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Keyboard support

Telerik RichTextBox supports keyboard shortcuts that trigger different commands of the control. The default key-bindings defined for the most widely used commands, are:

Keyboard shortcuts

Action Hot key
Copy Ctrl+C
Paste Ctrl+V
Cut Ctrl+X
Delete Delete
Undo Ctrl+Z
Redo Ctrl+Y
InsertLineBreak Shift+Enter
InsertPageBreak Ctrl+Enter
ToggleBold Ctrl+B, Ctrl+Shift+B
ToggleItalic Ctrl+I, Ctrl+Shift+I
ToggleSuperscript Ctrl+'+'
ToggleSubscript Ctrl+Shift+'+'
ToggleUnderline Ctrl+U
ClearFormatting Ctrl+Space
ChangeTextAlignment with parameter RadTextAlignment.Justify Ctrl+J
ChangeTextAlignment with parameter RadTextAlignment.Right Ctrl+R
ChangeTextAlignment with parameter RadTextAlignment.Left Ctrl+L
ChangeTextAlignment with parameter RadTextAlignment.Center Ctrl+E
SelectAll Ctrl+A
Move caret back Left Arrow
Move caret forward Right Arrow
Move caret to the previous word Ctrl+Left Arrow
Move caret to the next word Ctrl+Right Arrow
Move caret up Upper Arrow
Move caret down Down Arrow
Move caret at the beginning of the paragraph Ctrl+Upper Arrow
Move caret at the end of the paragraph Ctrl+Down Arrow
Move caret to the beginning of the line Home
Move caret to the beginning of the document Ctrl+Home
Move caret to the end of the line End
Move caret to the end of the document Ctrl+End
Scroll the page up PageUp
Scroll the page down PageDown
Show InsertHyperlink dialog Ctrl+K
Show FindAndReplace dialog Ctrl+F
Insert the “€” symbol Ctrl + Alt + E
Insert the “®” symbol Ctrl + Alt + R
Insert the “™” symbol Ctrl + Alt + T
Insert the “©” symbol Ctrl + Alt + C
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