Complete Roundup of Google Drive Shortcuts! [Essentials]

Here are some of the Google Drive shortcuts that would help you from navigating across files to deleting files on Google Drive without a mouse!

Google Drive launched sometime back and we all would have got our hands dirty with this technology by this time. But not many users are aware of the col shortcuts that the cloud based service supports. Many of my friends have asked me for this and here’s a complete list of shortcuts that Google Drive Supports right on the browser.

There’ are also other tips for Google Drive like Accessing your Google Drive files offline without the need of the internet and also, you could set Google Drive as your default Documents folder on both Mac and Windows. If you’re still unclear about the features the Google Drive offers, the you should probably look at the Unofficial Google Drive feature list before you get your hands dirty with it.

List of Google Drive Keyboard Shortcuts:

Selection

j Highlight the next item in the list
k Highlight the previous item in the list
x Select/unselect the current highlighted item
Down Select next item
Shift+Down Select next item and current items
Up Select previous item
Shift+Up Select previous item and current item
Shift+a Select all visible items
Shift+n Clear all selections

Go to

g then n Navigation panel
g then f Folders
g then l Documents list
g then d Details pane
g then t Top of page

Application

?, Shift =/, Ctrl =/ Keyboard shortcuts
d Show/hide details pane
/ Search

Create

Shift+t text document
Shift+p Presentation
Shift+s Spreadsheet
Shift+d Drawing
Shift+f Folder

Menus

c Create
u Upload
a Actions
r Sort
t Settings

Actions

, Share
Enter, o Open
z Organise
s Star/Unstar

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