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Keyboard Shortcuts in Rundown

learn keyboard shortcuts for formatting, row management, copy/paste, and show tracking

Written by John Alexander
Updated this week

Rundown supports keyboard shortcuts to help you work faster. Shortcuts are active whenever you're not editing a cell as soon as you click into a cell to type, shortcuts pause until you exit that cell.


Text Formatting

Apply formatting to selected cell content:

Mac

Windows / Linux

Action

⌘ B

Ctrl + B

Bold

⌘ I

Ctrl + I

Italic

⌘ U

Ctrl + U

Underline


Edit History

Mac

Windows / Linux

Action

⌘ Z

Ctrl + Z

Undo

⌘ Shift Z

Ctrl + Shift + Z

Redo


Copy, Cut & Paste

These shortcuts are context-aware. If you have rows selected (and no individual cells selected), they operate on entire rows. Otherwise they operate on the selected cell content.

Mac

Windows / Linux

Action

⌘ C

Ctrl + C

Copy rows or cells

⌘ X

Ctrl + X

Cut rows or cells

⌘ V

Ctrl + V

Paste rows or cells


Row Management

Mac

Windows / Linux

Action

⌘ D

Ctrl + D

Duplicate selected row(s)

⌘ Shift ↑

Ctrl + Shift + ↑

Insert row above (requires exactly 1 row selected)

⌘ Shift ↓

Ctrl + Shift + ↓

Insert row below (requires exactly 1 row selected)

⌘ Shift ⌫

Ctrl + Shift + Backspace

Archive / delete selected row(s)


Show Tracking

These shortcuts advance or rewind the tracked row during a live show. A row must already be tracked for these to work.

Mac & Windows

Action

Space

Advance tracking to the next row

Shift + Space

Go back to the previous row

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