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Keyboard shortcuts for howt.io

Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to speed up your workflow. howt.io offers a variety of shortcuts to make your life easier.

First and foremost, you can always toggle CTRL + K to open and close the jump-to-modal from which you can navigate to any point or element of the app which a few keystrokes.

Beside that, most of the actions worth key-stroking can be applied on the editor .

These shortcuts work from everywhere in the app:

Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Open / toggle jump-to-modal
Ctrl K
K
Toggle color mode (also works here on the website)
F9
F9


Here is a list of all the shortcuts you can use inside the editor :
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Open / toggle jump-to-modal
Ctrl K
K
Save current document
Ctrl S
S
Undo last action
Ctrl Z
Z
Clear undo history
Press Alt and click the undo button
Press and click the undo button
Copy selected annotation
Ctrl C
C
Paste annotation
Ctrl V
V
Remove selected annotation
← Backspace or Del
⌫ Backspace or
Remove selected step (in sidebar)
← Backspace or Del
⌫ Backspace or


These shortcuts can be used when editing text, for example using paragraph step-items :
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Toggle bold
Ctrl B
B
Toggle italic
Ctrl I
I
Toggle underline
Ctrl U
U
Toggle strikethrough
Ctrl Shift S
Shift S
Toggle highlight
Ctrl Shift H
Shift H
Toggle code
Ctrl E
e
Apply normal text style
Ctrl Alt 0
Alt0
Apply heading style 1
Ctrl Alt 1
Alt1
Apply heading style 2
Ctrl Alt 2
Alt2
Apply heading style 3
Ctrl Alt 3
Alt3
Apply heading style 4
Ctrl Alt 4
Alt4
Apply heading style 5
Ctrl Alt 5
Alt5
Apply heading style 6
Ctrl Alt 6
Alt6
Ordered list
Ctrl Shift 7
Shift7
Blockquote
Ctrl Shift B
ShiftB
Center align
Ctrl Shift E
ShiftE
Subscript
Ctrl,
,
Superscript
Ctrl.
.


General text manipulation shortcuts can be used in the editor as well:
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Select all
Ctrl A
A
Extend selection one character to left
Shift
Shift
Extend selection one character to right
Shift
Shift
Extend selection one line up
Shift
Shift
Extend selection one line down
Shift
Shift
Extend selection to the beginning of the document
Ctrl Shift
Shift
Extend selection to the end of the document
Ctrl Shift
Shift


When working with images and annotations, these are your options:
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Cycle trough annotations type
A
A
Cycle backwards trough annotations
Shift A
Shift A
Select "select" annotation
V
V
Select line annotation
L
L
Select rectangle annotation
R
R
Select circle annotation
C
C
Select highlight annotation
H
H
Select sequence annotation
S
S
Select clipart annotation
P
P
Select text annotation
T
T
Move annotation by 1px
Move annotation by 10px
Shift
Shift
Move annotation by 100px
Ctrl
Rotate annotation by 15 degree
Shift while rotating
Shift while rotating
Keep scale when resizing annotation
Ctrl while resizing
while resizing
Move annotation one layer up
+ while selected
+ while selected
Move annotation one layer down
- while selected
- while selected

Updated 1 year ago
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