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title: Google Drive Offers More Shortcuts than a GPS - Succurri
description: Google’s online solutions offer a wide range of shortcuts. Check out the various shortcuts available in Google Drive to boost your efficiency. Learn more
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# [Google Drive Offers More Shortcuts than a GPS - Succurri](https://succurri.com/blog/google-drive-offers-more-shortcuts-than-a-gps)

 Written by [Andrew Eckstrom](https://succurri.com/blog/author/andrew-eckstrom) | Sep 14, 2023 11:52:55 AM

Google has an assortment of solutions available on the Internet. Chances are, your business uses some of them. However, they probably aren’t using them as efficiently as they could. Google’s online solutions have a huge assortment of shortcuts available for each. Today, we’ll go over a few of them.

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## Google Drive

- To select (or deselect) items, press **x**.
- To select all visible items, press **Shift + a**. To clear your selection of visible items, press **Shift + n**.
- You can open an item you have selected by pressing **Enter** or **o** or rename it by pressing n.
- To move items, you have selected to a new folder, press **z**, and to “star” / “unstar” them, press **s**.
- You can also create new items with a shortcut: 
    - Folder – **Shift + f**
    - Document – **Shift + t**
    - Spreadsheet – **Shift + s**
    - Presentation – **Shift + p**

## Google Docs

- To insert or edit a link, press **Ctrl + k**, and to open a link, press **Alt + Enter.**
- To type with a strikethrough in your text, type **Alt + Shift + 5**.
- To format your text as a superscript, press **Ctrl +**.
- To format as a subscript, press **Ctrl –**.
- You can insert a footnote by pressing **Ctrl + Alt + f**.

## Google Sheets

- To select all the contents in one column, press **Ctrl + Space**. For one row, press **Shift + Space**.
- Applying an outer border to your selected cells is simple: just press either **Alt + Shift + 7**, or **Ctrl + Shift + 7**.
- To clear the formatting within a selection, press **Ctrl + \\**.
- Flipping between sheets can be done by pressing **Ctrl + Page Up** (for the previous sheet)**/Page Down** (for next sheet).
- To see a list of formulas, press **Ctrl + ~**.

## Google Slides

- To duplicate a slide or object, press **Ctrl + d**.
- You can move from slide-to-slide in the filmstrip using either the **Page Up/Down** buttons or the **Up/Down** arrow keys.
- Moving over to the filmstrip is as easy as pressing **Ctrl + Alt + Shift + f**, while moving back to the canvas can be accomplished using **Ctrl + Alt + Shift + c**.
- Rotating objects can be done by one degree if you press **Alt + Shift + Left/Right Arrow**, and by fifteen degrees by pressing **Alt + Left/Right Arrow**.

Using these shortcuts should help you to be more efficient. Now, don’t worry if you can’t quite remember all of them, as well as the many not mentioned here. There are really just one that you have to remember. This is because Google provides a list of all the available shortcuts with each app.

- In Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, press** Ctrl + / **to** pull up the shortcut cheat sheet for the app you’re using**.

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