Keyboard Shortcuts in Dynamics 365 CRM

Published: 15 January 2025

Summary

As well as the widely used Windows keyboard shortcuts such as CTRL+C (to copy some text) and CTRL+V (to paste some text), Dynamics also supports a number of other keyboard shortcuts specific to Dynamics. See if you can boost your productivity by building some of these into your daily use of Dynamics CRM.

How do I do this?

Our favourite keyboard shortcuts in Dynamics includes the following:

What about control specific keyboard shortcuts?

Different control types offer a few more options. For example, when on an Editable Grid control you can use the arrow keys to move up and down the records and across between different fields on the editable grid. When the correct field is selected, use the Space bar to make a field in the grid editable and Esc to cancel any changes.

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And when a Date/Time field has been selected, Enter will open the date picker, Esc will close the date picker and you can use Tab and the arrow keys to move through the dates and Enter to select the date that you want.

Additional Information

You can find details on all the Keyboard shortcuts available within Dynamics CRM here. If you’re running iOS instead of Windows the shortcuts will be different but most should have an equivalent on iOS.

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