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Animate keyboard shortcuts

Last updated on May 24, 2023

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Action	Mac	Windows
Show/Hide Library	+	+
Comment selection	+	+
Toggle between Edit Movie and Edit Symbol Mode	+	+
Show/Hide Timeline	+ +	+ +

Action	Mac	Windows
Group	+	+
Ungroup	++	+ +
Break Apart	+	+
Paste in Place	+ +	+ +
Duplicate	+	+
Select All	+	+
Deselect All	+ +	+ +
Import Library	+ +	+ +
Align Window	+	+
Save As	+ +	+ +
Scale and Rotate	+ +	++
Remove Transform	+ +	+ +
Move Ahead	+	+
Move Behind	+	+
Bring to Front	+ +	+ +
Send to Back	+ +	+ +
Show or hide Transform Panel	+	+
Narrower letterspacing (kerning)	+ +	++
Wider letterspacing (kerning)	++	++

Action	Mac	Windows
Remove rotation or scaling from the selected objects	+ +	+ +
Rotate the selection to 90 degrees left	+ +	+ +
Scale and/or rotate the selection using numeric values	+ +	+ +
Auto formats the editor code	+ +	+ +
Show hidden characters	+ +	+ +
suppresses highlighting of selected items	+ +	+ +
Show or hide the rulers	+ + +	+ + +
Show Frame Script Navigator	+ +	+ +
Show or hide the tweening shape hints	+ +	+ +
Show a smaller area of the drawing with more detail	+	+
Show a larger area of the drawing with less detail	+	+
Show or hide the Align panel	+	+
Show or hide the Color panel	+ +	+ +
Show or hide the Compiler Errors panel	+	+
Open a new window in the front most simulation that is a duplicate of the active window	+ +	+ +
Show or hide the History panel	+	+
Show or hide Info Panel	+	+
Show or hide the Library panel for this document	+	+
Show or hide the Property Inspector	+	+
Show or change a list of the scenes in the current movie	+	+
Select colors from swatches and manage swatches	+	+
Show or hide the animation timeline and layers controls	+ +	+ +
Show or hide the drawing toolbar	+	+
Increase onion skin marker size on both directions equally	+ drag towards right/left	+ drag towards right/left
Shifts the entire range of onion skin markers to the right/left respectively.	+ drag towards right/left	+ drag towards right/left