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A complete reference for the shortcuts wired into Notepad3 (src/Notepad3.rc accelerator table). The in-menu hint after each command is the live source of truth — if a future build moves a binding, the menu shows the current key first.
Regex syntax (used in Find / Replace): see the section "Regular Expression Syntax" of cmdln/CmdLnOptions.md, or the bundled Build/Docs/Oniguruma_RE.txt.
What changed since Notepad2: see the "Migrating from Notepad2" section of the FAQ.
Conventions
Modifier order in this document: Ctrl → Shift → Alt. Notepad3 itself accepts any order.
Key spellings:←→↑↓ are the cursor arrows. + and - mean the regular keyboard keys; numeric-keypad equivalents are noted as Num+, Num-, Num0, etc., where they have a separate binding.
NP2 in the Notes column means "carried over unchanged from Notepad2"; (orig-NP2: …) means "this slot held a different action in Notepad2 — see the FAQ migration table for the full list".
Customising shortcuts is not supported in Notepad3 (the table is compiled in). See the FAQ for workarounds.
File
File operations
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+N
New (clear) document
NP2
Ctrl+F4
New (clear) document
Alias for Ctrl+N (no MDI in Notepad3)
Ctrl+O
Open file…
NP2
F5
Reload current file from disk
NP2
Ctrl+S
Save
NP2
F6
Save as…
NP2
Ctrl+F6
Save a copy…
NP2
Ctrl+Alt+F6
Save preserving original modification time
(N3)
Ctrl+P
Print…
NP2
Ctrl+M
Run MiniPath file browser
NP2
Ctrl+Alt+H
Open recent file (history)…
(orig-NP2: Alt+H)
Alt+F4
Exit Notepad3
Standard Windows
Esc
Cancel auto-completion popup or active selection. If neither is active, optionally minimise / exit (configurable).
NP2
Shift+Esc
Save current file and exit Notepad3
NP2
Path to clipboard
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+F9
Copy filename only to clipboard
The IDM constant is named INSERT_FILENAME for historical reasons, but the action copies — it does not insert.
Ctrl+Shift+F9
Copy full path (directory + filename) to clipboard
Same naming caveat.
Shift+F9
Copy pathname to clipboard (legacy binding)
Identical to Ctrl+Shift+F9 for saved files. For untitled documents, this one copies the localised "Untitled" placeholder.
Launch / external tools
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+Shift+F
Search in files (grepWin)
(orig-NP2: "Recode as default encoding")
Alt+N
Open a new empty Notepad3 window
NP2
Alt+Shift+N
Duplicate current document into a new window (only when Single File Instance is off)
Update existing timestamps in document (regex-driven)
NP2. Pattern is [Settings2] TimeStampRegEx.
Numbers
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+Alt++ (or Ctrl+Alt+Num+)
Increase the number under the caret
NP2
Ctrl+Alt+- (or Ctrl+Alt+Num-)
Decrease the number under the caret
NP2
Find, Replace, Goto
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+F
Find…
NP2
Alt+F3
Save the current find text as the persistent default
NP2
F3
Find next
NP2
Shift+F3
Find previous
NP2
Ctrl+F3
Find next occurrence of the current selection
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+F3
Find previous occurrence of the current selection
NP2
Ctrl+H
Replace…
NP2
F4
Replace next
NP2
Ctrl+G
Goto line / column dialog
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+F
Search in files (grepWin)
(orig-NP2: "Recode as default")
Ctrl+B
Find matching brace — if the caret is at a brace ()[]{} jump to its match; if not at a brace, jump to the nearest enclosing opening brace. If a brace-block selection is active, the caret toggles between the two brace endpoints while preserving the selection. Shows a calltip if no match or no enclosing brace exists.
NP2+
Ctrl+Shift+B
Select to matching brace — selects the brace pair enclosing the caret (inclusive of both braces). Repeated presses expand the selection outward one nesting level at a time. Pressing when the caret is at the closing brace of the current selection pivots the caret to the opening brace (same selection, reversed direction); pressing again when at the opening brace expands to the next outer pair. Shows a calltip if no match or no enclosing brace exists.
NP2+
Ctrl+Alt+F2
Expand selection to next match
(orig-NP2: F2)
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F2
Expand selection to previous match
(orig-NP2: Shift+F2)
Inside the Find / Replace dialog
A dedicated accelerator table applies while the modeless Find/Replace window has focus:
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl+F
Switch to Find tab
Ctrl+H
Switch to Replace tab
F3
Find next (without leaving the dialog)
Shift+F3
Find previous
Alt+F3
Save current pattern as default
F4
Replace next
Ctrl+S
Save dialog window position
Ctrl+R
Reset dialog window position
Bookmarks
Shortcut
Action
Notes
F2
Goto next bookmark
(orig-NP2: expand selection to next match — moved to Ctrl+Alt+F2)
Shift+F2
Goto previous bookmark
(orig-NP2: expand selection to previous match)
Ctrl+F2
Toggle bookmark on current line
(N3)
Alt+F2
Clear all bookmarks
(N3)
Selection
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+Space
Select word at caret — or whole line if word already selected
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+Space
Multi-select all matches of word at caret
(N3)
Alt+Shift+Arrows
Rectangular selection
NP2
Alt+Left-mouse-drag
Rectangular selection
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+.
Copy GUID to clipboard
(N3). The IDM is named INSERT_GUID for historical reasons but the action copies.
Mouse
Action
Effect
Ctrl-click on a hyperlink / URL hotspot
Open in default browser
Alt-click on a hyperlink
Load target as a file in Notepad3
Ctrl-click on a colour swatch (when colour-hotspot highlighting is on)
Open the colour picker
Ctrl-mouse-wheel
Zoom in / out
View
Visual aids
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+W
Toggle word wrap
NP2
Ctrl+Alt+L
Toggle long-line marker
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+G
Toggle indentation guides
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+7
Toggle wrap symbols
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+8
Toggle whitespace markers
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+9
Toggle line-ending markers
NP2
Ctrl+Alt+W
Toggle hyperlink hotspots
(N3)
Ctrl+Shift+V
Toggle visual brace matching
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+I
Highlight current line
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+N
Toggle line numbers
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+M
Toggle bookmark margin
NP2
Mark occurrences
Shortcut
Action
Alt+A
Toggle "mark all occurrences" of current word
Folding
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl+Alt+F
Toggle all folds (collapse / expand all)
Alt++
Jump to next fold point
Alt+-
Jump to previous fold point
Alt+←
Collapse current fold
Alt+→
Expand current fold
Display navigation
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+Alt+V
Focused View — show only lines matching word/selection
(N3)
Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl+PgDn
Goto previous / next block (paragraph or fold)
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+PgUp / Ctrl+Shift+PgDn
Select to previous / next block
NP2
Alt+PageUp
Paragraph navigation up
(N3)
Alt+PageDown
Paragraph navigation down
(N3)
Ctrl+↑
Scroll one line up (without moving caret)
NP2
Ctrl+↓
Scroll one line down (without moving caret)
NP2
Zoom
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl++ (or Ctrl+Num+)
Zoom in
Ctrl+- (or Ctrl+Num-)
Zoom out
Ctrl+0 (or Ctrl+Num0)
Reset zoom to 100 %
Window position
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+Shift+K
Copy current window position to clipboard as /p x,y,cx,cy switch
NP2
Ctrl+Shift+P
Snap window to default position on current monitor
Toggle accelerated word navigation (alternate word separators)
(N3)
Alt+F5
File-change notification settings…
NP2
Window-level toggles
Shortcut
Action
Notes
Ctrl+Shift+L
Toggle "reuse window" for next launch
NP2
Alt+T
Toggle "always on top"
NP2
Alt+G
Toggle transparent mode
NP2
Ctrl+9
Display selected text excerpt in window title
NP2
Configuration file
Shortcut
Action
F7
Save settings now (write Notepad3.ini)
Ctrl+F7
Open Notepad3.ini in the editor
Help
Shortcut
Action
F1
Open online documentation
Shift+F1
About dialog
Cheatsheet — function keys at a glance
A compact summary of the function-key family (most frequent collisions):
Key
Plain
Ctrl
Shift
Alt
Ctrl+Shift
Ctrl+Alt
Ctrl+Shift+Alt
F1
Online docs
—
About
—
—
—
—
F2
Goto next bookmark
Toggle bookmark
Goto prev bookmark
Clear all bookmarks
—
Expand sel to next match
Expand sel to prev match
F3
Find next
Find next selection
Find previous
Save find text
Find prev selection
—
—
F4
Replace next
New (clear) doc
—
Exit
—
—
—
F5
Reload file
Insert short date
Update timestamps
File-change notify
Insert long date
—
—
F6
Save as
Save copy
—
—
—
Save preserving mtime
—
F7
Save settings now
Open INI
—
—
—
—
—
F8
Recode (encoding)
Insert encoding ID
Reload as UTF-8
Skip encoding tags
Reload ASCII as UTF-8
—
—
F9
Encoding dialog
Copy filename
Copy path
Manage favorites
Copy full path
—
—
F10
(system menu)
Path → URL
—
URL → Path
Recode GB18030
—
—
F11
Fullscreen toggle
Initial position
Default text scheme
—
—
—
—
F12
Pick scheme
Customize schemes
2nd common base
Default font
—
Scheme default font
—
Cheatsheet — caret & view navigation
A single-stop reference for moving the caret, scrolling the view, and jumping between document landmarks. Repeats keys already listed in the topical sections above so the cheatsheet stands alone. Notepad3 inherits Scintilla's default keymap unchanged (no SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY overrides), so the standard caret bindings below all work even though they are not part of Notepad3's accelerator table.
Caret movement (basics)
Shortcut
Action
← / →
Char left / right
↑ / ↓
Line up / down
Home / End
Line start / end
Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+End
Document start / end
PageUp / PageDown
Page up / down
Shift+movement
Extend selection in that direction
Ctrl+Shift+movement
Extend selection by word / document chunk
Word navigation
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→
Caret one word left / right
Ctrl+Backspace
Delete word before caret
Ctrl+Del
Delete word after caret
Ctrl+Alt+A
Toggle Accelerated Word Navigation (see below)
Ctrl+Space
Select word at caret (full line if word already selected)
Ctrl+Shift+Space
Multi-select all matches of word at caret
Accelerated Word Navigation (Ctrl+Alt+A) merges punctuation into the word-character set, so word-jump keys (Ctrl+←, Ctrl+→, Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Del) skip whole code tokens at once.
Example — caret stops in foo->bar.baz walking with Ctrl+→:
off: foo | -> | bar | . | baz (5 stops)
on: foo->bar.baz (1 stop)
Fine-tune which characters still break words via [Settings2] ExtendedWhiteSpaceChars= — see config/Configuration.md. The toggle is persisted in [Settings] AccelWordNavigation=.
View / scroll
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl+↑ / Ctrl+↓
Scroll one line up / down (caret stays put)
Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl+PgDn
Goto previous / next block (paragraph or fold)
Ctrl+Shift+PgUp / Ctrl+Shift+PgDn
Select to previous / next block
Alt+PageUp / Alt+PageDown
Paragraph navigation up / down
Ctrl+Alt+V
Focused View — show only lines matching word/selection
Ctrl+G
Goto line / column dialog
Bookmarks & change history
Shortcut
Action
F2
Goto next bookmark — falls through to next change-history marker if no further bookmark is found (sticky)
Shift+F2
Goto previous bookmark — same fallback
Ctrl+F2
Toggle bookmark on current line
Alt+F2
Clear all bookmarks
If the document has no bookmarks (or none ahead of the caret in the search direction), F2 / Shift+F2 walk change-history markers instead — modified, saved, and reverted lines shown in the change-history margin (see View → Change History). Once a press has landed the caret on a change-history marker, repeated presses keep walking change-history markers until you reach a bookmarked line.
Find navigation
Shortcut
Action
F3
Find next
Shift+F3
Find previous
Ctrl+F3
Find next occurrence of current selection
Ctrl+Shift+F3
Find previous occurrence of current selection
F4
Replace next
Ctrl+Alt+F2
Expand selection to next match
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F2
Expand selection to previous match
Alt+A
Toggle "mark all occurrences" of current word
Brace navigation
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl+B
Find matching brace (or jump to nearest enclosing opening brace)
Ctrl+Shift+B
Select to matching brace; repeated presses expand the selection outward one nesting level at a time
Folding
Shortcut
Action
Alt+← / Alt+→
Collapse / expand current fold
Alt+- / Alt++
Jump to previous / next fold point
Ctrl+Alt+F
Toggle all folds
Selection-boundary jumps
Shortcut
Action
Ctrl+,
Jump caret to selection start
Ctrl+.
Jump caret to selection end
See also
faq/FAQ.md — "Migrating from Notepad2" lists every shortcut whose meaning was reassigned, plus the why.