External keyboard tips – Support

You can also use an external keyboard to type. When you use an external keyboard, the onscreen keyboard doesn’t appear. Here is a partial list of keyboard shortcuts you can use with an external keyboard.

ActionShortcut

Undo your last action	Command-Z
Select all the text in the field	Command-A
Copy the selected text	Command-C
Paste the selected text	Command-V
Cut the selected text	Command-X
Go to the top of the text field	Command-Up Arrow
Delete the previous word	Option-Delete
Delete the previous line	Command-Delete
Delete to the end of the current line	Control-K
Go to the beginning of the line	Control-A
Go to the end of the line	Control-E
Go to the word to the right or left of the insertion point	Option-Right Arrow or Option-Left Arrow
Select the character to the right or left of the insertion point	Shift-Right Arrow or Shift-Left Arrow
Select the word to the right or left of the insertion point	Shift-Option-Right Arrow or Shift-Option-Left Arrow
Select the text from the keyboard cursor to the beginning or to the end of the line	Shift-Command-Right Arrow or Shift-Command-Left Arrow
Select the text from the keyboard cursor to the end of the text area	Shift-Command-Down Arrow
Em-dash	Option-shift-hyphen
En-dash	Option-hyphen

Jump one word to right or left of the insertion point Option-Right Arrow or Option-Left Arrow

Jump to beginning or end of line Command-Right / Left Arrow

Go to bottom of the text field Command-Down Arrow

There is also a list of iPad Keyboard Shortcuts at GIGAOM.