Keyboard navigation and shortcuts in Qlik Sense
To help accessibility, Qlik Sense supports keyboard navigation for the hub, the app overview page, the Qlik Sense toolbar, and within sheet view. Qlik Sense also provides a range of keyboard shortcuts to help you interact easily with Qlik Sense and help you explore your apps.
When navigating Qlik Sense with the keyboard, the center of focus is highlighted. You can use keyboard navigation to interact with the object and settings within the app overview page as well as the objects and menus in the Qlik Sense toolbar. Within sheet view, you can use keyboard navigation is to interact with visualizations in your sheets.
For more information on the options in the app overview page and in the Qlik Sense toolbar, see Navigating in the user interface.
Keyboard navigation in the hub
Keyboard navigation |
Action |
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Tab |
Moves focus forward . While in an active menu, Tab will cycle between the menu options. |
Shift + Tab | Moves focus back. |
Ctrl + G | Switches to grid layout. |
Ctrl + Shift + L | Switches to list layout. |
Left + right arrows | Shifts through a horizontal list in focus, such as grid view. |
Up + down arrows | Shifts through a vertical list in focus, such as list view. |
Enter or Space | Selects or enters the item in focus. |
Ctrl + up arrow | Navigates to first item in list. |
Ctrl + down arrow | Navigates to last item in list. |
Alt + N | Opens Create new app dialog. |
Ctrl + Delete | Opens Delete confirmation dialog for app in focus. |
Shift + F10 | Opens context menu for app in focus. |
Esc | Closes a dialog or context menu. |
Up + down arrows | Shifts focus between app thumbnail and app detail in a focused app in grid view. |
Keyboard navigation in the app overview and toolbar
Keyboard navigation |
Action |
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Tab |
Moves focus forward. While in an active menu, Tab will cycle between the menu options. If a sheet is open, Tab will also move focus to the sheet. |
Shift+Tab |
Moves focus back . While in an active menu , Shift+Tab will cycle between the menu options. If a sheet is open, Tab will also move focus to the sheet. |
Enter or Space |
Opens current focus. |
Esc |
Closes an open menu. |
Right arrow |
Navigates to the next sheet or story on the app overview page. |
Left arrow |
Navigates to the previous sheet or story on the app overview page. |
Up arrow | Navigates to the next bookmark on the app overview page. |
Down arrow | Navigates to the previous bookmark on the app overview page. |
Ctrl + G | Switches to grid layout. |
Ctrl + Shift + L | Switches to list layout. |
Ctrl + up | Navigates to first item in list. |
Ctrl + down | Navigates to last item in list. |
Keyboard navigation in sheet view
You can use keyboard navigation to interact with visualizations in your sheets, access options in visualization context menus, and export visualization data with Export data.
Keyboard navigation in sheet view
Keyboard navigation |
Action |
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Tab |
Moves focus forward between items in the toolbar and the visualizations in the sheet. While in an active menu, Tab will cycle between the menu options. |
Shift+Tab |
Move focus backward between items in the toolbar and the visualizations in the sheet.. While in an active menu , Shift+Tab will cycle between the menu options. |
Ctrl + Right arrow |
Navigates to the next sheet. |
Ctrl + Left arrow |
Navigates to the previous sheet. |
Ctrl+Home Ctrl+Fn+Left (Mac OS) |
Navigates to the first sheet of the app. |
Ctrl+End Ctrl+Fn+Right (Mac OS) |
Navigates to the last sheet of the app. |
Right arrow | Navigates to the next visualization in the row. |
Left arrow | Navigates to the previous visualization object in the row. |
Up arrow | Navigate to the visualization in the row above. |
Down arrow | Navigate to the visualization in the row below. |
Ctrl+up arrow | Navigate to the first visualization in the sheet. |
Ctrl+down arrow | Navigate to the last visualization in the sheet. |
Space bar | Opens the current visualization in full screen. |
Shift + F10 Alt + Shift + F10 (Internet Explorer 11) FN + Shift + F10 (Mac OS) |
Opens the context menu for the selected visualization. Information noteIf Shift + F10 does not work in your browser, use Alt + Shift + F10.
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Ctlr + E | Toggles sheet edit on/off. |
Keyboard navigation in visualization context menus
Keyboard navigation |
Action |
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Tab | Moves focus from the sheet to the context menu. |
Esc | Close the context menu. |
Down arrow | Navigate the focus to the next item in the context menu. |
Up arrow | Navigate the focus to the previous item in the context menu. |
Right arrow | Open an item's sub-menu. |
Left arrow | Close an item's sub-menu. |
Enter/Return | Performs the action for the focused item. |
Keyboard navigation in the visualization Export data dialog
Keyboard navigation |
Action |
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Tab | Move the focus forward. |
Shift+Tab | Move the focus backward |
Esc | Close the export dialog. |
Enter/Return | Performs the action for the focused item. |
Keyboard navigation in the selection bar
Keyboard navigation |
Action |
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Ctrl+Shift+Z | Step back in the selection history. |
Ctrl+Shift+Y | Step forward in the selection history. |
Keyboard shortcuts
For keyboard shortcuts specific to the data load editor, see Keyboard shortcuts in the Data load editor.
For keyboard shortcuts specific to smart search, see Keyboard shortcuts used in smart search.
For keyboard shortcuts specific to QMC, see Keyboard shortcuts in QMC.
Shortcut | Action | Supported in Qlik Sense | Supported in Qlik Sense Desktop |
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Ctrl+P | Prints the current view or active sheet/story. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+C | Copies the selected item to the clipboard. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+X | Cuts the selected item and copies it to the clipboard. When using the Google Chrome browser: if the cursor is put in front of a row in the data load editor or in the expression editor, without selecting anything, the entire row is cut. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+V | Pastes the most-recently copied item from the clipboard. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+Z | Undo action. Repeat to undo earlier actions. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+Y (Cmd+shift+Z for Mac OS) | Redo actions. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+H |
Opens online help in the context of the current function. Information note
Data load editor and expression editor only. |
Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+F | Opens smart search. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+E | In sheet view, opens and closes the editing of the selected sheet. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+S | Saves changes to the app. |
No (changes are automatically saved) Ctrl+S saves changes in the data load editor |
Yes |
Ctrl+O | Opens an app file copied to the clipboard using Ctrl+C. | No | Yes |
Ctrl+A |
Selects all code. Information note
Data load editor and expression editor only. |
Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+D |
Deletes the content of the current line. Information note
Data load editor and expression editor only. |
Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+K | Comments or uncomments the selected lines in the data load editor. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+00 | Inserts a test script in the data load editor. | Yes | Yes |
Tab | Indents code in the data load editor. | Yes | Yes |
Shift+Tab | Outdents code in the data load editor. | Yes | Yes |
Left arrow | Navigates to the previous slide in storytelling view. | Yes | Yes |
Right arrow | Navigates to the next slide in storytelling view. | Yes | Yes |
Up arrow | Scrolls up in a table. | Yes | Yes |
Down arrow | Scrolls down in a table. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+left arrow | Navigates to the previous sheet in sheet view. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+right arrow | Navigates to the next sheet in sheet view. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+Home Ctrl+Fn+Left (Mac OS) |
Navigates to the first sheet of the app in sheet view. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+End Ctrl+Fn+Right (Mac OS) |
Navigates to the last sheet of the app in sheet view. | Yes | Yes |
Esc |
Exits play mode in storytelling view. Deselects a visualization when editing in sheet view. Deselects an object. Undoes selections in a visualization. Closes a dialog or window. |
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes |
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes |
Delete | Deletes selected item. | Yes | Yes |
Backspace | Deletes selected item. | Yes | Yes |
Enter/Return | Performs the action for the active option or button (for example, in dialogs). | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl++ | Zoom in. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+- | Zoom out. | Yes | Yes |
Ctrl+0 | Reset zooming. | Yes | Yes |
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