Keyboard and the command palette

Ctrl+Shift+P opens the palette and searches every command by name.

Last updated 2026-10-21

Ctrl+Shift+P opens the palette and searches every command by name.

The command palette filtered by the word format, listing matching commands with their shortcuts.
The command palette filtered by the word format, listing matching commands with their shortcuts.

Every command is reachable from it, and that is structural rather than a promise: the window's keyboard bindings and the palette are generated from one registry, so a command cannot exist without a route to it.

Key Command
F5 Execute
Alt+Break Cancel
Ctrl+Shift+V Preview substituted script
Ctrl+N New script
Ctrl+S / Ctrl+Shift+S Save / Save all
Ctrl+O Open project
Ctrl+Shift+N New project
Ctrl+K Format
Ctrl+E / Ctrl+Shift+E Export results / Export all results
Ctrl+Shift+B Variable editor
Ctrl+Shift+R Refresh IntelliSense schema
Ctrl+Shift+P Command palette
Ctrl+G Group / ungroup the completion list
F6 Re-read the Scripts folder
F2 Rename, in the focused pane
Delete Remove from project, in the focused Project pane row
Alt+Up / Alt+Down Move script up / down