Hotkeys

Lilt Translate is designed with a range of keyboard shortcuts that enable linguists to operate the editor entirely from the keyboard. Mastering these hotkeys will help linguists save time when processing documents.

Hotkeys work across all languages. However, some hotkeys may not always be available for a given document. For example:

If the language pair doesn't have Contextual AI support, Lilt does not generate suggestions, meaning the autocompletion hotkeys will not be available.
If the document does not have any tags, the tag hotkeys will not be available.

Options that are unavailable are grayed out in the header toolbar.

⭐ = most important hotkeys to know

Text operations

	Action	Mac hotkey	Windows hotkey
⭐	Insert highlighted phrase suggestion	`Return`	`Enter`
	Select next phrase suggestion	`Shift`+`Tab`	`Shift`+`Tab`
⭐	Insert full suggestion	`Shift`+`Return`	`Shift`+`Enter`
	Toggle case of selected target text	`Shift`+`F3`	`Shift`+`F3`
	Insert non-breaking space	`⌘`+`Shift`+`Space`	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Space`
	Insert line break	`Option`+`Enter`	`Alt`+`Enter`
	Copy source to target	`⌘`+`I`	`Ctrl`+`I`
	Insert right to left marker	`⌘`+`K`	`Ctrl`+`K`
	Insert left to right marker	`⌘`+`L`	`Ctrl`+`L`
	Undo last change	`⌘`+`Z`	`Ctrl`+`Z`

Text navigation

Action	Mac hotkey	Windows hotkey
Move cursor one character forward	`Right`	`Right`
Move cursor one character backward	`Left`	`Left`
Move cursor one word forward	`Option`+`Right`	`Ctrl`+`Right`
Move cursor one word backward	`Option`+`Left`	`Ctrl`+`Left`
Select character forward	`Shift`+`Right`	`Shift`+`Right`
Select character backward	`Shift`+`Left`	`Shift`+`Left`
Select word forward	`Option`+`Shift`+`Right`	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Right`
Select word backward	`Option`+`Shift`+`Left`	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Left`

Segment actions

	Action	Mac hotkey	Windows hotkey
⭐	Confirm/unconfirm segment	`⌘`+`Return`	`Ctrl`+`Enter`
	Go to next unconfirmed/unaccepted segment	`⌘`+`Down`	`Ctrl`+`Down`
	Go to previous unconfirmed/unaccepted segment	`⌘`+`Up`	`Ctrl`+`Up`
	Go to next segment	`⌘`+`Option`+`Down`	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Down`
	Go to previous segment	`⌘`+`Option`+`Up`	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Up`
	Open comments	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`M`	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`M`

Tools

Action	Mac hotkey	Windows hotkey
Open Concordance	`⌘`+`Option`+`C`	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`C`
Open find & replace	`⌘`+`H`	`Ctrl`+`H`
Open form to Add New Terminology	`Option`+`A`	`Alt`+`A`
Toggle preview mode	`Ctrl`+`⌘`+`P`	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`P`
Close TM diff view	`Esc`	`Esc`

Quality assurance

	Action	Mac hotkey	Windows hotkey
	Run full Auto Review	`F7`	`F7`
	Run batch Auto Review	`F9`	`F9`

Action	Mac hotkey	Windows hotkey
Select next tag¹	`⌘`+`]`	`Ctrl`+`]`
Select previous tag²	`⌘`+`[`	`Ctrl`+`[`
Select matching tag (in a tag pair)	`Option`+`Shift`	`Alt`+`Shift`
Move selected tag one word left (if character-based language, moves 5 characters left)	`M` or `H`	`M` or `H`
Move selected tag one character left	`,` or `J`	`,` or `J`
Move selected tag one character right	`.` or `K`	`.` or `K`
Move selected tag one word right (if character-based language, moves 5 characters right)	`/` or `L`	`/` or `L`

Text operations

Text navigation

Segment actions

Tags

Tools

Quality assurance