# Keyboard shortcuts in Opera

One of Opera's greatest strengths is the host of keyboard shortcuts it provides. You will find you can browse a lot faster using the keyboard for things you do often.

Some operations have multiple shortcuts, so you can use the one most convenient for you.

Particularly popular or powerful features are marked with this color.

You can modify shortcuts from Shortcuts under Edit on the main menu.

## Standard functions

### General

Display context menu (same as clicking right mouse button) | Ctrl + M

### Special windows

Set your preferences | Alt + P
Quickly switch some of the frequently changed preferences | F12
Toggle Hotlist | F4
Access active bookmark folder | Ctrl + Alt + A
Show History window | Ctrl + Alt + H
Show History window in the background | Ctrl + Alt + Shift + H
Show Transfer window | Ctrl + Alt + T
Show "Links in frame" window | Ctrl + J

### Local computer

Open file on your computer | Ctrl + O
Save active page to your computer | Ctrl + S
Preview page printed on paper | P
Print active page on paper | Ctrl + P

## Page movement

One line up | Up
One line down | Down
One character to the right | Right
One character to the left | Left

One window up

- Page Up
- Shift + Space

One window down

- Page Down
- Space

One window to the left | Ctrl + Page Up
One window to the right | Ctrl + Page Down
Beginning of page | Home
End of page | End
End of document opera show mode (full screen) | Ctrl + End
Start of document opera show mode (full screen) | Ctrl + Home

## Navigation and display

### Basic navigation

Go to next page in history

- X
- Alt + Right

Go to previous page in history

- Z
- Alt + Left
- Backspace

Show menu with all next pages in history | Alt + X
Show menu with all previous pages in history | Alt + Z
Go to your pre-set home page | Ctrl + Space
Enter a Web page address to go to | F2
Quick entry of nickname of a bookmark | Shift + F2
Go to parent directory | Ctrl + Backspace

Replace current address with selected text (mouse clipboard)

- Alt + Backspace
- Ctrl + Alt + R

Open drop-down with typed in addresses | H

### Focus

Set focus to Web page address field | F8
Give focus to the search field | Shift + F8
Set focus to page, enabling keyboard navigation | F9
Restore address, set focus to page (when in address field) | Esc

### Forms

Next element in a form | Tab
Previous element in a form | Shift + Tab

Press form element

- Space
- Enter

Left-adjust text in form | Ctrl + L
Right-adjust text in form | Ctrl + R

### Loading and images

Reload active page

- F5
- Ctrl + R

Reload active frame | Alt + F5
Reload all open pages | Ctrl + F5
Load all images (if images are disabled) | Shift + G
Stop loading the active page | Esc
Toggle loading and display of images in the active page | G
Toggle between "Author mode" and "User mode" | Ctrl + G

### Page source

View page source | Ctrl + F3
View source of active frame | Alt + F3
Validate source of active page/frame | Ctrl + Alt + V
Validate source of active page/frame in the background | Ctrl + Alt + Shift + V

### Link and element navigation

Next link in a page

- A
- Ctrl + Down

Previous link in a page

- Q
- Ctrl + Up

Open link in current browser window

- Enter
- Space

Open link in new window in front of current

- Shift + Enter
- Shift + Space
- Shift + Space

Open link in new window in the background

- Ctrl + Shift + Enter
- Ctrl + Shift + Space

Add link to your bookmarks in the Hotlist | Ctrl + Shift + T
Copy link address | Ctrl + Shift + C
Save link target on your computer | Ctrl + Shift + S
Display menu for link (same as right mouse button) | Ctrl + L
Previous/next headers in page | W and S
Previous/next element in page | E and D
Next frame | 3

## Zooming

Some of the keys referred to here are on the numeric keypad on your keyboard. You need to enable them with `Num Lock` on your keyboard. This should be possible on most laptop computers also, but using for example `0` and `9` instead is recommended since laptop computers typically lack a separate numeric keypad.

Zoom in 10%

- 0
- Numeric +

Zoom out 10%

- 9
- Numeric -

Zoom in by 100%

- 8
- Ctrl + Numeric +

Zoom out by 100%

- 7
- Ctrl + Numeric -

Restore zoom to 100%

- 6
- Numeric *

## Search and edit

### Search

Search for text in currently viewed page | Ctrl + F
Find next instance of the searched entry | F3
Find previous instance of the searched entry | Shift + F3

### Edit

Undo | Ctrl + Z
Copy marked text | Ctrl + C
Cut marked text from text area | Ctrl + X
Paste in text from clipboard | Ctrl + V

Replace current address with selected text (mouse clipboard)

- Alt + Backspace
- Ctrl + Alt + R

Select all text | Ctrl + A

### Web search

Show web search dialog | Alt + Space

## Hotlist

### Activation

Toggle the Hotlist | F4
Toggle state of Hotlist (docked/floating) | Shift + F4
Show Hotlist with bookmarks tab active | Ctrl + Alt + B
Show Hotlist with contacts tab active | Ctrl + Alt + C
Activate the Hotlist for keyboard navigation | F7
Activate the Hotlist menu | Ctrl + M
Activate bookmark with keyboard focus on personal bar | Space

### Navigation

Jump between items in the Hotlist | Tab

Go to items starting with the corresponding letter/number

- A-Z
- 0-9

Cycle sort order on Hotlist "Title" column | Alt + 1
Cycle sort order on Hotlist "Visited" column | Alt + 2
Cycle sort order on Hotlist "Created" column | Alt + 3

### Management

Bookmark currently viewed Web page | Ctrl + T
Edit item properties | Alt + Enter
Cut item | Ctrl + X
Copy item | Ctrl + C
Paste item into active folder | Ctrl + V
Delete item | Delete
Select all items | Ctrl + A

## Window management

### Creation

Create a new browser window | Ctrl + N
Continue browsing in a duplicate of the current window | Ctrl + Shift + N

Close current window

- Ctrl + F4
- Ctrl + W

Close current page (SDI mode)

- Ctrl + F4

Close all open windows | Ctrl + Shift + W

### Switching

Show list of windows, cycle to previous | Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Show list of windows, cycle to next | Ctrl + Tab
Switch immediately to previous window | 1 Ctrl + Left
Switch immediately to next window | 2 Ctrl + Right

### Arrangement

Cascade windows | Shift + F5
Tile all windows horizontally to fill the workspace | F6
Tile all windows vertically to fill the workspace | Shift + F6

### Management

Minimize current window | 4
Restore/maximize current window | 5
Restore all windows | Ctrl + Shift + 3
Minimize all windows | Ctrl + Shift + 4
Maximize all windows | Ctrl + Shift + 5

### Bars

Toggle scroll bars | Ctrl + F7
Toggle address bar | Ctrl + F8
Toggle menu bar | Ctrl + F11

### Personal bar

Set focus to personal bar | Shift + F7

Navigate personal bar

- Tab
- Shift + Tab
- Cursor keys

Open bookmark on personal bar | Enter

### Window and page bar

Set focus to window bar or page bar | Alt + F7

### Embedded search bar

Set focus to embedded search bar | Ctrl + Alt + F

### Full screen mode

View page using entire screen

- F11
- Ctrl + Enter

Escape full screen mode

- F11
- Ctrl + Enter

Escape full screen mode (if not loading page) | Esc

## Help

Display help for Opera | F1
Display this Keyboard Shortcuts page | Ctrl + B
Find text in help | Ctrl + F

## More information

Learn more about using the keyboard

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