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Complete List of Google Drive Shortcut Keys [For Web Interface]

April 29, 2012 by Saqib Leave a Comment

Google Drive is launched just few days back. For those who are new to Google Drive, it is basically a cloud storage service offered by Google. It offers 5 GB of free storage space for storing files which be expanded by purchasing more space. Users can also download Google Drive for PC. The web interface of Google Drive offers several useful keyboard shortcuts. Let’s take a look at list of shortcut keys for Google Drive’s web interface.

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Before moving forward, note that below are the shortcut keys for Windows users. Mac OS users should replace Ctrl with Command key (or ‘Apple’ key), and Alt with the option key.

Complete List of Google Drive Shortcut Keys

Shortcut Keys Action
J Navigate to and highlight next item in list
K Navigate to and highlight previous item in list
X Select/unselect the highlighted item
Down arrow Select next item in list
Shift + Down arrow Select next item in list while leaving the current selection selected
Up arrow Select previous item in list
Shift + Up arrow Select previous item in list while leaving the current selection selected
Shift + A Select all
Shift + N Select none

Google Drive shortcuts for creating a new document

Shortcut Keys Action
Shift + T Create a new text document
Shift + P Create a new presentation
Shift + S Create a new spreadsheet
Shift + D Create a new drawing
Shift + C Create a new collection

Go to and navigation keys

Shortcut Keys Action
G then N Access navigation panel
G then L Access list of documents
G then C Access collections
G then D Access details pane

Open different menu shortcut keys in Google Drive

Shortcut Keys Action
C Show the create new menu, use arrow keys to select an item to create
U Show upload menu
A Show actions menu
R Show sort menu
V Show view menu

Organize, star open or share keys

Shortcut Keys Action
Z Organize
S Star/unstar
O or Enter Open item
. (period) Share

Application related

Shortcut Keys Action
/ Go to search box
D Show/hide details pane
? or Ctrl + / Access shortcuts help menu

This list of Google Drive (GDrive) keyboard shortcut keys can help in variety of different tasks. Try using some of these and you will see that they make performing different processes very easy. Navigation, creating new document, organizing, sharing, searching, all this and much more can be done easily by using shortcuts.

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