need keyboard shortcut for strikethrough formatting

22 votes

Currently the only way to apply striketrhough formatting is ~'s on each end of the line, which takes a lot of cursor movement/mouse movements if you use that format a lot. We need a keyboard shortcut for it.

Under consideration editor effort-low hotkeys Suggested by: Brian Cohen (28 Dec, '20) • Upvoted: 17 Jan • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

15 Jan, '21
Brian Cohen Admin
You can accelerate the schedule for this if you can find a hotkey that is currently unused across macOS and Windows in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Finding unused shortcut keys is one of the more unpleasant tasks that the dev team avoids.
15 Feb, '21
Nyssa
This already exists to some extent, correct? If you hit Ctrl + Space, strikethrough is applied to the whole block.
17 May, '21
Lucian Admin
@Bill, we could use Ctrl-Shift-` (should be unused and easy to remember since it's like Ctrl-~, and we use tilda for strikethrough).
03 Jun, '21
28x44
Ctrl-Space is used in Windows to switch keyboard languages.
Ctrl-Shift-` produces characters.

I would recommend something with Alt.
1. Alt-S like Strikethrough or Alt-T like the icon
2. Hold Alt to allow pressing a number to activate a certain formatting option from the top.
a. 1 Bold 2 Italics 3 Strikethrough and so on for options that are common and/or don't have a good shortcut
3. A totally different shortcut to instead activate the formatting toolbar, then allow using Tab or arrow keys (regular, numpad arrows or WASD) to go through formatting options.
28 May, '23
Curtis Long
This would be quite helpful. To add to the possible hotkey/shortcut options:

In Google Docs and Gmail, strikethrough is Alt-Shift-5.
In Evernote Legacy Windows it's Ctrl-T.
20 Nov, '23
David Trapp
Ctrl+T also makes sense for me because the icon has a T in the formatting toolbar too, just like bold has B and is Ctrl+B and italic has an I and is Ctrl+I.
13 Mar, '24
Curtis Long
Poor little Strikethrough STILL doesn't have it's own shortcut/hotkey. 🥺

I do miss this ability, having grown so accustomed to using alt+shift+5 in Google tools, like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets.

Ctrl+5 as used in Excel would be okay, too. ANYTHING would be better than nothing! 😅
01 May, '24
tinker
options,
ctrl-shift-x (upnote) prefer, easy to remember x mnemonic, and press with single hand.
"Ctrl" + "-", (onenote)