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Shortcut Keys for Locating Character Formats

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Shift+F3- Change the case of letters
Ctrl+Shift+A- Format letters as all capitals
Ctrl+Shift+K- Format letters as small capitals
Ctrl+B- Apply bold formatting
Ctrl+I- Apply italic formatting
Ctrl+U- Apply an underline
Ctrl+=- Apply subscript formatting
Ctrl+Shift++- Apply superscript formatting
Ctrl+Shift+W- Word underline
Ctrl+Shift+D- Double-underline text
Ctrl+Shift+H- Apply hidden text formatting
Ctrl+spacebar- Remove character formatting

Add bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough to text in Pages on Mac Select the text you want to change. To change all of the text in a text box or table cell, select the text box or table cell. In the Format sidebar, click the Style button near the top. If you don't find a keyboard shortcut here that meets your needs, you can create a custom keyboard shortcut. For instructions, go to Create a custom keyboard shortcut for Office for Mac. Many of the shortcuts that use the Ctrl key on a Windows keyboard also work with the Control key in OneNote for Mac. However, not all do. But using keyboard shortcuts can help you do many things much faster on your Mac. You can control your system, work with documents, and navigate quicker and easier than you probably think. For a nice reference you can bookmark, here are 50 common keyboard shortcuts that all Mac users should know. Note: To see a complete list of keyboard shortcuts, open Google Docs and press ⌘ + / (Mac) or Ctrl + / (Windows, Chrome OS). Use ⌘ for Mac or Ctrl f or Windows, Chrome OS.

See also this tip in French:11 raccourcis clavier pour contrôler le format de police.

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Markdown shortcuts for snippets.

Mac Modify Keyboard Shortcut For Bold Text

The cool thing about snippets is that they can be setup to behave like a wizard and guide you to different parts for convenient editing. 🧙‍♂️

In the example above, when you insert a task list, you can tab through each task completing each part. For each task, first you are given options to check/uncheck (x or blank) that task, then you can enter the title. If you don't want to edit the snippet at all, or you are done early, just hit Enter and the snippet will be finalised. Easy-peasy! 🙌

The snippets are sourced from:

  • VS Code: Built-in snippets for the basic markdown syntax.
  • Markdown Snippets extension: Snippets for extended markdown syntax.

The Markdown Snippets extension is installed automatically along with this extension. Nothing extra is required from you ever! 🙂

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Shortcuts

NameShortcutPrefixDefined By
Insert bold textCtrl+b
Cmd+b (mac)		boldVS Code
Insert codeCtrl+m Ctrl+ccodeVS Code
Insert fenced code blockCtrl+m Ctrl+ffenced codeblockVS Code
Insert heading level 1Ctrl+m Ctrl+1heading1VS Code
Insert heading level 2Ctrl+m Ctrl+2heading2VS Code
Insert heading level 3Ctrl+m Ctrl+3heading3VS Code
Insert heading level 4Ctrl+m Ctrl+4heading4VS Code
Insert heading level 5Ctrl+m Ctrl+5heading5VS Code
Insert heading level 6Ctrl+m Ctrl+6heading6VS Code
Insert horizontal ruleCtrl+m Ctrl+hhorizontal ruleVS Code
Insert imageCtrl+m Ctrl+iimageVS Code
Insert italic textCtrl+i
Cmd+i (mac)		italicVS Code
Insert linkCtrl+m Ctrl+llinkVS Code
Insert ordered listCtrl+m Ctrl+oordered listVS Code
Insert unordered listCtrl+m Ctrl+uunordered listVS Code
Insert quoted textCtrl+m Ctrl+qquoteVS Code
Insert strikethroughCtrl+m Ctrl+sstrikethroughVS Code
Insert tableCtrl+m Ctrl+ttableMarkdown Snippet Extension
Insert task listCtrl+m Ctrl+xtask listMarkdown Snippet Extension

None of these shortcuts are used by default in VS Code with the exception of Ctrl+b. This shortcut is used to 'show the sidebar', if you are not editing a markdown file, it will still do this. This may not be to your liking, you are free to assign a different shortcut for it, or others if you wish!

Rationale

I chose these particular shortcuts because:

  1. 'Ctrl plus one key' combinations are mostly used already.
  2. 'Ctrl+Shift plus one additional key' combinations are mostly used already.
  3. I wanted to find a consistent and predictable pattern, so opted for combinations that have the same opening sequence.
  4. I made an exception for 'insert bold' and 'insert italic' as most text editors have ctrl+b and ctrl+i as the shortcuts for these actions, so I thought it best to do the same.

How to change the shortcuts

Unfortunately, VS Code does not show enough information for shortcuts to make it easy to identify your shortcuts easily. You need to know the current keybinding to find what you are looking.

If you want to change the shortcuts for the snippets, you can open the keyboard shortcuts settings, you will find the correct set of shortcuts if you search for 'insert snippet', it is all the items where the when clause has the condition of !editorReadonly && editorTextFocus && editorLangId markdown.

Keyboard Shortcuts Mac Word

There is an open issue to improve the keyboard shortcuts settings UI. Hopefully, this will happen soon, you can give the issue a 👍 to indicate your interest in the implementation of a solution.

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Mac Modify Keyboard Shortcut For Bold Text Editor

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