Shortcuts
Here are the keyboard shortcuts that help make Alteryx Designer accessible to users who need full keyboard access. Shortcuts include keyboard, mouse, and right-click context menu shortcuts in Alteryx. You can use these shortcuts to perform many functions, including navigating the canvas and showing or hiding tools and windows.

Action | Shortcut |
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Select the tool palette. | Ctrl + Shift + T |
Select the Overview window. | Ctrl + Shift + V |
Select the Results window. | Ctrl + Shift + G |
Select the Configuration window. | Ctrl + Shift + C |
Select the canvas. | Ctrl + Shift + W |
Select the Interface Designer window. | Ctrl + Shift + D |
Navigate the Tool Palette
Once you select the tool palette via the above Ctrl + Shift + T shortcut, you have some additional navigation options:
- Use the left and right arrows to navigate tool categories. Use the down arrow to step into a category and use the left and right arrows to navigate the tools within the category.
- Use the Tab key to access the Favorites tool category.
- Use the Enter key to place a tool on the canvas. The tool appears on the canvas in this priority order:
- After the currently focused tool within the in-line connection (only applies if there is a tool that follows the focused tool).
- Inserted into the focused connection.
- After the last added tool. If the last tool has no output anchor, the new tool is added to the right.
- If there are multiple input anchors on the new tool, it's added to the canvas without a connection.
Navigate the Canvas
Once you select the canvas via the above Ctrl + Shift + W shortcut, you have some additional navigation options:
Navigate the Canvas
- Use Ctrl + Tab to cycle through your open workflows.
- If you focus on a new workflow, the screen reader provides an "empty" message.
- If there are already tools on the canvas, focus lands on the first tool added to the canvas.
- Use the Tab key to cycle through tools on the workflow canvas. The tab order corresponds to the tool ID (i.e. the order in which tools were added to the canvas, in ascending numeric order.)
- Use Shift + F10 to open the context menu for the selected tool.
Read Connections
Once you select a tool, use Alt + 1 to read the top-left connection. Use Alt + 2 to read the connection below, and so on. If there are multiple connections, the screen reader tells you "multiple connections" and does not read all individual connections.
Select Connections
- When a tool on the canvas is selected, use Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow to select the anchors and their corresponding connections one at a time, starting with the topmost input and ending with the bottommost output. Use Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow to do the same, in reverse. The screen reader reads the selected connection.
- When an anchor and connection are selected, use Shift + F10 to open the context menu for the connection.
- As you select different anchors, the Results window populates with the corresponding data (assuming the workflow was already run.)

Action | Shortcut |
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Select all items | Ctrl + A |
Deselect all selected items | Ctrl + D |
Align tools vertically | Ctrl + Shift + + |
Align tools horizontally | Ctrl + Shift + - |

Action | Shortcut |
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Move selected tool | Arrow key |
Move selected tool by one pixel | Ctrl + Arrow key |
Delete selected tool | Delete |

Action | Shortcut |
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Scroll vertically | Scroll Function |
Scroll horizontally | Shift + Scroll Function |
Move up, down, left or right | Arrow Keys |
Skip up, down, left or right | Shift + Arrow Keys |
Jump to top or bottom | Home or End |
Jump to left or right | Shift + Home or End |
Pan | Space Bar + Left Click |
Pan | Hold mouse center button |

Action | Shortcut |
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Zoom in or out | Ctrl + + or - |
Zoom to or from cursor | Ctrl + Scroll Function |
Zoom to entire workflow | Ctrl + 0 |
Zoom to entire workflow | Double-click mouse center button |
Jump to selection | Ctrl + 0 |
Jump in or out | Ctrl + 1 through 5 |
Zoom to area | Right-click & drag to select with magnifying glass |

Action | Right-click Context Menu |
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Zoom in | Zoom > Zoom In |
Zoom normal | Zoom > Zoom Normal |
Zoom out | Zoom > Zoom Out |
Zoom to entire workflow | Zoom > All |
Zoom to selection | Zoom > Selected Tools |
Zoom to container | Zoom > Container Name |

Action | Shortcut |
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Show Tool Palette | Ctrl + Alt + T |
Show Overview | Ctrl + Alt + V |
Show Results Window | Ctrl + Alt + R |
Show Configuration Window | Ctrl + Alt + C |
Reopen the Configuration Window after closing it | Double-click the canvas or any tool |
Show the Interface Designer | Ctrl + Alt + D |
Show the Find tab of the Find and Replace window. Use the Esc key to hide the window. | Ctrl + F |
Show the Replace tab of the Find and Replace window. Use the Esc key to hide the window. | Ctrl + H |

Action | Shortcut |
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Run workflow; stop workflow from running | Ctrl + R |
Open workflow | Ctrl + O |
Close open workflow | Ctrl + F4 |
Save workflow | Ctrl + S |
Save all open workflows | Ctrl + Shift + S |
New workflow | Ctrl + N |
Move between open workflows | Ctrl + Tab |

Action | Shortcut |
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Undo | Ctrl + Z |
Redo | Ctrl + Y |
Copy | Ctrl + C |
Cut | Ctrl + X |
Paste | Ctrl + V |

Action | Shortcut |
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Open help page for the selected tool | F1 |
Select the Tool Palette | Ctrl + Shift + T |
Select the Overview Panel | Ctrl + Shift + V |
Select the Results Panel | Ctrl + Shift + G (results grid) |
Select the Configuration Panel | Ctrl + Shift + C |
Select the Canvas | Ctrl + Shift + W |
Select the Interface Designer Window | Ctrl + Shift + D |
Close Alteryx Designer | Alt + F4 |
Close the Finished running window | Spacebar |
Add a Browse tool after selected tool(s). If the selected tool has multiple outputs, a browse will be added for each. | Ctrl + Shift + B |
Activate menu and select menu item | Alt, then underlined menu letter |
Show the System menu | Alt + Space |
Open one or more files:
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Drag files from Windows Explorer directly to the canvas. |
Copy and paste a tool's color value to another tool. For example, if you have selected a tool's Background Color (such as R=73, G=248, B=113) and you would like to use this same color for another tool's background color, you can easily copy and paste this color value. |
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Refresh Workflow
Use F5 to refresh tool configurations when the incoming data source has been updated externally and the metadata has changed. If the Disable Auto Configure option has been selected in the User Settings, press F5 to manually refresh tool configurations. |
F5 |