Anna Shalomova
PPM Consultant
External keyboard with keyboard shortcuts appears to be the more effective way of working with Microsoft Project Online for many of its users. Moreover, there are users with mobility or vision disabilities, and keyboard shortcuts may be a much more comfortable alternative for them than using the touchscreen or a mouse. This article will help you learn more about keyboard shortcuts in Project Online.
Navigate Across Project Online
Use the following controls to navigate around the Project Web App:
| Move selection between links in the main link bar. | Alt+J |
| Moving the selection from one web part to the next web part on pages that use several web parts. | Alt +] |
| Deploying drop-down list. | Alt + down arrow |
Grid Controls
Both Microsoft Project Online and the Web client of Microsoft Project Server 2019, use the very convenient keyboard shortcuts to navigate to different parts of the web page. Some of the pages in Project Online use HTML-based grid controls and some of them use AJAX grid controls. For HTML-based pages, such as Tasks, you can use the following keyboard shortcuts:
| Go to the next cell or row. | Right arrow key or tab key |
| Go to the previous cell or line. | Left Arrow key or Shift + Tab key |
| Move up. | Up arrow key |
| Move down. | Down Arrow Key or Enter |
| Scroll to the URL in the selected cell. | Enter |
| Move to the header cell. | Ctrl + Y |
| Removing the selection of the selected cell. | Esc |
| Go to the last cell or row. | Ctrl + End |
| Move to the first cell or row. | Ctrl + Home |
| Enable or disable line selection. | Ctrl + SPACEBAR |
| Expand the drop-down menu in the header | Ctrl + SPACEBAR |
| Deploy or collapse grouping | Ctrl + SPACEBAR |
| Deploying a group; Collapse group; Expand or collapse the element. | Ctrl + SPACEBAR |
| Open the cell drop-down menu. | Alt + down arrow |
In the AJAX grid, for example, on the Project Details page, you can use the following shortcuts:
| Activate cell edit mode | F2 |
| Go one page up | Page Up |
| Down one page | Page Down |
| Decrease the level of the selected task | Alt + Shift + right arrow |
| Increase the level of the selected task | Alt + Shift + left arrow |
| Cancel input or edit | Esc |
| Copy selection | Ctrl + C |
| Cut selection | Ctrl + X |
| Delete Dedicated Data | DELETE or Ctrl + V or Ctrl + Z |
| Delete a line | Ctrl + Delete |
| Go to the first field in the row | Home |
| Go to the first line | Ctrl + up arrow |
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