14 DAY TRIAL // If you’re a power user, you certainly agree that keyboard shortcuts are an essential part of your working experience no matter if you use a Mac or a PC.
Keyboard shortcuts make everything so much faster, and in many ways, they have become a feature that millions of users out there simply can’t live without.
But in the case of Google Drive users, those who have until now relied exclusively on the web version actually had no other option than to do it. In other words, Google Drive Web lacked keyboard shortcuts, so users had to rely on mouse input to work with their files.
But enough is enough, as Google has recently announced that Google Drive Web is getting support for keyboard shortcuts.
“You can now use familiar keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C (or ⌘ + C on Mac), Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V to copy, cut and paste Google Drive files in your Chrome browser. This saves you time by allowing you to copy one or more files and move them to new locations in Drive, and across multiple tabs, with fewer clicks. Additionally, a link to the file and its title will also be captured when copying a file, which allows you to easily paste them into a document or an email,” Google explained in an announcement this week.
Of course, all the familiar keyboard shortcuts are supported in Google Drive as well.
“To help you more easily organize files in multiple locations without necessarily creating duplicate files, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + Shift + V will create shortcuts. Lastly, you can open files or folders in a new tab using Ctrl+Enter, so that you can easily view multiple files at once, or use different tabs to more easily organize files between two different folder locations,” Google said.
The rollout of this feature has already started on May 26 and is set to complete in 1 to 3 days since the first wave.