Use Whiteboards keyboard shortcuts

If you like saving clicks, check out our shortcuts.

You can find shortcuts in an open Whiteboard by hovering over buttons.

Screenshot showing the Draw shortcut on hover.

They are also accessible by clicking the info icon in the upper-right corner of your canvas.

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What you'll need

  • Whiteboards are available on every ClickUp Plan.

  • The number of Whiteboards that can be created depends on your plan:

    • Free Forever: 3 Whiteboards.

    • Unlimited: 10 Whiteboards.

    • Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise: Unlimited Whiteboards.

  • Guests can use Whiteboards.

  • If using Google Chrome, you must enable hardware acceleration.

Navigate with keyboard shortcuts

Use these shortcuts to navigate Whiteboards.

Action

Mac shortcut

Windows shortcut

General

 

 

Zoom canvas in/out

+ or - 
Cmd + scroll up or down

+ or - 

Ctrl + scroll up or down

Move canvas

Space bar + drag

Space bar + drag

Send backward

Moves an item in front of all other items.

[

[

Bring forward

Moves an item one layer above other items.

]

]

Send to back

Brings an item to the bottom layer. For example, if three items on the Whiteboard overlap, the selected item will now exist behind the other two. 

Cmd + [

Ctrl + [

Bring to front

Brings an item to the upper layer. For example, if three items on the Whiteboard overlap, the selected item will now exist in front of the other two.

Cmd + ]

Ctrl + ]

Tools

 

 

Move

M

M

Select

V

V

Deselect/back to select tool

Deselects the current item and enables the Select tool.  

Esc

Esc

Shapes

Shift + S

Shift + S

Sticky Note

Shift + N

Shift + N

Create new task

Shift + T

Shift + T

Connectors 

Shift + C

Shift + C

Draw

Shift + D

Shift + D

Edit

 

 

Undo

Cmd + Z

Ctrl + Z

Redo

Cmd + Shift + Z

Ctrl + Shift + Z

Copy

Cmd + C

Ctrl + C

Paste

Cmd + V

Ctrl + V

Duplicate

Cmd + D

Ctrl + D

Group/Ungroup:

  • Click and drag your mouse to group one or more items together.

  • A blue line appears around items that are grouped
    Type Cmd + G and the items stay grouped, but the blue guideline disappears.

  • Type Cmd + G again and those items are ungrouped.

Cmd + G

Ctrl + G

Mindmaps

 

 

Create new node horizontally

Tab

Tab

Create new node vertically

Enter

Enter

@mentions in text boxes, sticky notes, and shapes

 

 

People

@

@

Tasks

@@

@@

Docs

@@@

@@@

For the best Whiteboards experience, disable hotkeys in your preferences.

This will disable the hotkeys that can be used throughout ClickUp. They're handy, but it's easy to trigger an unwanted action while typing in a Whiteboard item!

  1. Click your account avatar.

  2. Select My Settings

  3. Scroll down to Preferences.

  4. If Hotkeys are enabled, click to disable.

 

 

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