Adobe CQ5 Keyboard Shortcuts for Authoring

Location Shortcut Description

Websites ConsoleShift-Double-Click(on required page)

Open page in new window.Note: this is operational if the User Properties are set to Single Window; if Multiple Windows then this is the default behavior.

Content Window (Edit Mode) - Paragraphs

Shift-Click Select multiple paragraphs.

Ctrl-Click Select multiple paragraphs.

Ctrl-C Copy selected paragraph(s).

Ctrl-XCut selected paragraph(s).Note: The cut paragraph will not disappear until it has been pasted to the new location.

Ctrl-V Paste paragraphs from clipboard.

Alt-Ctrl-V Paste as reference.

Del Delete selected paragraph(s).

Backspace Delete selected paragraph(s).

Alt-right-click Force default (browser) context menu.

Rich Text Editor Ctrl-B Bold

Ctrl-I Italic

Ctrl-U Underline

Page with a teaser component. Ctrl-Alt-cShows the clickstream cloud: collection of page tags related to clicks that the user has made and used to focus the teaser.

Content Finder - Search box down-arrow

Trigger a suggestions list. Needed when too few characters have been entered to trigger the list automatically (this happens when 2 or more characters have been entered).

right-arrow (on a suggested path)

Select item and trigger suggestions for the selected path.

left-arrow (on a suggested path)

Select item and trigger suggestions for its ancestors (as in siblings of parent).

Enter (on a suggested path)

Select item and trigger search.

Esc Close suggestions layer.

Drag assets, drop on destination

Alt+dragThe drop action produces a new paragraph; instead of replacing the asset in the destination.

Adobe CQ5 Keyboard Shortcuts for Development

Location Shortcut Description

Page

Ctrl-Shift-U with ?debugClientLibs=true set in the URL.

To see timing statistics for page loading.