Adobe Acrobat Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and macOS
Essential Adobe Acrobat keyboard shortcuts for Windows and macOS to navigate Adobe Acrobat like a pro. Do you want more control over your online documents? For many, Adobe Acrobat Reader remains the default PDF viewer. However, the software does much more than just display documents. It also includes the option to sign, comment on, or print PDFs.
Adobe Acrobat Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and macOS
To quickly explore the full offerings of Adobe Acrobat for PDFs, we’ve compiled the most useful shortcuts into an article. However, before using these, if you want to use single-key shortcuts, you’ll need to enable them. Open Acrobat Reader’s Preferences > General > select Use Single-Key Accelerators To Access Tools option.
Action
Shortcut for macOS
Shortcut for Windows
Hand Tool
H
H
Select Tool
V
V
Marquee Zoom Tool
Z
Z
Temporarily select Dynamic Zoom (when Marquee Zoom tool is selected)
Shift
Shift
Temporarily select zoom out (when Marquee Zoom tool is selected)
Option
Ctrl
Temporarily select zoom in (when Marquee Zoom tool is selected)
Selection Tools Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Acrobat
Move to next comment or form field
Tab
Tab
Move to the previous comment or form field
Shift + Tab
Shift + Tab
Add a checkmark in the comments line (for selected comment)
Shift + K
Shift + K
Open pop-up note for comment with focus
Return
Enter
Reply to comment with focus
R
R
Close or exit pop-up/text field for comment with focus
Esc
Esc
Comments Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Acrobat
Next Screen
Page Down or Return
Page Down or Enter
Previous Screen
Page Up or Shift + Return
Page Up or Shift + Enter
Last Page
End or Shift + Cmd + Down Arrow
End or Shift + Ctrl + Down Arrow
First Page
Home or Shift + Cmd + Up Arrow
Home or Shift + Ctrl + Up Arrow
Next Page
Right arrow or Cmd + Page Down
Right arrow or Ctrl + Page Down
Previous Page
Left arrow or Cmd + Page Up
Left arrow or Ctrl + Page Up
Go to Page
Shift + Cmd + N
Shift + Ctrl + N
Scroll Up
Up arrow
Up arrow
Scroll Down
Down arrow
Down arrow
Zoom In
Cmd + equal sign
Ctrl + equal sign
Zoom Out
Cmd + hypen
Ctrl + hypen
Find (in document)
Cmd + F
Ctrl + F
Move to next search result
Cmd + G
F3 or Ctrl + G
Go to previous search result
Shift + Cmd + G
Shift + F3 or Ctrl + Shift + G
Navigating and Readability Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Acrobat
Change reading settings for document
Shift + Cmd + 5
Shift + Ctrl + 5
Activate/deactivate read out loud
Shift + Cmd + Y
Shift + Ctrl + Y
Read current page only
Shift + Cmd + V
Shift + Ctrl + V
Read from the current page to the end of the document
Shift + Cmd +
Shift + Ctrl + B
Pause reading out loud
Shift + Cmd + C
Shift + Ctrl + C
Stop reading out loud
Shift + Cmd + E
Shift + Ctrl + E
Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Acrobat
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