I wish Adobe Reader & Acrobat had keyboard shortcuts for 1-up & 2-up like MacOS Preview has
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/28
Preview on MacOS has a great set of zoom keyboard shortcuts. They all feel very natural, and unlike Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, include shortcuts for one-page view and two-page view.
The screenshot on the right shows all of them in the menu, as somehow a simple Google Search did only reveal a page documenting a limited set of them. So further below, I will document the list.
The same holds for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat: it’s hard to find a good list of all view related keyboard shortcuts even when trying multiple times.
I did find a few pages though with partial lists of keyboard shortcuts, so I gobbled them together below in another table.
Preview View menu keyboard shortcuts
(I removed all entries that did not have a keyboard shortcut)
| Function | Shortcut | Shortcut in text |
|---|---|---|
| Show All Tabs | ⇧⌘\ |
⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+Backslash \ |
| Hide Sidebar | ⌥⌘1 |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+1 |
| Thumbnails | ⌥⌘2 |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+2 |
| Table of Contents | ⌥⌘3 |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+3 |
| Highlights and Notes | ⌥⌘4 |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+4 |
| Bookmarks | ⌥⌘5 |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+5 |
| Contact Sheet | ⌥⌘6 |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+6 |
| Continuous Scroll | ⌘1 |
⌘ Command+1 |
| Single Page | ⌘2 |
⌘ Command+2 |
| Two Pages | ⌘3 |
⌘ Command+3 |
| Show Document Background | ⌥⌘B |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+B |
| Actual Size | ⌘0 |
⌘ Command+0 |
| Zoom to Fit | ⌘9 |
⌘ Command+9 |
| Zoom In | ⌘+ |
⌘ Command+Plus + |
| Zoom Out | ⌘- |
⌘ Command+Minus - |
| Zoom to Selection | ⌘* |
⌘ Command+Asterix * |
| Show Markup Toolbar | ⇧⌘A |
⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+A |
| Hide Toolbar | ⌥⌘T |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+aT |
| Slideshow | ⇧⌘F |
⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+F |
| Enter Full Screen | ^⌘F |
^ Control+⌘ Command+F |
Adobe Reader view related keyboard shortcuts
(these are for Windows as there is no Adobe Reader for MacOS)
| Function | Shortcut | Shortcut in text |
|---|---|---|
| Rotate view: Clockwise | ⇧^+ |
⇧ Shift+^ Control+Backslash \ |
| Rotate view: Counterclockwise | ⇧^- |
⇧ Shift+^ Control+Minus- |
| Page Display: Automatically Scroll | ⇧^H |
⇧ Shift+^ Control+H |
| Zoom: Zoom To | ^Y |
^ Control+Y |
| Zoom: Actual Size | ^1 |
^ Control+1 |
| Zoom: Zoom to Page Level | ^0 |
^ Control+0 |
| Zoom: Fit Width | ^2 |
^ Control+2 |
| Zoom: Fit Visible | ^3 |
^ Control+3 |
| Zoom: Reflow | ^4 |
^ Control+4 |
| Read Mode | ^H |
^ Control+H |
| Full Screen Mode | ^L |
^ Control+L |
| Show Hide: Tools Pane | ⇧F4 |
⇧ Shift++F4 |
| Show Hide: Menu Bar | F9 |
F9 |
| Zoom In | ⌘+ |
⌘ Command+Plus + |
| Zoom Out | ⌘- |
⌘ Command+Minus - |
| Zoom to Selection | ⌘* |
⌘ Command+Asterix * |
| Show Markup Toolbar | ⇧⌘A |
⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+A |
| Hide Toolbar | ⌥⌘T |
⌥ Option+⌘ Command+aT |
| Slideshow | ⇧⌘F |
⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+F |
| Enter Full Screen | ^⌘F |
^ Control+⌘ Command+F |
Queries & results
Because the below didn’t give me complete tables, I created the above ones.
- [Wayback/Archive] adobe acrobat keyboard shortcut for view page width – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] adobe reader keyboard shortcut for view page width – Recherche Google
Adobe results
- [Wayback/Archive] Acrobat View Shortcuts: 10 Ways to View and Zoom in Documents
- Zoom In: [Ctrl] + = (equals)
- Zoom Out: [Ctrl] + – (minus)
- Zoom To (set Zoom level): [Ctrl] + Y
- Fit Page: [Ctrl] + 0 (zero)
- Actual Size: [Ctrl] + 1
- Fit Width: [Ctrl] + 2
- Fit Visible: [Ctrl] + 3
- Reading Mode: [Ctrl] + H (press [Esc] to cancel)
- Full Screen Mode: [Ctrl] + L (press [Esc] to cancel)
- Automatically Scroll: : [Ctrl] + [Shift] + H (press [Esc] to cancel)
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–jeroen
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