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Appendix B Keyboard Shortcuts

The following tables list keyboard shortcuts for MySQL Workbench commands. Modifier in the tables stands for the platform-specific modifier key. This is Command on macOS, Control on other platforms. On macOS, the Alt key is Option.

There are keyboard shortcuts for the different menus in MySQL Workbench:

File Menu

Table B.1 File menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
New Model	Modifier+N	All
Open Model	Modifier+O	All
Open SQL Script	Modifier+Shift+O	SQL Editor
Close Tab	Modifier+W, Modifier+F4 on Windows	All
Save Model	Modifier+S	Model
Save Script	Modifier+S	SQL Editor
Save Model As	Modifier+Shift+S	Model
Save Script As	Modifier+Shift+S	SQL Editor
Forward Engineer SQL CREATE Script	Modifier+Shift+G	Model
Forward Engineer SQL ALTER Script	Modifier+Alt+Y	Model
Synchronize With SQL CREATE Script	Modifier+Shift+Y	Model
Print	Modifier+P	EER Diagram mode only
Exit	Modifier+Q	All

Edit Menu

Table B.2 Edit menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Undo	Modifier+Z	Model, EER Diagram
Redo	Modifier+Y, Modifier+Shift+Z (macOS)	Model, EER Diagram
Cut	Modifier+X	All
Copy	Modifier+C	All
Paste	Modifier+V	All
Delete	Modifier+Delete, Command+BackSpace (macOS)	All
Edit Selected	Modifier+E	Model, EER Diagram
Edit Selected in New Window	Modifier+Shift+E	Model, EER Diagram
Select All	Modifier+A	EER Diagram
Find	Modifier+F	All
Find Advanced	Modifier+Alt+F	All
Find Next	F3	All
Find Previous	Shift+F3	All
Search and Replace	Modifier+Shift+F	All
Beautify Query	Modifier+B	SQL Editor
Comment/Uncomment lines of SQL	Modifier+/	SQL Editor
Auto-Complete SQL	Modifier+Space	SQL Editor

View Menu

Table B.3 View menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Output Window	Modifier+F2, Modifier+Option+2 (macOS)	All
Set Marker n	Modifier+Shift+n (n is integer 1..9)	EER Diagram
Go to Marker n	Modifier+n (n is integer 1..9)	EER Diagram

Arrange Menu

Table B.4 Arrange menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Bring to Front	Modifier+Shift+F	EER Diagram
Send to Back	Modifier+Shift+B	EER Diagram

Model Menu

Table B.5 Model menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Add Diagram	Modifier+T	Model, EER Diagram
Validate All	Modifier+Alt+V	Model, EER Diagram
Validate All (MySQL)	Modifier+Alt+B	Model, EER Diagram
Model Options	Command+Alt+, (Shortcut available only on macOS)	Model, EER Diagram

Query Menu

Table B.6 Query menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Execute statement	Modifier+Return	SQL Editor
Execute statements	Modifier+Shift+Return	SQL Editor
New Tab	Modifier+T	SQL Editor

Database Menu

Table B.7 Database menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Query Database	Modifier+U	All
Reverse Engineer	Modifier+R	Model, EER Diagram
Forward Engineer	Modifier+G	Model, EER Diagram
Synchronize Model	Modifier+Y	Model, EER Diagram

Scripting Menu

Table B.8 Scripting menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Scripting Shell	Modifier+F3, Modifier+Option+3 (on macOS)	All
Run Workbench Script File	Modifier+Shift+R	All

Help Menu

Table B.9 Help menu keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut	Context
Help Index	F1, Command+Option+question (on macOS)	All

EER Diagram Mode

In the EER Diagram view, a number of other keyboard shortcuts are available.

Table B.10 EER diagram mode keyboard shortcuts

Function	Keyboard Shortcut
Selection tool	Escape
Hand tool	H
Delete tool	D
Layer tool	L
Note tool	N
Image tool	I
Table tool	T
View tool	V
Routine Group tool	G
Non-Identifying Relationship 1:1	1
Non-Identifying Relationship 1:n	2
Identifying Relationship 1:1	3
Identifying Relationship 1:n	4
Identifying Relationship n:m	5
Relationship Using Existing Columns	6

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