Adobe Illustrator keyboard shortcuts

Tools

Shortcut

Selection Direct Selection Group Selection Magic Wand Lasso Pen Add Anchor Point Delete Anchor Point Convert Anchor Point Type Area Type Type on a Path Vertical Type Vertical Area Type Vertical Type on a Path Line Segment Arc Spiral Rectangular Grid Polar Grid Rectangle Rounded Rectangle Ellipse Polygon Star Flare Paintbrush Pencil Smooth Path Eraser Blob Brush Eraser

V A

Y Q P = Shift+C T

B N

Shift+B Shift+E

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Scissors Knife Rotate Reflect Scale Shear Reshape Width Warp Twirl Pucker Bloat Scallop Crystallize Wrinkle Free Transform Shape Builder Live Paint Bucket Live Paint Selection Perspective Grid Perspective Selection Mesh Gradient Eyedropper Measure Blend Symbol Sprayer Symbol Shifter Symbol Scruncher Symbol Sizer Symbol Spinner Symbol Stainer Symbol Screener Symbol Styler

R O S

Shift+W Shift+R

E Shift+M K Shift+L Shift+P Shift+V U G I

W Shift+S

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Column Graph Stacked Column Graph Bar Graph Stacked Bar Graph Line Graph Area Graph Scatter Graph Pie Graph Radar Graph Artboard Slice Slice Selection Hand Print Tiling Zoom Toggle Fill/Stroke Default Swap Fill/Stroke Color Gradient None Toggle Screen Mode Show/Hide All Palettes Show/Hide All But Toolbox Increase Diameter Decrease Diameter Symbolism Tools - Increase Intensity Symbolism Tools - Decrease Intensity Opacity - 0% Opacity - 10% Opacity - 20% Opacity - 30% Opacity - 40% Opacity - 50%

Shift+O Shift+K

Z X D Shift+X , . / F Tab Shift+Tab ] [ Shift+} Shift+{

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Opacity - 60% Opacity - 70% Opacity - 80% Opacity - 90% Opacity - 100% Blend Mode - Normal Blend Mode - Darken Blend Mode - Multiply Blend Mode - Color Burn Blend Mode - Lighten Blend Mode - Screen Blend Mode - Color Dodge Blend Mode - Overlay Blend Mode - Soft Light Blend Mode - Hard Light Blend Mode - Difference Blend Mode - Exclusion Blend Mode - Hue Blend Mode - Saturation Blend Mode - Color Blend Mode - Luminosity Blend Mode - Next Mode Blend Mode - Previous Mode Toggle Drawing Mode Shift+D

Menu Commands
File New New from Template Open Browse in Bridge Device Central Close Ctrl+W Ctrl+N Shift+Ctrl+N Ctrl+O Alt+Ctrl+O

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Save Save As Save a Copy Save as Template Save for Web & Devices Revert Place Save for Microsoft Office Export Scripts Other Script Document Setup Document Color Mode CMYK Color RGB Color File Info Print Exit Edit Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Paste in Front Paste in Back Paste in Place Paste on All Artboards Clear Find and Replace Find Next Check Spelling Edit Custom Dictionary Define Pattern

Ctrl+S Shift+Ctrl+S Alt+Ctrl+S

Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S F12

Ctrl+F12 Alt+Ctrl+P

Alt+Shift+Ctrl+I Ctrl+P Ctrl+Q

Ctrl+Z Shift+Ctrl+Z Ctrl+X Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+F Ctrl+B Shift+Ctrl+V Alt+Shift+Ctrl+V

Ctrl+I

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Edit Colors Adjust Color Balance Blend Front to Back Blend Horizontally Blend Vertically Convert to CMYK Convert to Grayscale Convert to RGB Invert Colors Overprint Black Saturate Edit Original Transparency Flattener Presets Tracing Presets Print Presets Adobe PDF Presets SWF Presets Color Settings Assign Profile Keyboard Shortcuts Preferences General Selection & Anchor Display Type Units Guides & Grid Smart Guides Hyphenation Plug-ins & Scratch Disks User Interface File Handling & Clipboard Appearance of Black Object Transform Ctrl+K Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K Shift+Ctrl+K

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Transform Again Move Rotate Reflect Scale Shear Reset Bounding Box Arrange Bring to Front Bring Forward Send Backward Send to Back Send to Current Layer Group Ungroup Lock Selection All Artwork Above Other Layers Unlock All Hide Selection All Artwork Above Other Layers Show All Expand Expand Appearance Flatten Transparency Rasterize Create Gradient Mesh Slice Make Release Create from Guides

Ctrl+D Shift+Ctrl+M

Shift+Ctrl+] Ctrl+] Ctrl+[ Shift+Ctrl+[

Ctrl+G Shift+Ctrl+G

Ctrl+2

Alt+Ctrl+2

Ctrl+3

Alt+Ctrl+3

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Create from Selection Duplicate Slice Combine Slices Divide Slices Delete All Slice Options Clip to Artboard Path Join Average Simplify Add Anchor Points Remove Anchor Points Divide Objects Below Split Into Grid Clean Up Blend Make Release Blend Options Expand Replace Spine Reverse Spine Reverse Front to Back Envelope Distort Make with Warp Make with Mesh Make with Top Object Release Envelope Options Expand Edit Contents Perspective Live Paint Shift+Ctrl+P Alt+Shift+Ctrl+W Alt+Ctrl+M Alt+Ctrl+C Alt+Ctrl+B Alt+Shift+Ctrl+B Ctrl+J Alt+Ctrl+J

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Make Merge Release Gap Options Expand Live Trace Make Make and Expand Make and Convert to Live Paint Release Tracing Options Expand Expand as Viewed Convert to Live Paint Show No Image Show Original Image Show Adjusted Image Show Transparent Image Show No Tracing Result Show Tracing Result Show Outlines Show Outlines with Tracing Text Wrap Make Release Text Wrap Options Clipping Mask Make Release Edit Contents Compound Path Make Release Artboards

Alt+Ctrl+X

Ctrl+7 Alt+Ctrl+7

Ctrl+8 Alt+Shift+Ctrl+8

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Convert to Artboards Graph Type Data Design Column Marker Type Glyphs Area Type Options Type on a Path Rainbow Skew 3D Ribbon Stair Step Gravity Type on a Path Options Threaded Text Create Release Selection Remove Threading Fit Headline Create Outlines Find Font Change Case UPPERCASE lowercase Title Case Sentence case Smart Punctuation Optical Margin Alignment Show Hidden Characters Type Orientation Horizontal Alt+Ctrl+I Shift+Ctrl+O

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Vertical Legacy Text Update All Legacy Text Update Selected Legacy Text Hide Copies Delete Copies Select Copies Select All All on Active Artboard Deselect Reselect Inverse Next Object Above Next Object Below Same Blending Mode Fill & Stroke Fill Color Opacity Stroke Color Stroke Weight Graphic Style Symbol Instance Link Block Series Object All on Same Layers Direction Handles Brush Strokes Clipping Masks Stray Points Text Objects Flash Dynamic Text Flash Input Text Alt+Ctrl+] Alt+Ctrl+[ Ctrl+A Alt+Ctrl+A Shift+Ctrl+A Ctrl+6

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Save Selection Edit Selection Effect Apply Last Effect Last Effect Document Raster Effects Settings 3D Extrude & Bevel Revolve Rotate Convert to Shape Rectangle Rounded Rectangle Ellipse Distort & Transform Free Distort Pucker & Bloat Roughen Transform Tweak Twist Zig Zag Path Offset Path Outline Object Outline Stroke Pathfinder Add Intersect Exclude Subtract Minus Back Divide Trim Shift+Ctrl+E Alt+Shift+Ctrl+E

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Merge Crop Outline Hard Mix Soft Mix Trap Rasterize Stylize Feather Inner Glow Outer Glow Scribble SVG Filters Warp Arc Arc Lower Arc Upper Arch Bulge Shell Lower Shell Upper Flag Wave Fish Rise Fisheye Inflate Squeeze Twist Effect Gallery Artistic Colored Pencil Cutout Dry Brush

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Film Grain Fresco Neon Glow Paint Daubs Palette Knife Plastic Wrap Poster Edges Rough Pastels Smudge Stick Sponge Underpainting Watercolor Blur Gaussian Blur Radial Blur Smart Blur Brush Strokes Accented Edges Angled Strokes Crosshatch Dark Strokes Ink Outlines Spatter Sprayed Strokes Sumi-e Distort Diffuse Glow Glass Ocean Ripple Pixelate Color Halftone Crystallize Mezzotint Pointillize

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Sharpen Unsharp Mask Sketch Bas Relief Chalk & Charcoal Charcoal Chrome Conte Crayon Graphic Pen Halftone Pattern Note Paper Photocopy Plaster Reticulation Stamp Torn Edges Water Paper Stylize Glowing Edges Texture Craquelure Grain Mosaic Tiles Patchwork Stained Glass Texturizer Video De-Interlace NTSC Colors View Preview Overprint Preview Pixel Preview Proof Setup Ctrl+Y Alt+Shift+Ctrl+Y Alt+Ctrl+Y

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Document CMYK: Legacy Macintosh RGB (Gamma 1.8) Internet Standard RGB (sRGB) Monitor RGB Customize Proof Colors Zoom In Zoom Out Fit Artboard in Window Fit All in Window Actual Size Hide Edges Hide Artboards Hide Print Tiling Show Slices Lock Slices Show Template Rulers Show Rulers Change to Artboard Rulers Hide Bounding Box Show Transparency Grid Show Text Threads Hide Gradient Annotator Show Live Paint Gaps Guides Hide Guides Lock Guides Make Guides Release Guides Clear Guides Smart Guides Perspective Grid Show Grid Shift+Ctrl+I Ctrl+U Ctrl+; Alt+Ctrl+; Ctrl+5 Alt+Ctrl+5 Ctrl+R Alt+Ctrl+R Shift+Ctrl+B Shift+Ctrl+D Shift+Ctrl+Y Alt+Ctrl+G Shift+Ctrl+W Ctrl+= Ctrl+Ctrl+0 Alt+Ctrl+0 Ctrl+1 Ctrl+H Shift+Ctrl+H

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Show Grid Snap to Grid Snap to Point New View Edit Views Custom View 1 Custom View 2 Custom View 3 Custom View 4 Custom View 5 Custom View 6 Custom View 7 Custom View 8 Custom View 9 Custom View 10 Window New Window Arrange Cascade Tile Workspace Save Workspace Manage Workspaces Control Tools Actions Align Appearance Attributes Brushes Color Color Guide Document Info Flattener Preview

Ctrl+' Shift+Ctrl+' Alt+Ctrl+'

Shift+F7 Shift+F6 Ctrl+F11 F5 F6 Shift+F3

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Gradient Graphic Styles Info Layers Links Magic Wand Navigator Pathfinder Stroke SVG Interactivity Swatches Symbols Transform Transparency Type Character Character Styles Flash Text Glyphs OpenType Paragraph Paragraph Styles Tabs Variables Brush Libraries Other Library Graphic Style Libraries Other Library Symbol Libraries Other Library Help Illustrator Help Welcome Screen About Illustrator

Ctrl+F9 Shift+F5 Ctrl+F8 F7

Shift+Ctrl+F9 Ctrl+F10

Shift+Ctrl+F11 Shift+F8 Shift+Ctrl+F10

Ctrl+T

Alt+Shift+Ctrl+T Alt+Ctrl+T

Shift+Ctrl+T

F1

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System Info Other Select Switch Selection Tools Other Text Insert Hyphen Point Size Up Point Size Down Font Size Step Up Font Size Step Down Kern Looser Kern Tighter Tracking Clear Tracking Spacing Uniform Type Highlight Font Highlight Font (Secondary) Left Align Text Center Text Right Align Text Justify Text Left Justify Text Center Justify Text Right Justify All Lines Toggle Auto Hyphenation Toggle Line Composer Other Object Lock Others Hide Others Repeat Pathfinder Average & Join Isolate Selected Object Exit Isolation Mode Other Panel Alt+Shift+Ctrl+2 Alt+Shift+Ctrl+3 Ctrl+4 Alt+Shift+Ctrl+J Shift+Ctrl+F Alt+Shift+Ctrl+H Alt+Shift+Ctrl+C Shift+Ctrl+Shift+Ctrl+. Shift+Ctrl+, Alt+Shift+Ctrl+. Alt+Shift+Ctrl+, Shift+Ctrl+] Shift+Ctrl+[ Alt+Ctrl+K Alt+Ctrl+Q Alt+Shift+Ctrl+O Shift+Ctrl+X Alt+Shift+Ctrl+F Alt+Shift+Ctrl+M Shift+Ctrl+L Shift+Ctrl+C Shift+Ctrl+R Shift+Ctrl+J Alt+Ctrl+Tab

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New Symbol Show Color Panel (Secondary) Actions Batch Add New Fill Add New Stroke New Graphic Style New Layer New Layer with Dialog Update Link Navigator Options New Swatch Other Misc Switch Units New File (No Dialog) Close All Help (Secondary) Undo (Secondary) Cut (Secondary) Copy (Secondary) Paste (Secondary) Debug Panel Navigate to Next Document Navigate to Previous Document Navigate to Next Document Group Navigate to Previous Document Group

F8

Ctrl+/ Alt+Ctrl+/

Ctrl+L Alt+Ctrl+L

Alt+Shift+Ctrl+U Alt+Ctrl+N Alt+Ctrl+W

F2 F3 F4 Alt+Shift+Ctrl+F12 Ctrl+F6 Shift+Ctrl+F6 Alt+Ctrl+F6 Alt+Shift+Ctrl+F6

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