All the New Confluence Shortcuts You Need to Know

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Change is in the air, and your keyboard is feeling it too. Confluence keyboard shortcuts have been trusty companions for many of us, helping us quickly create pages, comment, and organize our work. But after 14 years, even the best tools sometimes need a refresh.

Remember hitting “C” to create a new page? Try it now, and Confluence will show you the following popup, reminding you about the new shortcut.

Why the Change?

Starting June 2025, Atlassian has refreshed keyboard shortcuts to match modern workflows. Confluence is now faster, more intuitive, and more powerful. We know change is tough—especially for muscle memory—but you'll get used to these small shifts quickly.

Changes at a Glance

Atlassian has updated their shortcut overview, and we’ll show you the difference to what you’re used to:

Key Takeaways

• Most popular single-key shortcuts (C, M, W) remain functional alongside new, multi-key combinations.

• Labels shortcut (L) and shortcuts for viewing attachments and links have been deprecated.

• The new multi-key shortcuts include modifier keys, which differ significantly from the simpler single-key shortcuts.

Quick Tips to Ease the Transition

• Keep using your trusted single-key shortcuts (C, M, W) as they're still available.

• Give the new shortcuts a try! Familiarity builds quickly, we promise.

• Need help remembering? Simply press Shift + ? anytime to see all shortcuts clearly listed.

What About You?

We talked about these shortcuts in our team and realized we hardly use most of them! Sure, slash commands and bold text are part of our daily routine. But things like editing labels? Not really.

What about you? Are you ahead of us? Let us know if you're shortcut-savvy!

[Kristian Klima]

The new Atlassian shortcut system reminds me of the old, pre-decimalization, British currency system (the £sd / Lsd).

L is for pound.
S is for shilling.
D is for, logically, pence :) 

[Dave Mathijs]

3 keys instead of 1, that's not what I call progress... 🤔

Is there a shortcut to permanently eliminate pop-up windows in Atlassian apps? 🙃

Anyways, thanks for sharing @Patricia Modispacher (k15t) 

[Amanda Barber]

How did D become the shorthand for pence, @Kristian Klima??? 🤪

Although I guess I never understood lb for pound here in the US... (also, L for pound?)

[Kristian Klima]

@Amanda Barber 

Goes back to Roman times' units of measure - libra, solidus, denarius. Backsplaining it provides the sense of logic although I'm not sure what's wrong with PSP. It's not like it'd be mistaken for the gaming console back in the day.

Had £sd appeared in the 1960s, one could easily infer what influenced that naming convention :D 

Fun fact, the pound translates as 'libra' in some languages (Slovak, Czech, for example) although it's not really a translation but rather the original Roman name.

[Amanda Barber]

So interesting. Thanks for sharing, @Kristian Klima