Qt Creator Default Keyboard Shortcuts

General Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Keyboard shortcut
Open file or project	Ctrl+O
New file or project	Ctrl+N
Open in external editor	Alt+V, Alt+I
Cut	Ctrl+X
Copy	Ctrl+C
Paste	Ctrl+V
Redo	Ctrl+Y
Save	Ctrl+S
Save all	Ctrl+A
Close window	Ctrl+W
Close all	Ctrl+Shift+W
Go back	Alt+Left
Go forward	Alt+Right
Go to line	Ctrl+L
Next open document in history	Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Goto other split	Ctrl+E, O
Previous open document in history	Ctrl+Tab
Activate Locator	Ctrl+K
Switch to Welcome mode	Ctrl+1
Switch to Edit mode	Ctrl+2
Switch to Design mode	Ctrl+3
Switch to Debug mode	Ctrl+4
Switch to Projects mode	Ctrl+5
Switch to Analyze mode	Ctrl+6
Switch to Help mode	Ctrl+7
Toggle Issues pane	Alt+1 (Cmd+1 on Mac OS X)
Toggle Search Results pane	Alt+2 (Cmd+2 on Mac OS X)
Toggle Application Output pane	Alt+3 (Cmd+3 on Mac OS X)
Toggle Compile Output pane	Alt+4 (Cmd+4 on Mac OS X)
Activate Bookmarks pane	Alt+M
Activate File System pane	Alt+Y
Activate Open Documents pane	Alt+O
Activate Projects pane	Alt+X
Full screen	Ctrl+Shift+F11
Toggle the sidebar	Alt+0 (Cmd+0 on Mac OS X)
Undo	Ctrl+Z
Move to Edit mode In Edit mode: The first press moves focus to the editor The second press closes secondary windows	Esc

Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Keyboard shortcut
Auto-indent selection	Ctrl+I
Collapse	Ctrl+<
Expand	Ctrl+>
Trigger a completion in this scope	Ctrl+Space
Copy line down	Ctrl+Alt+Down
Copy line up	Ctrl+Alt+Up
Cut line	Shift+Del
Join lines	Ctrl+J
Decrease font size	Ctrl+- (Ctrl+Roll mouse wheel down)
Increase font size	Ctrl++ (Ctrl+Roll mouse wheel up)
Toggle Vim-style editing	Alt+V, Alt+V
Split	Ctrl+E, 2
Split side by side	Ctrl+E, 3
Remove all splits	Ctrl+E, 1
Remove current split	Ctrl+E, 0
Select all	Ctrl+A
Go to block end	Ctrl+]
Go to block start	Ctrl+[
Go to block end with selection	Ctrl+}
Go to block start with selection	Ctrl+{
Move current line down	Ctrl+Shift+Down
Move current line up	Ctrl+Shift+Up
Trigger a quick fix in this scope	Alt+Return
Rewrap paragraph	Ctrl+E, R
Select the current block The second press extends the selection to the parent block	Ctrl+U
Enable text wrapping	Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W
Toggle comment for selection	Ctrl+/
Visualize whitespace	Ctrl+E, Ctrl+V
Delete	Del
Adjust size	Ctrl+J
Lay out in a grid	Ctrl+G
Lay out horizontally	Ctrl+H
Lay out vertically	Ctrl+L
Preview	Alt+Shift+R
Edit signals and slots	F4
Edit widgets	F3
Toggle bookmark	Ctrl+M
Go to next bookmark	Ctrl+.
Go to previous bookmark	Ctrl+,
Fetch snippet	Alt+C, Alt+F
Paste snippet	Alt+C, Alt+P
Find usages	Ctrl+Shift+U
Follow symbol under cursor Works with namespaces, classes, methods, variables, include statements and macros	F2
Rename symbol under cursor	Ctrl+Shift+R
Switch between method declaration and definition	Shift+F2
Open type hierarchy	Ctrl+Shift+T
Switch between header and source file	F4
Turn selected text into lowercase	Alt+U
Turn selected text into uppercase	Alt+Shift+U
Run static checks on JavaScript code to find common problems	Ctrl+Shift+C

Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Keyboard shortcut
Start debugging	F5
Stop or interrupt debugger	Shift+F5
Reset debugger	Ctrl+Shift+F5
Step over	F10
Step into	F11
Step out	Shift+F11
Toggle breakpoint	F9
Run to selected function	Ctrl+F6

Project Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Keyboard shortcut
Build project	Ctrl+B
Build all	Ctrl+Shift+B
New project	Ctrl+Shift+N
Run	Ctrl+R

Help Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Keyboard shortcut
View context-sensitive help	F1
Activate contents in Help mode	Ctrl+T
Add bookmark in Help mode	Ctrl+M
Activate index in Help mode	Ctrl+I
Reset font size in Help mode	Ctrl+0
Activate search in Help mode	Ctrl+S

Version Control Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Version control system
	CVS	Git	Perforce	Subversion	Mercurial
Add	Alt+C, Alt+A	Alt+G, Alt+A		Alt+S, Alt+A
Commit	Alt+C, Alt+C	Alt+G, Alt+C			Alt+H, Alt+C
Diff	Alt+C, Alt+D	Alt+G, Alt+D		Alt+S, Alt+D	Alt+H, Alt+D
Diff project		Alt+G, Alt+Shift+D	Alt+P, Alt+D
Blame		Alt+G, Alt+B
Log		Alt+G, Alt+L	Alt+P, Alt+F		Alt+H, Alt+L
Log project		Alt+G, Alt+K
Status		Alt+G, Alt+S			Alt+H, Alt+S
Undo changes		Alt+G, Alt+U
Diff project		Alt+G, Alt+Shift+D	Alt+P, Alt+D
Edit			Alt+P, Alt+E
Opened			Alt+P, Alt+O
Revert			Alt+P, Alt+R
Submit			Alt+P, Alt+S