#522 – Keyboard Shortcuts in Blend

Blend provides keyboard shortcuts for a number of common operations.  Here is a list of some usefule keyboard shortcuts.

Shortcuts for Design mode on Artboard

• V – Selection tool
• A – Direct Selection tool
• H – Pan tool
• Z – Zoom tool
• O – Camera Orbit tool
• I – Eyedropper tool
• F – Paint Bucket tool
• G – Gradient tool
• B – Brush Transform tool
• P – Pen tool
• Y – Pencil tool
• M – Rectangle tool
• L – Ellipse tool
• \ – Line tool
• T – Insert currently selected text or label control: TextBlock, TextBox, RichTextBox, PasswordBox, Label or FlowDocumentScrollViewer

Shortcuts for working with objects on Artboard

• Ctrl+C – Copy
• Ctrl+X – Cut
• Ctrl+V – Paste
• Ctrl+Z – Undo
• DELETE – Delete
• ALT+drag object – duplicate an object
• Ctrl+G – Group objects into panel
• Ctrl+left click – Select multiple objects

Other Artboard shortcuts

• Space+Left mouse drag – Pan artboard
• Ctrl+= – Zoom in (+)
• Ctrl+- – Zoom out (-)
• Ctrl+0 – Zoom to fit entire window
• Ctrl+1 – Zoom to 100%
• Ctrl+9 – Zoom to fit selected