If you have highlighted the title area of a content card, press Enter to open the document. If you have highlighted the expand area at the bottom of a content card, press the Spacebar to view more details for the document
Slack
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Take action or "click" on buttons
Zimbra Web Client
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Select next
Zimbra Web Client
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Continue reading
Zimbra Web Client
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Save changes
Security
Airodump-ng
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Pause display redrawing/ Resume redrawing
Comodo IceDragon
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Toggle Play / Pause
Productivity
Ableton Live 10
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Play from Start Marker/Stop
Ableton Live 10
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Play Arrangement View Selection
Ableton Live 10 (Mac)
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Play from Start Marker/Stop
Ableton Live 10 (Mac)
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Play Arrangement View Selection
ActivePresenter 7
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Preview
Aegisub
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Play audio until the end of the selection is reached
Android
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Go to next page in any web page or document
Apple Calendar
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(with the Calendar list open) Select or deselect the checkbox next to the selected calendar
Apple GarageBand
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Start or stop playback
draw.io
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Pan canvas
Evolution
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Scroll down
For Honor
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Dodge. Double press Space to roll
Freemind
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Toggle folded
Freshdesk
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Scroll down the ticket
Guitar Pro
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Play
Huggle
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Show next diff
Kindle for Mac
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Pause or resume reading (while in a book)
Kindle for PC
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Pause or resume reading (while in a book)
Lacerte
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Select or unselect the highlighted client
LibreOffice
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Toggles the focused check box in a dialog
LibreOffice
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Switches between themes view and object view
LibreOffice
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Toggles row selection, except when the row is in edit mode
LibreOffice
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Select a point of a drawing object (in Point Selection mode) / Cancel selection
LibreOffice
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The selected point blinks once per second
LibreOffice Impress
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Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide)
Microsoft Access 2016
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Activate the selected command or control on the ribbon
Microsoft Access 2016
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Open the selected menu or gallery on the ribbon
Microsoft Access 2016
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Choose the selected data column for output
Microsoft Access 2016
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Remove the selected data column from the query output
Microsoft Access 2016
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Toggle the check box in the Output column
Microsoft Access 2016
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Switch between the values in a check box or option button
Microsoft Excel 2016
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Activate a selected button
Microsoft PowerPoint (Creating presentations)
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Open the selected menu or gallery on the ribbon
Microsoft PowerPoint (Slideshows)
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Perform the next animation or advance to the next slide
MindMeister
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Open/close branches
Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2013
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In the Reading pane, page down through text
REAPER
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Transport: Play/stop
Riffstation Desktop
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Play / return playhead to starting position
Sumatra PDF
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Scroll by one screen
Trello
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Assign self
Virtual DJ 2018
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Play /pause
WavePad
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Play/Pause
Zendesk Support
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Select current item
Scientific
KiCad 5.0.2
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Reset Local Coordinates
KiCad 5.0.2
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Reset local coordinates
KiCad 5.0.2
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Reset local coordinates
Tekla Structures 20
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Finish polygon input
