Complete Google Forms keyboard shortcuts and commands reference — 11 shortcuts across 1 category. Quick reference cheat sheet for Windows & Mac.
Google Forms has a compact keyboard layer for the editor: moving between questions, adding sections, formatting the description text, and submitting. It matters most when building a long form, where Tab and Shift + Tab replace a lot of clicking. The bindings are the Windows/Chrome OS set; macOS uses Cmd for Ctrl.
| Shortcut | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl + Enter | Submit form | Submit form in preview. |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo | Undo last action. |
| Ctrl + Shift + Enter | Add section | Add a new section. |
| Tab | Next item | Move to next item. |
| Ctrl + Y | Redo | Redo the last undone change in the form editor. |
| Shift + Tab | Previous item | Move focus to the previous question or element. |
| Esc | Deselect item | Exit the current question field without saving focus. |
| Ctrl + B | Bold | Bold selected text in question or description fields. |
| Ctrl + I | Italic | Italicize selected text in description fields. |
| Ctrl + U | Underline | Underline selected text in description fields. |
| Ctrl + K | Insert link | Add a hyperlink to selected text in a description. |
The most essential Google Forms shortcuts are: Ctrl + Enter (Submit form), Ctrl + Z (Undo), Ctrl + Shift + Enter (Add section).
The Google Forms shortcut for submit form is Ctrl + Enter. Submit form in preview.
Print the Google Forms cheat sheet and keep it next to your keyboard for the first week, then switch to active recall: open Shortcut Speedrun and practice Google Forms shortcuts against the clock until they're automatic.
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Tab and Shift + Tab move focus forward and back through questions and their controls — title, options, required toggle — and Esc deselects the current item so the arrow keys scroll the page instead. Ctrl + Shift + Enter adds a new section after the current one, which is how a form is split into pages with their own headers.
The description and question fields support bold (Ctrl + B), italic (Ctrl + I) and underline (Ctrl + U), and Ctrl + K inserts a link, which is useful for pointing respondents at a policy or example. Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y undo and redo edits to the structure as well as text, including a deleted question.
Ctrl + Enter submits the form when filling it in, the same key that submits a comment in other Google apps. On the respondent side, Tab moves between fields and Space toggles checkboxes and radio buttons, so a form can be completed entirely from the keyboard — worth checking when designing one for accessibility.
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