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Sanity Studio keyboard shortcuts

A comprehensive reference guide to keyboard shortcuts available in Sanity Studio for faster navigation and editing.

Sanity Studio includes keyboard shortcuts to help you work more efficiently. These shortcuts provide quick access to common actions like navigation, document editing, and tool-specific features.

  • The ⌘ symbol represents the Command key on Mac.
  • Ctrl represents the Control key on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Global navigation

These shortcuts work throughout Sanity Studio regardless of which tool or document you're working in.

  • Open global search: ⌘+K (Mac) / Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux)
  • Close search or dialogs (when active): Escape
  • Confirm input in location and URL fields: Enter

Document actions

Use these shortcuts when working with documents in the Structure tool.

  • Delete document: Ctrl+Option+D (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+D (Windows/Linux)
  • Inspect document: Ctrl+Option+I (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+I (Windows/Linux)
  • Save document: ⌘+S (Mac) / Ctrl+S (Windows/Linux) Note: Documents are automatically saved as you edit them. You do not need to save them manually.

Portable Text Editor

These shortcuts are available when editing rich text content in Portable Text fields.

Basic formatting

  • Toggle bold: ⌘+B (Mac) / Ctrl+B (Windows/Linux)
  • Toggle italic: ⌘+I (Mac) / Ctrl+I (Windows/Linux)
  • Toggle underline: ⌘+U (Mac) / Ctrl+U (Windows/Linux)
  • Toggle inline code formatting: ⌘+' (Mac) / Ctrl+' (Windows/Linux)
  • Toggle fullscreen mode: ⌘+Enter (Mac) / Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux)

You can also use a variety of text-based shortcut behaviors. See the Portable Text Editor configuration documentation for more details.

Vision tool (GROQ Playground)

  • Execute GROQ query: ⌘+Enter: (Mac) / Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux)

Presentation tool (Visual Editing)

  • Toggle visual editing overlay: Hold Option (Mac) / Alt (Windows/Linux)

Shopify plugin

If you have the Shopify plugin installed, these additional shortcuts are available.

  • Shopify delete action: Ctrl+Option+D (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+D (Windows/Linux)
  • Shopify link action: Ctrl+Option+E (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+E (Windows/Linux)

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