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.

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)	Cmd + Spacebar	Ctrl + Spacebar
Cycle Zoom Tools (Marquee, Dynamic, Loupe)	Shift + Z	Shift + Z
Sticky Note Tool	S	S
Stamp Tool	K	K
Current Highlighting Tool	U	U
Cycle Highlighting Tools (Highlighter, Underline Text, Cross-Out Text)	Shift + U	Shift + U
Current Drawing Markup Tool	D	D
Cycle Drawing Markup Tool (Cloud, Arrow, Line, Rectangle, Oval, Polygon Line, Polygon, Pencil, Eraser)	Shift + D	Shift + D
Cloud Tool	Q	Q
Text Box Tool	X	X
Present Stamp/Attach Tool	J	J
Cycle Stamp, Attach File, Record Audio Comment	Shift + J	Shift + J

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