Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts exist in the browser and desktop apps. Android and iOS have no keyboard equivalent; most of these actions have a button or a gesture there, but layer reordering does not exist on mobile at all.

Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Windows. Press ? in the editor for a quick-reference overlay — it covers most of what is below.

History#

Selection and clipboard#

Copy, cut and paste work in the browser only — in the desktop app the native menu owns those keys.

Paste takes an image from your computer's clipboard as well as media copied inside Docuslice: copy a file in Finder or Explorer, or take a screenshot, and Cmd/Ctrl + V brings it onto the canvas. When both clipboards hold something, the file copied outside the app wins.

Repeated pastes are offset so copies do not stack invisibly, and the clipboard belongs to the session, so copying on one page and pasting on another works.

Arranging#

The four layer shortcuts have no button anywhere — the keyboard is the only way to reach them. See layers and stacking order.

Text#

Bold and italic act on the selected characters while you are editing, and on the whole text otherwise. They move between the styles the font family has, so Bold picks the nearest heavier style when a family has no Bold — see adding and styling text.

The alignment shortcuts work while a text or paragraph is selected or being edited. In the browser, Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + R is also the hard reload: it aligns right while a text is selected, and reloads the page otherwise. See paragraphs, lists and spacing.

View#

When a shortcut does not fire#

• You are typing. While editing a text box, keys go into the text. Press Escape first. The text shortcuts are the exception — bold, italic, alignment and Tab in a list are meant to work mid-sentence and do.
• Nothing is selected. The selection and arrange shortcuts need a target.
• You are on another page. Shortcuts act on the page currently in view.

Related#

• Moving, resizing and rotating
• Zooming and panning the canvas