The set of Workplacea keyboard shortcuts is deliberately small: a handful of keys covering the actions you repeat most — accepting and dismissing AI suggestions, undoing, and printing — rather than a hundred bindings you'd never memorize. This page is the complete, honest reference: every shortcut that exists today, the workflow that makes each one earn its place, and a clear note on what isn't built yet.
The shortcut philosophy
An editing session in Workplacea has a rhythm: type a bullet, ask Rewrite for variants, read the diffs, decide, move on. The shortcuts exist to keep that decision loop on the keyboard, because the loop is where you spend your time. Reaching for the mouse to click Accept on your fortieth suggestion of the evening is the kind of friction that adds up; everything else — opening drawers, picking templates — happens rarely enough that clicking is fine. So the reference below is short on purpose, and anything listed as not yet available is us declining to pad it.
The complete reference
| Shortcut | Where it works | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows/Linux) | An open suggestion card | Accept the selected suggestion and apply it to your resume |
| Esc | An open suggestion card | Dismiss the suggestions without applying anything |
| Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z) | Anywhere in the editor | Undo the last change — up to 20 steps of history |
| Cmd+P (Ctrl+P) | Anywhere in the editor | The browser's print shortcut; same result as Download — the print dialog for PDF export |
| Enter / Space, Tab, arrow keys | Dialogs, menus, and drawers | Standard keyboard operation of buttons, menus, and fields throughout |
Printable version: this table is the whole cheat sheet — print this page, or jot the first three lines on a sticky note. Cmd+Enter, Esc, Cmd+Z cover ninety percent of real usage.
The redline review loop: where shortcuts matter most
The shortcuts pay off inside the Rewrite flow, which you'll use dozens of times per session:
- In any bullet, open the Rewrite menu and pick a mode — Improve, Shorten, or Add metrics.
- Up to three variants come back as word-level diffs, each with a one-line explanation of why.
- Read the diff. If a variant is right, Cmd+Enter accepts it. If none fit, Esc dismisses the card, or select "Try again" for a fresh set.
- Changed your mind after accepting? Cmd+Z reverses it — the history holds your last 20 steps, so you can experiment freely.
The same accept-or-move-on judgment drives the Tailor drawer's review queue, where each suggested edit offers Apply and Skip as you work through postings one card at a time — the full flow is in the tailoring guide. And when the AI needs a fact it doesn't have, it asks an evidence question or leaves an [ADD METRIC] placeholder rather than inventing a number — so an accepted suggestion is always safe to accept, never something to fact-check after the fact.
Navigation: what exists today
There are no dedicated jump-between-sections or switch-resume shortcuts yet. Navigation today is the ordinary, reliable kind:
- Within the editor, Tab and Shift+Tab move through fields in order, and the split view means your cursor position in the form is always mirrored in the live preview — you never navigate to check your work.
- Between resumes, the dashboard is the hub: each resume card opens with a click or with Enter when focused. Browser back returns you to the dashboard from any resume.
- The score drawer's "next 3 fixes" are themselves a navigation device — each fix deep-links to the exact bullet it refers to, which in practice replaces most of the jumping around you'd otherwise do.
Editing and formatting: why the list is short
You may notice there are no bold/italic/formatting shortcuts. That's the data model, not an omission: resume content in Workplacea is structured — sections, entries, bullets — and all visual formatting comes from your chosen template. There's nothing to bold, so there's no Cmd+B. The trade is deliberate: structure is what keeps every template single-column, consistent, and parseable, as explained in templates and ATS safety. Text editing inside any field is your operating system's standard kit — Cmd/Ctrl+arrow movement, selection, cut and paste — untouched and unsurprising.
Export from the keyboard
The fastest path from finished edit to saved file: Cmd+P (or Ctrl+P), confirm "Save as PDF" as the destination, Enter. Because export is the browser's own print dialog rendering the same layout as the preview, the print shortcut is a first-class export shortcut, not a workaround. Naming conventions and troubleshooting live in the export guide.
Not yet available
Stating the gaps plainly so you don't hunt for keys that aren't there:
- A command palette (the Cmd+K style every-action-searchable box) — not yet available.
- Custom key bindings — not yet available; the bindings above are fixed.
- Section jump and resume switcher shortcuts — not yet available.
- Redo (Cmd+Shift+Z) — the history currently runs one direction; undo steps back up to 20 changes, and re-applying an undone AI suggestion means running Rewrite again.
If a missing shortcut genuinely slows a workflow you repeat, that's exactly the kind of report that shapes what gets built next — tell us at contact@workplacea.com.
Frequently asked questions
What are the Windows and Linux equivalents?
Swap Cmd for Ctrl everywhere: Ctrl+Enter accepts a suggestion, Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+P prints. Esc is Esc on every platform.
How far back does undo reach?
Twenty steps, covering your edits and applied AI suggestions alike. It's a working-session safety net for experimentation — not a version history, so export a PDF (or use Duplicate on the dashboard) before any restructuring you might want to fully roll back.
Does Esc close drawers too?
Esc's documented job is dismissing suggestion cards. Drawers and dialogs also respond to standard keyboard interaction — and their close buttons are always reachable by Tab — but the reliable habit is: Esc for suggestions, click or Tab+Enter for panels.
Is there a shortcut to trigger Rewrite on the current bullet?
Not yet available. Rewrite opens from the bullet's Rewrite menu by mouse or Tab+Enter; once the variants are up, the keyboard takes over with Cmd+Enter and Esc.
Put them to work
Open the editor, run Rewrite on any bullet, and practice the loop — Cmd+Enter, Esc, Cmd+Z — until it's muscle memory; it takes about five suggestions. Shortcut requests and anything this reference missed: contact@workplacea.com.