Essential Business Central shortcuts

Business Central shortcuts are a convenient way to perform everyday tasks more quickly. You work more productively by invoking frequently used functions with your keyboard instead of using your mouse or finger. There’s no longer a need to search endlessly in the action bar. We are happy to show you the most important shortcuts.

Most used keyboard shortcuts

Although some keyboard shortcuts in Business Central are the same as in other Microsoft products, it is a nice list to memorize. Depending on your tasks, some keyboard shortcuts will be relevant to you, and by working with these shortcuts for a long time, you will eventually be able to use them without thinking. This allows you to perform your tasks faster and more efficiently. We have compiled two lists of our industry’s most used keyboard shortcuts.

General

• Ctrl + F1: Business Central Help;
• Ctrl + Alt + F1: Inspect page and data, this opens and closes the page record window. The page record window shows information about the page, such as the source table, fields, filters, extensions, and more;
• Alt + F2: Toggle the FactBox area on or off;
• F3: Search;
• Shift + F3: Toggle filter pane on/off;
• Ctrl + Shift + F3: Toggle filter pane (totals) on/off;
• Alt + F3: Filter by this value;
• Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F3: Reset all filters;
• Shift + Alt + F3: Filter by this field;
• F5: Refresh data, likely a familiar function for you, but no less helpful for that;
• Alt + F6: Collapse current quick tab;
• Alt + F7: Sort by current column, this sorts the selected column in ascending or descending order. Unfortunately, it is not possible to do this in a tile view;
• F8: Copy cell above;
• Shift + F12: Role Explorer;
• Ctrl + F12: Toggle between narrow/wide page;
• Alt + N: New record;
• Alt + Shift + N: Close a newly created record and create a new record;
• Alt + Shift + W: Move a page to a separate window;
• Alt + Q: Open Tell Me;
• Alt + T: My settings; Alt + O: Add a new note for the selected record;
• Ctrl + O: Switch company or environment.

Navigating and selecting rows

• Home/End: Go to the first/last field;
• Ctrl + Home/End: Go to the first/last row;
• Ctrl + Up/Down: Navigate without losing selection;
• Ctrl + A: Select all;
• Ctrl + Spacebar: Toggle selection on/off;
• Shift + Up/Down: Add row above/below selection;
• Shift + Page Up/Down: Select visible rows above/below;
• Ctrl + Enter: Move focus from the filter panel back to the list.

Download the overview of Business Central keyboard shortcuts

Would you like to know which other keyboard shortcuts are available in Business Central? We have created a handy overview with all directly usable keyboard shortcuts. See the image below or download the overview here in PDF format. For a more detailed description, we kindly refer you to Microsoft Learn.