Essential keyboard shortcuts for the Office Selection Pane

1 November 2021

You can use these essential keyboard shortcuts make best use of the the Selection pane in Microsoft Office.

Alt + F10 Open Selection Pane

F6 Move the keyboard focus through the major regions until reaches the Selection Pane

Tab Navigate by keyboard through the buttons in the pane and then into the list

Up arrow, down arrow Move the focus among the items in the list

Enter or spacebar Select an item in the list

F2 Edit the name of the item in the list that has focus

Shift + Enter or Shift + spacebar Add/remove the item from the selection (that is, multi-select)

Ctrl + Shift + S Show/hide the item

Ctrl + Shift + B Send backward

Ctrl + Shift + F Bring forward

Left arrow Collapse the current group

Right arrow Expand the current group

Alt + Shift + 1 Collapse all groups

Alt + Shift + 9 Expand all groups