Keys for formatting type – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual

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USING PHOTOSHOP CS4

Keyboard shortcuts

Last updated 1/10/2010

Keys for formatting type

This is not a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. This table lists only those shortcuts that are not displayed in menu
commands or tool tips.

Result

Windows

Mac

Move type in image

Control-drag type when Type layer is
selected

Command-drag type when Type layer is
selected

Select 1 character left/right or 1 line
down/up, or 1 word left/right

Shift + Left Arrow/Right Arrow or Down
Arrow/Up Arrow, or Control + Shift + Left
Arrow/Right Arrow

Shift + Left Arrow/Right Arrow or Down
Arrow/Up Arrow, or Command + Shift + Left
Arrow/Right Arrow

Select characters from insertion point to
mouse click point

Shift-click

Move 1 character left/right, 1 line down/up,
or 1 word left/right

Left Arrow/Right Arrow, Down Arrow/Up
Arrow, or Control + Left Arrow/Right Arrow

Left Arrow/Right Arrow, Down Arrow/Up
Arrow, or Command + Left Arrow/Right
Arrow

Create a new text layer, when a text layer is
selected in the Layers panel

Shift-click

Select a word, line, paragraph, or story

Double-click, triple-click, quadruple-click, or
quintuple-click

Show/Hide selection on selected type

Control + H

Command + H

Display the bounding box for transforming
text when editing text, or activate Move
tool if cursor is inside the bounding box

Control

Command

Scale text within a bounding box when
resizing the bounding box

Control-drag a bounding box handle

Command-drag a bounding box handle

Move text box while creating text box

Spacebar-drag

Result

Windows

Mac

Align left, center, or right

Horizontal Type tool + Control + Shift + L, C,
or R

Horizontal Type tool + Command + Shift +
L, C, or R

Align top, center, or bottom

Vertical Type tool + Control + Shift + L, C, or
R

Vertical Type tool + Command + Shift + L, C,
or R

Choose 100% horizontal scale

Control + Shift + X

Command + Shift + X

Choose 100% vertical scale

Control + Shift + Alt + X

Command + Shift + Option + X

Choose Auto leading

Control + Shift + Alt + A

Command + Shift + Option + A

Choose 0 for tracking

Control + Shift + Q

Command + Control + Shift + Q

Justify paragraph, left aligns last line

Control + Shift + J

Command + Shift + J

Justify paragraph, justifies all

Control + Shift + F

Command + Shift + F

Toggle paragraph hyphenation on/off

Control + Shift + Alt + H

Command + Control + Shift + Option + H

Toggle single/every-line composer on/off

Control + Shift + Alt + T

Command + Shift + Option + T

Decrease or increase type size of selected
text 2 points or pixels

Control + Shift + < or

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Command + Shift + < or

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