Tableau Prep Keyboard Shortcuts
Tableau Prep uses standard keyboard shortcuts for managing files, navigating flows, editing data and searching across your steps and calculations. This topic provides a comprehensive reference of available keyboard shortcuts in Tableau Prep.
For information on general keyboard shortcuts across Tableau products, see Keyboard Shortcuts(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Desktop help.
Shortcuts for global navigation and search
Supported in Tableau Prep Builder, Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server version 2026.3 and later.
Use this shortcut to quickly search across your flow steps, clean steps, calculations and field expressions.
| Description | Windows shortcut | Mac shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Search flow | Ctrl+K | Command+K |
Shortcuts file and flow operations
Use these shortcuts to create, save, open and publish your Tableau Prep flows.
| Description | Windows shortcut | Mac shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Open file | Ctrl+O | Command+O |
| New flow | Ctrl+N | Command+N |
| Save file | Ctrl+S | Command+S |
| Save file as | Alt+Ctrl+S | Shift+Command+S |
| Run All | Ctrl+R | Command+R |
| Publish flow | F10 | Not available |
| Quit | Ctrl+Q | Command+Q |
Shortcuts editing and data operations
Use these shortcuts to perform standard editing, clipboard actions and selection management in the data grid or profile pane.
| Description | Windows shortcut | Mac shortcut |
| Undo | Ctrl+Z | Command+Z |
| Redo | Ctrl+Y | Shift+Command+Z |
| Cut | Ctrl+X | Command+X |
| Copy | Ctrl+C | Command+C |
| Paste | Ctrl+V | Command+V |
| Select All | Ctrl+A | Command+A |
| Copy data grid values | Ctrl+C | Command+C |