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monday.com Shortcuts

 

 

Hate scrolling up and down to find an item? Us too! Wish there was a quicker way to navigate around your board? We get it! That's why we came up with keyboard shortcuts and spreadsheet capabilities to make your use of monday.com as efficient as can be. 🙌 

 

Accessing the shortcut menu

You can access our keyboard shortcut menu within your monday.com account. To locate it, click on your profile picture located in the upper right corner of your screen and select "Shortcuts":

Image of a main table. In the top right corner, the profile photo is selected. In the menu, the word shortcuts is selected.

Tip: You can also press "Shift ?" on your keyboard to open up the keyboard shortcut menu.

 

When opening the keyboard shortcuts menu (cheat sheet), you'll notice that the keyboard shortcuts are split into two categories: System navigation (allowing you to navigate within your account) and, below that, Board navigation (allowing you to navigate within a board). 

Image of a main table. The shortcut menu is open displaying a list of the keyboard shortcuts.

 

List of all shortcuts

Have a little scroll through this list to discover all of the shortcuts we offer! 👇

  Mac PC
Quick Search Command + B Ctrl + B
Close Item Page Esc Esc
Close Dialogs Esc Esc
Close Search Esc Esc
Open/Close Navigation Command + . Ctrl + .
Navigate Down down arrow key down arrow key
Navigate Up up arrow key up arrow key
Navigate Left left arrow key left arrow key
Navigate Right right arrow key right arrow key
Navigate to Next Cell Tab Tab
Navigate to Previous Cell Shift + Tab Shift + Tab
Edit Cell Content Return Enter
Clear Cell Content Delete Backspace
Open Column View Space Space
Search Board Command + F Ctrl + F
Copy Cell Content Command + C Ctrl + C
Paste Cell Content Command + V Ctrl + V
Cut Cell Content Command + X Ctrl + X
Select Item Command + Return Ctrl + Enter
Select Range of Items Shift + Return Shift + Enter
Create New Group Command + Shift + G Ctrl + Shift + G
Create New Column Command + Shift + C Ctrl + Shift + C
Open Activity Log Command + Shift + L Ctrl + Shift + L
Sort Another Column Command + Left Click Ctrl + Left Click
Export to Excel Command + Shift + E Ctrl + Shift + E
Collapse/Expand All Groups Ctrl + G Ctrl + G

 

Quick Search

The Quick Search allows you to quickly switch between boards, dashboards, workdocs, and more in your monday.com account. Use the keyboard shortcut "Command + B" on a Mac or "Ctrl + B" on a PC and then type the name of your desired board to switch between them as fast as lightning!  

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Batch Actions

Click on an item and then hold down "Shift" while clicking on an item lower in the list to select the range of items in between. This lets you move, archive, or delete the selected items all at once with batch actions!

A short GIF showing a user's mouse clicking the clickable checkbox to the left of an item in the main table. The user holds down the Shift key and clicks the clickable checkbox to the left of an item lower down in the main table. Ten items are selected at once.

 

We hope these shortcuts come in handy as you navigate monday.com!

 

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