Confluence magic shortcuts

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Confluence: The collaboration tool that serves the need of product documentation, Knowledge base, project planning activities or for blogging.

You will start enjoying the confluence tool, if you try your hands with keyboard shortcuts.

Okay, so how will I access the short cut's menu?

In the confluence home page, simply click on Shift+? to launch the short cuts window.

Atlassian has classified the shortcuts in 3 categories:

• General – Global, page and blog post shortcuts.

• Editor – Text editing and formatting shortcuts that apply to the legacy editor.

• Editor Autoformatting – Wiki mark up and autoformatting shortcuts that apply to the legacy editor.

Here's an overview of all category shortcuts in the latest confluence version.

Block Formatting	Shortcut
Paragraph	Ctrl+Alt+0
Heading 1	Ctrl+Alt+1
Heading 6	Ctrl+Alt+6
Numbered list	Ctrl+Shift+7
Bullet list	Ctrl+Shift+8
Quote	Ctrl+Shift+9
Bold	Ctrl+B

Global sections	Shortcut
Create Content	c
Go to Dashboard	g    d
Open Notifications	g    n
Browse Current Space	g    s
Open Shortcut Help	?
Quick Search	/
Quick Search	g    g
Toggle Space Sidebar	[

Page / Blog Post Actions	Shortcut
Add Page	c
Add Blog	b
Edit	e
Comment	m
Next Inline Comment	n
Previous Inline Comment	p
Close Inline Comment	]
Watch Page	w
Share	s
Edit Labels	l
View Attachments	t
Favourite Page	f
Link to Page	k

Rich Formatting	Shortcut
Files and images	Ctrl+M
Insert link	Ctrl+K
Insert markup	Ctrl+Shift+D
Macro	Ctrl+Shift+A
Table	Ctrl+Shift+I
Add row above	Ctrl+Alt+↑
Add row below	Ctrl+Alt+↓
Add column after	Ctrl+Alt+→
Add column before	Ctrl+Alt+←

Editing	Shortcut
Preview	Ctrl+Shift+E
Publish	Ctrl+Enter
Publish with note	Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Find & Replace	Ctrl+Shift+H

Font Formatting	Shortcut
**Bold**	**Bold**
~~Strikethrough~~	~~Strikethrough~~
*Italic*	*Italic*
`Monospace`	`Monospace`

Autocomplete	Shortcut
Image/ media	!
Link	[
Macro	{
mention	@

Tables	Shortcut
Simple table	|Cell|Cell|
Table with header	||Heading||Heading||

Styles	Shortcut
Heading 1	#Space
Heading 3	###Space
Quote	>Space
✅	(/)
🙂	:)

Lists	Shortcut
Numbered list	1.Space
Bullet list	*Space
Task	[]Space

If you would like to explore theory, short cuts for previous version and related details, access this official and public Confluence link:

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/keyboard-shortcuts-markdown-and-autocomplete/

[Vero Rivas]

Hi @G subramanyam 

  Many thanks for sharing !!!

Cheers

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Vero Rivas I'm glad you liked the post and found it helpful.

[Sri Kumar]

Thank you @G subramanyam, This a great resource to bookmark, use and also share with our team. Thanks for taking the time to put everything on one page. 

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Sri Kumar thank you for your time too in reading the post.

[Bastian Stehmann]

Love it, thanks a lot for this.

[G subramanyam]

I'm glad @Bastian Stehmann you found this post helpful.

[Marcio C_]

I just ran into this! I have a goal to become more agile within Confluence and this is very helpful! Thanks for sharing. 

[Tara Kuhner]

Hi @G subramanyam do you know the shortcut on a mac to add an attachment? I can't add an attachment using Ctrl + M on Confluence on my mac using this, but most of the others work. Thank you !

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Tara Kuhner thank you for checking my article.

I'm familiar with Windows systems and haven't used Mac. 

Hi @Monique vdB would you be able to help with Mac Confluence shortcuts or resources please.

[MoatazFarid]

What a Great post!! Thanks @G subramanyam 

[Cenk_Mola]

Thanks for the post. Is there any other shortcuts, such as Split Cell or Merge?

[Catuiwen]

Thanks for the post.

[Myles Prather]

Any hotkey for indent/outdent? I tend to do a lot of this when creating bullet/numbered lists. Really breaks up the flow to grab the mouse and click those buttons over and over. Thanks!

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Myles Prather you may use the following shortcuts:

Indent: Press Tab key
Outdent: Press Shift + Tab keys

[Myles Prather]

1. Tested
   1. Works
2. Thanks G!

[Ivan K.]

Thnx, @G subramanyam 

Additional shortcuts:

• italic: Ctrl+I
• red icon with cross, like green checkmark: (x)

BTW: I would appreciate a shortcut for strike-through, like Ctrl+B for bold or Ctrl+I for italic. This way, it would be possible to highlight some text/content with either mouse or keyboard (e.g. several cells of a table) and press the corresponding shortcut.

[Rav Singh]

@ivan_k you can do Ctrl+Shift+S for Strikethrough

[Mark Timperley]

How does one select a table while in edit mode, the entire table, all rows and columns?

I would like to select a table so I can convert it to a Page Property. In a previous version of Confluence, I was able to triple-click the left outside margin of a table to select it all, then select a Page Properties macro to convert (i.e. add) the table to the Page Property macro. Now after an update, this triple-click "feature" is gone, so for now, I have to left-click and wave the mouse around the entire table to select it. When the tables is large, and scrolling is needed, this is very cumbersome. Would love to discover some shortcut to select a table.

[Leif Rilbe]

Using Ctrl+Alt combinations for shortcuts on Windows is not recommended, since Ctrl+Alt = AltGr.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040329-00/?p=40003

So... for me, setting Heading 2 with Ctrl+Alt+2 does not work.... it produces an "@" sign.... 

Any plans for changing shortcut combinations to something that is actually useful?