Visual Editor keyboard shortcuts

Speed up your workflow when using Builder's Visual Editor by learning the following keyboard shortcuts.

Overview

Keyboard shortcuts speed up your workflow within the Visual Editor.
Press Cmd + k (Mac), Ctrl + k (Windows), to open the command palette for the Visual Editor, which contains a list of several tools.

The following shortcuts do not require any block within the Visual Editor to be selected.

The video below demonstrates a few editor-level shortcuts.

Action	Mac	Windows
save a checkpoint	`Cmd + s`	`Ctrl + s`
select all blocks within the content entry	`Cmd + a`	`Ctrl + a`
display command palette	`Cmd + k`	`Ctrl + k`
display developer options	`Ctrl + y`, `Cmd + Ctrl + a`	`Ctrl + y`, `Cmd + Ctrl + a`
display content JSON	`Cmd + e`	`Ctrl + e`

The following shortcuts do not require one or more blocks to be selected within the Visual Editor.

The video below demonstrates a few block-level shortcuts.

Action	Mac shortcut	Windows shortcut
copy	`Cmd + c`	`Ctrl + c`
paste	`Cmd + v`	`Ctrl + v`
cut	`Cmd + x`	`Ctrl + x`
undo	`Cmd + z`	`Ctrl + z`
redo	`Cmd + shift + z`	`Ctrl + shift + z`
duplicate	`Cmd + d`	`Ctrl + d`
group a selection	`Cmd + g`	`Ctrl + g`
ungroup	`Cmd + Shift + g`	`Ctrl + Shift + g`
copy style	`Cmd + Opt + c`, `Ctrl + Alt + c`	`Ctrl + Alt + c`
paste style	`Cmd + Opt + v`	`Ctrl + Alt + v`
lock group	`Cmd + Opt + g`	`Ctrl + Alt + g`
deselect all	`Cmd + Shift + a`	`Ctrl + Shift + a`
adjust top margin	`Shift + upArrow`, `Shift + downArrow`	`Shift + upArrow`, `Shift + downArrow`
adjust left margin	`Shift + leftArrow`, `Shift + rightArrow`	`Shift + leftArrow`, `Shift + rightArrow`
display content JSON	`Cmd + e`	`Ctrl + e`

Learn more about the Command Palette or consider reading an Overview of the Visual Editor.

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