Touch gestures and keyboard shortcuts in OneNote for Windows 8

OneNote for Windows 8 supports several touch gestures and keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate its interface and commands more easily.

Touch gestures

Radial menus

To expand a radial menu, activate its commands, and view its available sub-menus, tap its icon when it appears on the screen.
To show additional commands related to a particular command on the radial menu, tap the arrow next to that command or swipe from the center to the edge in the direction of the arrow.
To quickly activate any of the top-level commands of a radial menu, swipe around its icon on the screen without first expanding it. As you swipe around the icon, a tooltip confirms the command that will be applied when you take your finger off of the screen.

See Use radial menus to display OneNote commands for more information.

Navigation

To show the navigation, place your finger on the canvas and swipe to the right.
To display OneNote options, go to any page in your notebook, swipe from the right edge of the screen to the left, and then tap Settings.
To reorder or move pages and sections in your notebook, drag the page or section horizontally until it comes loose, and then drop it to where you want.
To select or change notebooks, sections, or pages, tap the notebook tab, section tab, or page tab you want.
To quickly select a notebook, section, or page, and display the app bar, swipe horizontally across the notebook tab, section tab, or page tab you want.

Page canvas

To quickly pan across the page, tap and hold in a blank part of the page, and then swipe in the direction you want to pan.
To select a word, tap the text, and then drag on the circular handle that appears to make a selection.

Search and settings

To display the Windows 8 charms bar, swipe from the right edge of the screen to the left.

App bar

To display the OneNote for Windows 8 app bar, swipe upwards from the bottom of the screen.

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Keyboard shortcuts

If you’re using a physical keyboard with OneNote for Windows 8, you can save time by using the following supported keyboard shortcuts for popular commands and tasks.

Typing, editing, and navigating notes

To do this	Press
Cut	CTRL+X
Copy	CTRL+C —or— CTRL+INSERT
Paste	CTRL+V —or— SHIFT+INSERT
Undo	CTRL+Z —or— ALT+BACKSPACE
Redo	CTRL+Y —or— SHIFT+ALT+BACKSPACE
Cancel current level of an interface control	ESC
Select all text and objects on a page	CTRL+A
Create a new page	CTRL+N
Create a new page after the current page	CTRL+ALT+N
Create a new subpage	CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N
Promote a subpage to a page	CTRL+ALT+{ (OPEN BRACE)
Demote a page to a subpage	CTRL+ALT+} (CLOSE BRACE)
Create a new section	CTRL+T
Mark a page as read or unread	CTRL+Q
Navigate to the previous page in the list	CTRL+PAGE UP
Navigate to the next page in the list	CTRL+PAGE DOWN
Navigate to the first page in the current section	ALT+HOME
Navigate to the last page in the current section	ALT+END
Navigate to the previously viewed page	ALT+LEFT ARROW
Navigate to the next previously viewed page	ALT+RIGHT ARROW
Toggle the notebook list on or off	ALT+F1
Navigate to the title of the current page	CTRL+SHIFT+T
Navigate to the destination of a link	CTRL+ENTER (while cursor is on link text)
Cycle through user interface elements (navigation, radial menu, canvas, app bar, etc.)	F6 (press one or more times)
Zoom in on the current page	CTRL+PLUS SIGN (Numpad only)
Zoom out on the current page	CTRL+MINUS SIGN (Numpad only)
Insert the current date	ALT+SHIFT+D
Insert the current time	ALT+SHIFT+T
Insert the current date and time	ALT+SHIFT+F

Formatting text

To do this	Press
Make selected text bold	CTRL+B
Make selected text italic	CTRL+I
Underline selected text	CTRL+U
Superscript selected text	CTRL+SHIFT+= (EQUAL SIGN)
Highlight selected text	CTRL+SHIFT+H
Toggle text highlighting on or off	CTRL+ALT+H
Copy text formatting	CTRL+SHIFT+C
Paste text formatting	CTRL+SHIFT+V
Apply the “To Do” tag to the current line of text	CTRL+1
Apply the “Important” tag to the current line of text	CTRL+2
Apply the “Question” tag to the current line of text	CTRL+3
Remove note tags from the current line of text	CTRL+0
Increase Font Size by 1 point	CTRL+SHIFT+. (PERIOD)
Decrease Font Size by 1 point	CTRL+SHIFT+, (COMMA)
Align the current paragraph to the left	SHIFT+ALT+LEFT ARROW
Align the current paragraph to the right	SHIFT+ALT+RIGHT ARROW
Start or end a bulleted list item	CTRL+. (PERIOD) —or— CTRL+SHIFT+L
Start or end a numbered list item	CTRL+? —or— CTRL+SHIFT+O

Searching, sharing, and syncing notes

To do this	Press
Search notes	CTRL+E
Share current page	WINDOWS KEY+H
Manually sync the current notebook	SHIFT+F9
Manually sync all notebooks	F9

Working with tables

To do this	Press
Insert a new row below	CTRL+ENTER
Insert a new column to the right	CTRL+ALT+R
Insert a new column to the left	CTRL+ALT+E