Ctrl-Shift-C

Copy as HTML

Places HTML-rendered Markdown into clipboard

N/A

N/A

Check your CSS Settings (by clicking the Settings button) to set whether you'd like the HTML placed into your clipboard to include the CSS used in the preview window.

Ctrl-B

Bold

Insert bold tags
**|**

Surrounds text with bold tags.
**Selection**

N/A

Ctrk-I

Italics

Inserts italics tags
*|*

Surrounds text with italics tags.
*Selection*

N/A

Ctrl-U

Underline

Inserts HTML markup for underline <u>|</u>

Surrounds selected text with HTML markup for underline. <u>Selection<u>

N/A

Ctrl-G

Insert Image

Inserts an image tag, cursor in src attribute.

![](|)

If selected text ends with an image extension (.jpg, .png, .gif), it is placed in the src attribute, and the cursor is placed in the alt section.

![|](http://example.com/image.png)

Depending on your image settings, may instead produce raw image tags with hard-coded styles

<img src="image.png" alt="" style="trait:value" />

Used as src if appropriate and there is no selected text. Used as alt text with selection if selected text is valid image URL.

Image tag format is set in the "Image Settings" section of Settings (To access Settings, click  )

Right-click the Insert Image icon to force specific image display formats: default, middle, or right.

Ctrl-Shift-G

Upload & Insert Image

Opens a file dialog, uploads selected image to imgur for free hosting, then uses URL to insert an image tag.

Placed in alt section.

Ignored.

This is a BETA feature. Please report any trouble (with this or any feature) to [email protected].

Ctrl-K

Insert Link

Insert link tags with cursor ready to enter link text [|]()

If text is a valid URL, insert text in link text and URL sections, then completely select link text for quick overwrite. [http://www.rufwork.com](http://www.rufwork.com)

Otherwise, text becomes the link text, and cursor is placed in href location: [selected text](|)

Same as selected

N/A

Ctrl-*

Insert Bulleted List

Starts new line with an asterisk (Markdown for a bulleted list)

If no more than a single line is selected, it will be prefixed by "* ". If many lines are selected, asterisks will be inserted at the start of each selected line, whether fully or partially selected.

N/A

Pressing return once will create a new line prefixed by an asterisk. Hitting return again immediately will end the list, and remove the last asterisk.

On non-English (US) keyboards, the shortcut may resolve to Ctrl-Shift-8.

Ctrl-1

Insert Numbered List

Starts a new line with "1. "

If no more than a single line is selected, it will be prefixed by "1. ". If many lines are selected, numbers will be inserted at the start of each selected line, whether fully or partially selected.

N/A

Pressing return once will create a new line prefixed by the next number in the series. Hitting return again immediately will end the list, and remove the last number.

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Ctrl-Shift-H

Highlight

Inserts strong tags with inline CSS to highlight yellow, with a bold font-weight, and leaves the cursor in between the tags.

Puts selection between tags, cursor at end of text.

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Ctrl-#

Insert Header

Inserts a new line immediately before the cursor, places #, the header character, at the lead of the line, then continues with the text that was immediately after the cursor.

Acts the same as with no selected text.

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On non-English (US) keyboards, the shortcut may resolve to Ctrl-Shift-3.

Ctrl->

Quote

Starts a new line, places > at the start of the line, and any text after the cursor is put into the quote.

Acts the same as with no selected text.

N/A

N/A

Ctrl-Shift-V

Paste as Quote

The contents of the clipboard, if resolvable into text, will be inserted at the cursor location, formatted as described in the "Clipboard" column.

Selected text will be replaced by the contents of the clipboard, formatted as described in the "Clipboard" column.

Will take the contents of the clipboard, and paste a quote marker > before each line.

N/A

Alt-V

Paste HTML

The contents of the clipboard, if resolvable into text, will be inserted at the cursor location, formatted as described in the "Clipboard" column.

Selected text will be replaced by the contents of the clipboard, formatted as described in the "Clipboard" column.

If the clipboard contains HTML content, that HTML code will be pasted into the document. If no HTML content is detected, plain text, if available, will be pasted instead.

Note: Each browser has its own clipboard format, and the same selection copied from different browsers can produce slightly different clipboard values.

N/A

Alt-Shift-V

Paste HTML as Quote

The contents of the clipboard, if resolvable into text, will be inserted at the cursor location, formatted as described in the "Clipboard" column.

Selected text will be replaced by the contents of the clipboard, formatted as described in the "Clipboard" column.

HTML code from the clipboard will be pasted into the document, with a > appended to each newline so that the content is surrounded by blockquote HTML tags.

Note: Each browser has its own clipboard format, and the same selection copied from different browsers can produce slightly different clipboard values.

Ctrl-D

Code Block

Inserts ``

If on a single line, surrounds with ``. If multiple lines are included, each line is indented to create a code block.

N/A

Typically used to set aside snippets of programming languages, which will typically be rendered in a monospace (typewriter) font. Some special characters will be ignored within the code block.

Ctrl-N

Add/New File

Opens a new, blank, unsaved tab for editing.

Ctrl-O

Open

Opens an existing Markdown (or other text) file.

Ctrl-S

Save

There are times the file system will, for security purposes, ask you to "check back out" a file.

You will need to reselect the file using the file dialog for it to save correctly.

Ctrl-Shift-S

Save As

Defaults to .md

Ctrl-P (exPort)

Export

Check your CSS Settings (by clicking the Settings button) to set whether you'd like the exported

HTML to include the CSS used in the preview window.

Ctrl-F

Find

Opens the Find & Replace dialog.

• F3 to Find again.
• F4 to Replace any text currently found, then Find again.
• F8 to Replace the find text with the replace text throughout (occurs immediately).

Ctrl-,

Open Settings

Will open the Settings window so you can turn on/off beta features, edit your preview CSS, determine how images are inserted, etc.

Help

Opens the Help window

(If you're in MarkUpDown, you're likely looking at the Help window now.)

Ctrl-W

Close (active) tab

If unsaved, you should be given a chance to save before the tab closes.

N/A

Ctrl-[

Go to previous open tab

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Ctrl-]

Go to next open tab

N/A

N/A

Open App Log

This will open a text file with MarkUpDown debugging information. Please only select this option if instructed to by technical support. Editing this file, even accidentally, could make debugging a problem more difficult in the future.