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This article provides an overview of some of the shortcut key combinations that you can use when you're working with Business Central.

For an overview of the most popular keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard Shortcuts (PC only).

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For a graphical view of the most used shortcuts, choose the following image and download the PDF file.

Overview

Keyboard shortcuts aid accessibility and can make it easier and more efficient to navigate to different areas and elements on a page. They're supported by most web browsers, however, the behavior may vary slightly.

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Note

The keyboard shortcuts described here refer to the U.S. keyboard layout. The layout of the keys on other keyboards may not correspond exactly to the keys on a U.S. keyboard.

Most of the shortcuts are the same whether the operating system is Windows or macOS. However, some shortcuts differ for macOS. These shortcuts are indicated with brackets in the following sections.

Note

In addition to the global keyboard shortcuts described in this topic, a number of business-specific shortcuts are available. For example, in the generic version of Business Central, F9 posts a document and Ctrl+F7 shows the ledger entries for a record when you open the record in a card. (These may be different in your solution.) The keyboard shortcut is shown in the tooltip for the action in question.

General Keyboard Shortcuts

About keyboard shortcuts. In GitHub brings up a dialog box that lists the keyboard shortcuts available for that page. You can use these keyboard shortcuts to perform actions across the site without using your mouse to navigate. Below is a list of some of the available keyboard shortcuts. Shortcut keys ABCs. Shortcut keys help provide an easier and quicker method of navigating and executing commands in the computer software. Shortcut keys are performed using the Alt key (on IBM compatible computers), Command (on Apple computers), Ctrl key, or Shift key in conjunction with another key. How to type an Alt Symbol on keyboard? For example, let's type a degree symbol by using its Alt Code value on the keyboard. Make sure you switch on the NumLock, press and hold down the Alt key, type the Alt Code value of the degree symbol 0176 on the numeric pad, release the Alt key and you got a °. When an Emacs text editing shortcut conflicts with the default shortcuts (as occurs with Ctrl + K), the Emacs shortcut will take precedence if focus is inside a text box (which would include the address bar and search bar). In such cases you should use the alternate keyboard shortcut if one is listed below. For mouse shortcuts, see this article.

The following table describes keyboard shortcuts for navigating and accessing different elements of a page. Elements include things like actions, drop-down lists, lookups, and more. For details about keyboard shortcuts for navigating records once you get inside a list, see the next section.

Press these keys (in macOS)	To do this
Alt+Down Arrow	Open a drop-down list or look up a value for a field.
Alt+Up Arrow	Show tooltip for a field or a column header of a table. If the field has validation errors, press Alt+Up Arrow to show the validation error. Press Esc or Alt+Up Arrow to close the tooltip.
F2	Toggle between selecting the entire field value or placing the cursor at the end of the field value.
Alt+F2	Show and hide the FactBox pane.
Alt+Shift+F2	Shift between Details and Attachments in the FactBox pane.
Alt+O	Add a new note for the selected record, even if the FactBox pane isn't open.
Alt+Q (Ctrl+Option+Q)	Open the Tell Me window. For more information, see Finding Pages and Information with Tell Me.
Alt+N	Open a page to create a new record. (Similar to choosing the New and + actions.)
Alt+Shift+N	Close a newly created page and open a new one to create a new record. Similarly, Alt+F9 posts a document and creates a new one.
Alt+T	Open the My Settings page.
Alt+Right Arrow	Look up additional information or underlying values for a field that contains the button. This is used when the usual drop-down button (Alt+Down Arrow) in the same field is used for another purpose.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C	Display information in the company badge.
Ctrl+Alt+F1	Open and close the page inspection pane. The page inspection pane shows information about the page, like its source table, fields, filters, extensions, and more. For more information, see Inspecting Pages.
Ctrl+C	Copy the value of field. If the field is in focus, and you haven't selected any text in the field, this will copy the entire value. If you've selected any text in the field, then it will copy the selected text only.
Ctrl+F1	Open the Business Central help for the page.
Ctrl+F12	Switch between wide and narrow layout view.
Ctrl+Click	Navigate during personalizing or customizing when the action is highlighted with an arrowhead. For more information, see Personalize Your Workspace.
Ctrl+F5	Reload the Business Central application. (Similar to selecting refresh/reload in the browser.)
F5	Refresh the data on the current page. Use this key to ensure that the data on the page is up to date with any changes that others have made while you're working.
Enter	Enable or access the element or control that is in focus.
Esc	Close the current page or drop-down list.
Tab	Move focus to the next control or element on a page, such as actions, buttons, fields, or list headings.
Shift+Tab	Move focus to the previous control or element on a page, such as actions, buttons, fields, or list headings.
Y and N	Activate Yes and No buttons in dialog boxes. Actual keys will vary based on your current language specified in My Settings. For example, press J to activate the Ja button when using German language.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Lists

The following table describes the keyboard shortcuts that you can use on a list page. The shortcut action is slightly different depending on whether the page is shown in the list view or tile view.

[!Note]> In the table that follows, the term *actionable field* refers to a field on which you can do something, like change a value or link to another page. In general, the shortcuts will skip over fields that display information that you cannot change from the list (in other words, fields that are read-only).-->

General

Press these keys (in macOS)	To do this in a list view	To do this in a tile view
Alt+F7	Sort the selected column in ascending or descending order.	Not applicable.
Alt+N	Insert a new line in an editable list, such as the G/L Budgets page.	Same.
Shift+F10	Open a menu of options that are available for the selected row.	Same.

Navigating Between Rows and Columns

Grids containing rows and columns exist on many page types in Business Central, such as list pages and Lines parts on documents. Moving from one cell to another across a grid is fully keyboard-enabled.

Press these keys (in macOS)	To do this in a list view	To do this in a tile view
Ctrl+Home (Fn+Ctrl+Left Arrow)	Select the first row in the list; focus remains in the same column.	Move to the first tile in the first row.
Ctrl+End (Fn+Ctrl+Right Arrow)