Hotkeys
Here we have listed the hotkeys available in Overleaf. For Mac users, the below commands will use the Cmd key instead of Ctrl.
This list contains shortcuts for the Source editor, still most of them also work in the Source (Legacy) editor.
Command | Operation |
---|---|
Ctrl + F | Find and replace. |
Ctrl + Enter or Ctrl + S |
Compile the project. |
Ctrl + Z | Undo. |
Ctrl + Y | Redo. |
Ctrl + Home | Go to the first line of the current file. |
Ctrl + End | Go to the last line of the current file. |
Ctrl + Shift + L | Go to a specific line (opens a dialog). Use Ctrl + L in the Source (Legacy) editor. |
Ctrl + / | Toggle commenting for selected lines. (Comment/uncomment selected text.) |
Ctrl + D | Delete the current line. |
Ctrl + A | Select all. |
Tab | Indent the selection. |
Shift + Tab | Un-indent the selection. |
Ctrl + U | Change the selected text to upper case. |
Ctrl + Shift + U | Change the selected text to lower case. |
Ctrl + B | Bold. |
Ctrl + I | Italics. |
Ctrl + Space | Open the autocomplete menu, inside of \cite{...} search the bibliography.(Use Ctrl + Space also on Mac, rather than Cmd + Space) |
A more comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts can be found in this Overleaf project template.
Overleaf guides
- Creating a document in Overleaf
- Uploading a project
- Copying a project
- Creating a project from a template
- Using the Overleaf project menu
- Including images in Overleaf
- Exporting your work from Overleaf
- Working offline in Overleaf
- Using Track Changes in Overleaf
- Using bibliographies in Overleaf
- Sharing your work with others
- Using the History feature
- Debugging Compilation timeout errors
- How-to guides
- Guide to Overleaf’s premium features
LaTeX Basics
- Creating your first LaTeX document
- Choosing a LaTeX Compiler
- Paragraphs and new lines
- Bold, italics and underlining
- Lists
- Errors
Mathematics
- Mathematical expressions
- Subscripts and superscripts
- Brackets and Parentheses
- Matrices
- Fractions and Binomials
- Aligning equations
- Operators
- Spacing in math mode
- Integrals, sums and limits
- Display style in math mode
- List of Greek letters and math symbols
- Mathematical fonts
- Using the Symbol Palette in Overleaf
Figures and tables
- Inserting Images
- Tables
- Positioning Images and Tables
- Lists of Tables and Figures
- Drawing Diagrams Directly in LaTeX
- TikZ package
References and Citations
- Bibliography management with bibtex
- Bibliography management with natbib
- Bibliography management with biblatex
- Bibtex bibliography styles
- Natbib bibliography styles
- Natbib citation styles
- Biblatex bibliography styles
- Biblatex citation styles
Languages
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec
- International language support
- Quotations and quotation marks
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
Document structure
- Sections and chapters
- Table of contents
- Cross referencing sections, equations and floats
- Indices
- Glossaries
- Nomenclatures
- Management in a large project
- Multi-file LaTeX projects
- Hyperlinks
Formatting
- Lengths in LaTeX
- Headers and footers
- Page numbering
- Paragraph formatting
- Line breaks and blank spaces
- Text alignment
- Page size and margins
- Single sided and double sided documents
- Multiple columns
- Counters
- Code listing
- Code Highlighting with minted
- Using colours in LaTeX
- Footnotes
- Margin notes
Fonts
Presentations
Commands
Field specific
- Theorems and proofs
- Chemistry formulae
- Feynman diagrams
- Molecular orbital diagrams
- Chess notation
- Knitting patterns
- CircuiTikz package
- Pgfplots package
- Typesetting exams in LaTeX
- Knitr
- Attribute Value Matrices
Class files
- Understanding packages and class files
- List of packages and class files
- Writing your own package
- Writing your own class