If you frequently use Google’s productivity web app tools, learning and using shortcut keys can save you a lot of time using the app, allowing you to complete tasks more easily and quickly. Now, Google is making some changes to the shortcut keys. Although some combinations are more difficult to press, overall from the user’s point of view, the new changes are obviously reasonable. This time we help you sort out a series of new shortcut keys for Google Drive, hoping to make you even more powerful.
Google Drive now has a new set of shortcut keys
Google has launched an improved set of shortcuts for the web version of Drive, and the new set of shortcuts currently being rolled out to users are actually very similar to the original shortcuts. The difference between the shortcut keys and the new shortcut keys is that you now need to hold down the modifier key (Alt on Windows, Option on macOS) when entering the shortcut key. The other shortcut keys are slightly different, but the main idea is that they no longer start with a letter key, but with a modifier or function key.
All of these changes were made to enable initial navigation. If you want to highlight items in Google Drive that start with a specific letter, just enter that letter. The full list of modified shortcuts is as follows:
| category | Quick use | Windows / ChromeOS | macOS |
| Navigation and Views | Toggle navigation panel (presented as folders) |
Alt + G then N |
Option + G then N Option + G then F |
| Switch project view | Alt + G then I |
Option + G then I |
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| Switch between lists and folders in project view | Alt + V then I | Option + V then I | |
| Go to page content | Alt + G then C | Option + G then C | |
| Go to details pane | Alt + G then D | Option + G then D | |
| Go to the top of the app (Google bar) | Alt + G then T | Option + G then T | |
| Go to download status | Alt + G then A | Option + G then A | |
| Go to upload status | Alt + G then U | Option + G then U | |
| Show or hide the check pane | Alt + V then E | Option + V then E | |
| Show or hide the details pane | Alt + V then D | Option + V then D | |
| Show or hide the activity pane | Alt + V then A | Option + V then A | |
| Select item | Select or deselect items | Shift + Spacebar | Shift + Spacebar |
| Select next item | down arrow | down arrow | |
| Select previous item | up arrow |
up arrow |
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| Select the next item on the left | left arrow | left arrow | |
| Select the next item on the right | right arrow | right arrow | |
| Expand selection downwards | Shift + Down Arrow | Shift + Down Arrow | |
| Expand selection upwards | Shift + Up Arrow | Shift + Up Arrow | |
| Expand selection to the left | Shift + Left Arrow | Shift + Left Arrow | |
| Expand selection to the right | Shift + Right Arrow | Shift + Right Arrow | |
| Select all visible items | Ctrl + A | Ctrl + A | |
| Deselect all selections | ESC | ESC | |
| Move between projects | Move down without changing selection | Ctrl + Down Arrow | Command + Down Arrow |
| Move up without changing selection | Ctrl + Up Arrow | Command + Up Arrow | |
| Move left without changing selection | Ctrl + left arrow | Command + Left Arrow | |
| Move right without changing selection | Ctrl + right arrow | Command + Right Arrow | |
| Take action on selected items | Open selected item | Ctrl + Enter | Command + Enter |
| Rename selected items | F2 | F2 | |
| Share selected items | Ctrl + Alt + A | Command + Option + A | |
| Move selected items to new folder | Ctrl + Alt + M | Command + Option + M | |
| Add/unstar selected items | Ctrl + Alt + S | Command + Option + S | |
| Create a shortcut for selected items | Ctrl + Alt + R | Command + Option + R | |
| Delete selected items | Delet or # | Delet or # | |
| Copy selected item URL to clipboard | Ctrl + Alt + I | Command + Shift + I | |
| Copy selected item title to clipboard | Ctrl + Alt + C | Command + Shift + C | |
| Cut selected items to clipboard | Ctrl + X | Command + X | |
| Paste an item from the clipboard as a shortcut | Ctrl + Alt + V | Command + Shift + V | |
| Paste or move selected items from the clipboard | Ctrl + V | Command + V | |
| Redo the last undone operation | Ctrl + Y | Command+ Y | |
| Upload files | Alt + C then U | Control + C then U | |
| Upload folder | Alt + C then I | Control + C then I | |
| Create new project | Create new file | Alt + C then T | Control + C then T |
| Create new presentation | Alt + C then P | Control + C then P | |
| Create new spreadsheet | Alt + C then S | Control + C then S | |
| Create new drawing | Alt + C then D | Control + C then D | |
| Create new folder | Alt + C then F | Control + C then F | |
| Create new form | Alt + C then O | Control+C then O | |
| Open menu | Add new menu | Alt + N | Control + N |
| More action menus | Shift + F10 Alt + A |
Shift + F10 Control + A |
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| Current folder operation menu | Alt + Shift + A | Control + Shift + A | |
| sort menu | Alt + R | Control +R | |
| Settings menu | Ctrl + Shift + S | Command + Shift + S | |
| Application operations | Show shortcut list | Ctrl + / | Command + / |
| Toggle view arrangement visual density | Alt + T then Q | Control + T then Q | |
| Find / Find next | Ctrl + F | Command + F | |
| Ctrl + P | Command + P | ||
| Undo last operation | Ctrl + Z | Command + Z | |
| Redo the last undone operation | Ctrl + Y | Command + Y | |
| Show last message | Alt + G then K | Option + G then K | |
| Search in Drive | / | / | |
| Preview mode operation | Preview project | Ctrl + Alt + P | Command + Option + P |
| Close preview | Esc | Esc | |
| play/pause | space key | space key | |
| enlarge | + / = | + / = | |
| zoom out | – | – |
Google should automatically switch between the old and new version of shortcut keys for each user before August 1. If you can’t wait to use it immediately, you can go to Cloud Drive >> Settings >> Keyboard Shortcuts to update to the latest version immediately.
Source: KOCPC Chinese