Keyboard Shortcuts In AEM/CQ

Keyboard Shortcuts for Authoring

Location	Shortcut *	Description
Websites Console	Shift-Double-Click (on required page)	Open page in new window. Note: this is operational if the User Properties are set to Single Window; if Multiple Windows then this is the default behavior.
Content Window (Edit Mode) - Paragraphs	Shift-Click	Select multiple paragraphs.
	Ctrl-Click	Select multiple paragraphs.
	Ctrl-C	Copy selected paragraph(s).
	Ctrl-X	Cut selected paragraph(s).Note: The cut paragraph will not disappear until it has been pasted to the new location.
	Ctrl-V	Paste paragraphs from clipboard.
	Alt-Ctrl-V	Paste as reference.
	Del	Delete selected paragraph(s).
	Backspace	Delete selected paragraph(s).
	Alt-right-click	Force default (browser) context menu.
Rich Text Editor	Ctrl-B	Bold
	Ctrl-I	Italic
	Ctrl-U	Underline
Page with a teaser component.	Ctrl-Alt-c	Shows the client context.
Content Finder - Search box	down-arrow	Trigger a suggestions list. Needed when too few characters have been entered to trigger the list automatically (this happens when 2 or more characters have been entered).
	right-arrow (on a suggested path)	Select item and trigger suggestions for the selected path.
	left-arrow (on a suggested path)	Select item and trigger suggestions for its ancestors (as in siblings of parent).
	Enter (on a suggested path)	Select item and trigger search.
	Esc	Close suggestions layer.
Drag assets, drop on destination	Alt+drag	The drop action produces a new paragraph; instead of replacing the asset in the destination.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Development

Location	Shortcut *	Description
Page	Ctrl-Shift-U with     ?debugClientLibs=true set in the URL.	To see timing statistics for page loading.