Some editing actions within Drupal's rich text editor can be performed more efficiently with keyboard shortcuts. You may find these keystroke combinations useful to remember:
Writing
- Enter (Return) – ends a paragraph and starts a new one.
- Shift+Enter – adds a line break.
- Backspace, Del – deletes a character.
- Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Del – deletes a word.
Undo and Redo
- Ctrl+Z – performs the undo operation.
- Ctrl+Y – performs the redo operation.
Cut, Copy and Paste
- Ctrl+X, Shift+Del – cuts a text fragment to clipboard.
- Ctrl+C – copies a text fragment to clipboard.
- Ctrl+V, Shift+Insert – pastes a text fragment from clipboard.
- Ctrl+Shift+V – pastes a text fragment from clipboard without formatting.
Text Selection
- Ctrl+A – selects all document contents.
Text Styling
- Ctrl+B – applies bold formatting to a text fragment.
- Ctrl+I – applies italics formatting to a text fragment.
Rich Text
- Ctrl+L – opens the Link dialog window.
More keyboard shortcuts are described in the CKEditor 3.x Keyboard Shortcuts.