The Sims 4

Live mode

Find active Sim

⤶ Enter

All hotkeys for The Sims 4

General
Change camera type

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + ⭾ Tab

Camera controls in live and build mode
Take a screenshot. In Game Options you can choose to include the game interface in screenshots

C

Camera controls in live and build mode
Start or stop video recording

V

General
Open the Gallery, where you can view other players' creations and add them to your neighborhood

F4

Camera controls in live and build mode
Walls up

Home

Camera controls in live and build mode
Walls down

End

Camera controls in live and build mode
Go up a floor

Page Up

Camera controls in live and build mode
Go down a floor

Page Down

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move Around the Neighborhood

Mouse movement

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view up

W

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view up

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view left

A

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view left

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view down

S

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view down

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view right

D

Camera controls in live and build mode
Move view right

Camera controls in live and build mode
Center on current Lot

↑   Shift + ⤶ Enter

Live mode
(click on Sim portrait) Select that Sim

Mouse left click

Camera controls in live and build mode
(on Sim picture) Make Camera follow that Sim

Mouse right click

Camera controls in live and build mode
Rotate view or tilt camera up/down to change angles

Mouse movement

Camera controls in live and build mode
Zoom in and out

Z

Camera controls in live and build mode
Zoom in and out

X

Camera controls in live and build mode
Zoom in and out

Mouse wheel up and down

Live mode
Bring up main menu or cancel current operation

Esc

Live mode
Find active Sim

⤶ Enter

Live mode
Select the next Sim in the Household

Space

Live mode
Select the next Sim in the Household

N

Buy and Build mode
Toggle the grid

G

Live mode
Show Sim's inventory

I

Live mode
Show Career tab

J

Buy and Build mode
Change lighting from morning to afternoon, evening and night to preview how things look. It will not change actual time

L

Buy and Build mode
Design Tool. Recolor objects to create color schemes

R

Live mode
Show Simology

Y

Live mode
Show Sim's current need levels. Clicking on a need icon will order the Sim to fulfill it

O

Live mode
Go to Map mode

M

Live mode
Pause Sims 4

~

Live mode
Pause Sims 4

P

Live mode
Speed 1 (normal)

1

Live mode
Speed 2

2

Live mode
Speed 3

3

Live mode
Access cheat console

Control + ↑   Shift + C

Buy and Build mode
Live mode (Normal Gameplay)

F1

Buy and Build mode
Buy mode

F2

Buy and Build mode
Build mode

F3

Buy and Build mode
Switch to Hand tool. In this mode you can grab objects

H

Buy and Build mode
Wall tool

B

Buy and Build mode
Hold while painting terrain to erase and change terrain to default

Ctrl

Buy and Build mode
Hold while painting walls and floors: Will fill an entire room with the selected floor or wall pattern

↑   Shift

Buy and Build mode
Eyedroppert tool. Copy an object quickly

E

Buy and Build mode
Sledgehammer tool. Allows you to destroy objects

K

Buy and Build mode
After selecting an object but before placing it, pressing + on the num pad will cycle through color options for that item, allowing you to find what looks right for that room

Num +

Buy and Build mode
Press while holding an object to place it in the Household inventory. Good for storing multiple things fast

⬅ Backspace

Buy and Build mode
Rotate selected object left

,

Buy and Build mode
Rotate selected object right

.

Buy and Build mode
While painting, holding Alt fills a straight wall with the selected wall pattern

Alt

Buy and Build mode
This will let you position objects relative to the grid, but at 1/2 to 1/4 the usual distance. Good for precision

F5

Buy and Build mode
While laying floor, do 1/4 of a tile at a time (little triangle) for artsy design

Control + F

Buy and Build mode
Make brush size smaller while painting terrain. Also cycles through square/circle brushes

[

Buy and Build mode
Make brush size larger while painting terrain. Also cycles through square/circle brushes

]

Buy and Build mode
Make brush softer when painting terrain

;

Buy and Build mode
Make brush harder when painting terrain

'

Buy and Build mode
Undo

Ctrl + Z

Buy and Build mode
Redo last action you undid

Ctrl + Y

Buy and Build mode
Delete or sell selected object

Del

Buy and Build mode
Switch to top-down view. Press again to go back to previous view

T

Buy and Build mode
Press U, then click house to relocate the entire structure on the lot. It may be moved or rotated

U

Bonus: Cheats
Show the cheat console, so you can enter cheat texts below

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + C

Bonus: Cheats
Increases the size of objects

↑   Shift + ]

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Open selection
Commander style

⤶ Enter


Xyplorer
Start File Find when any control on the find files tab is focused (except the textbox on the Contents tab, where this key just creates a new paragraph)
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⤶ Enter


Todoist
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⤶ Enter


Solidworks 2019
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Execute command
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Webflow
Edit element
General

⤶ Enter


Skipper
Edit selected element
Visual model shortcuts

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Fortnite (PC)
Chat
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ChessBase 13
Open selected database/start training
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⤶ Enter


Miscreated
Chat
Chat

⤶ Enter


dbForge SQL Complete
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General

⤶ Enter


App Maker
Open the special editor for the selected widget, if supported
Page editor shortcuts - Mac

⤶ Enter


Discourse
Open selected topic
Navigation

⤶ Enter


Flyff
Activate the Chat Box and enter any text you have typed. Note that if you press the arrow down key, you will access previous chats that you have imputed
General

⤶ Enter


KiCad 5.0.2
Left click
Page Layout Editor

⤶ Enter


Apex Legends (PC)
Message team
Communication

⤶ Enter


Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Confirm
General

⤶ Enter


The Secret of Monkey Island
Select objects on the screen for use in the sentence line
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⤶ Enter


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Enter chat
Special

⤶ Enter


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Enter/exit the car
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LDView
Fullscreen view
General

⤶ Enter


LDCad
Open a relevant dialog for the current selection or model
Editor

⤶ Enter


Europa Universalis IV
Accepts some dialog windows
General

⤶ Enter


Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Interact / Use / Talk / Pick Up
General

⤶ Enter


Banner 9 (Windows, Mac)
Choose/Submit
Mac shortcuts

⤶ Enter


RStudio (Mac)
Stage/Unstage and move to next (Git)
Git / SVN

⤶ Enter


RStudio
Stage/Unstage and move to next (Git)
Git / SVN

⤶ Enter


IPython Shell
Select the command
Command history

⤶ Enter


Oracle RightNow
Edit selected item
Explorers and reports

⤶ Enter


EasyWorship
Put extra spacing between lines of text
Editor

⤶ Enter


GeoGebra
Toggle input Graphics View and Input Bar
Mac desktop

⤶ Enter


The Forest
Send message to players
Multiplayer

⤶ Enter


American Truck Simulator
Confirm selection
Miscellaneous

⤶ Enter


Ableton Live 10 (Mac)
Load Selected Device From Browser
Working with Plug-Ins and Devices

⤶ Enter


DayZ
Toggle Between 1st Person (1PP) and 3rd Person (3PP) Perspectives
General

⤶ Enter


Ableton Live 10
Load Selected Device From Browser
Working with Plug-Ins and Devices

⤶ Enter


VisualBoyAdvance-M
Start button
General controls

⤶ Enter


Tableau (Mac)
Add the selected field to the sheet (only works with a single field)
Authoring views (Tableau Desktop)

⤶ Enter


Tableau
Add the selected field to the sheet (only works with a single field)
Authoring views (Tableau Desktop)

⤶ Enter


JS Bin
Execute command
Console panel

⤶ Enter


ARK: Survival Evolved
Global Chat
Chat

⤶ Enter


TextMate
Continue block comment
PHP

⤶ Enter


Google Chrome
Search with your default search engine
Address bar

⤶ Enter


cPanel & WHM
Open selected item
Left navigation menu

⤶ Enter


Gitter
Go to the selected room once you have focus
Global shortcuts

⤶ Enter


Evolution
Open in new window
Mail Component - Selection

⤶ Enter


Sketch
Shape Edit Mode
Vector points

⤶ Enter


ProtonMail
Open the marked message / conversation
Mail - Navigation

⤶ Enter


Bitbucket Cloud
View selected item
Most pages

⤶ Enter


Jupyter Notebook
Enter edit mode
Command mode

⤶ Enter


FastMail
Open
Navigate, refresh, select & pin

⤶ Enter


Nuclide (Linux)
Opens the selected entry in the Project Explorer’s File Tree. If a directory is selected, then the directory is expanded. If a file is selected, then the file is opened in the main Editing Area.
Project Explorer’s file tree

⤶ Enter


Nuclide (Mac)
Opens the selected entry in the Project Explorer’s File Tree. If a directory is selected, then the directory is expanded. If a file is selected, then the file is opened in the main Editing Area.
Project Explorer’s file tree

⤶ Enter


draw.io
Start editing label of selected cell
Labels

⤶ Enter


Company of Heroes
Toggle team chat
General

⤶ Enter


Winamp
Play selected file
Playlist control shortcuts

⤶ Enter


PyCharm 2018.2
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⤶ Enter


WorkZone Client
(when the focus is set on a list item) Add this item to another list
Add case/document/contact references dialog boxes

⤶ Enter


Google Keep Notes
Edit selected note
Actions

⤶ Enter


Trello
Open card
General

⤶ Enter


Asana
New Task
Task Actions

⤶ Enter


Asana (Mac)
New Task
Task Actions

⤶ Enter


Freshdesk
Open the ticket
Ticket Details page

⤶ Enter


Feedreader
If pressed while in articles list, opens article web page in minibrowser or external browser
General

⤶ Enter


Shotcut (Mac)
Open Selected
Playlist

⤶ Enter


Shotcut
Open Selected
Playlist

⤶ Enter


Adobe Photoshop Elements (Mac)
(crop tool) Accept cropping or exit cropping
Selecting and moving objects

⤶ Enter


Zendesk Support
Drill into an item
List navigation

⤶ Enter


Stack Exchange
Go to selected question
General

⤶ Enter


Atlassian JIRA Agile
View selected Issue
Issue actions and navigator

⤶ Enter


ArtRage Studio Pro
Clear Canvas Mode
Panel Commands

⤶ Enter


Quicken 2018
Record a transaction
Register and Write Checks

⤶ Enter


9gag
Open tweet details
Actions

⤶ Enter


Total War: Attila (Mac)
Deselect all
Selection

⤶ Enter


Total War: Attila
Deselect all
Selection

⤶ Enter


Evernote for Windows
Set focus in the note editor of the selected note
Note List

⤶ Enter


Adobe Lightroom Classic (Mac)
Play slide show
Working in the Slideshow module

⤶ Enter


Adobe Lightroom Classic
Play slide show
Working in the Slideshow module

⤶ Enter


AI War Classic
Open the chat window
General

⤶ Enter


Bluebeam Revu
Complete markup
Markup & editing

⤶ Enter


Black Desert Online
Open chat
General

⤶ Enter


Path of Exile
Chat
General

⤶ Enter


Aegisub
Move to the next subtitle line, creating a new one if needed
Subtitle edit box

⤶ Enter


Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Text chat
Interface

⤶ Enter


Diablo II
Opens / Closes In-Game chat overlay
General

⤶ Enter


Minecraft Bedrock Edition
Open / close chat
Keyboard & mouse controls

⤶ Enter


Nuke
(Bezier/Spline tools) Close shape
Roto / RotoPaint

⤶ Enter


Kindle for Mac
Next Page
Reading a Book

⤶ Enter


Fez
Pause
General

⤶ Enter


Diablo
Open message window or send message
General

⤶ Enter


Terraria
Chat
Gameplay

⤶ Enter


Kindle for PC
Open selected book to last (go to last page read)
From Library

⤶ Enter


Twist
Post a message
Navigation (macOS)

⤶ Enter


Google Search
Go to current result
General

⤶ Enter


World of Tanks
Activate battle chat. Also press Enter to send your message
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⤶ Enter


DuckDuckGo
Go to the highlighted result, or use it right away to go to the first result
Results

⤶ Enter


Adobe Photoshop CC
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Using panels

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Word 2016
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Insert special characters

⤶ Enter


Windows PowerShell ISE
Repeat Last Command (for Step Into or Step Over)
Script debugging

⤶ Enter


Inkscape
start a new line or paragraph
Text tool

⤶ Enter


KMPlayer
Toggle full screen mode
General

⤶ Enter


SimpleMind
Add sibling topic
General

⤶ Enter


Reddit
Collapse / expand comment
Actions

⤶ Enter


Kibana
Select the currently selected or the top most term in auto-complete menu
When auto-complete is visible

⤶ Enter


Euro Truck Simulator 2
Confirm selection
Vehicle controls

⤶ Enter


Blood
Use selected inventory item
Keyboard

⤶ Enter


Autodesk SketchBook (Mac)
Play/Stop
Tools

⤶ Enter


Autodesk SketchBook (Windows)
OK
Hotkeys in SketchBook for Windows 10

⤶ Enter


Xodo
Next Search
Other shortcuts

⤶ Enter


Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac)
Next Row Field
Project panel

⤶ Enter


Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows)
Next Row Field
Project panel

⤶ Enter


Oracle PeopleTools
On a look up page, activates the Lookup button.
General

⤶ Enter


Microsoft FrontPage
Perform the action for the selected item in a smart tag menu.
Access and use smart tags

⤶ Enter


Dota 2
Opens chat window to send a message to everyone in your team.
Chat

⤶ Enter


Clip Studio Paint Pro
Fix
Shortcuts used during operation

⤶ Enter


ImageJ
Bring "ImageJ" window to front
General

⤶ Enter


Atom (Windows)
(Source: Tree View) core:confirm
All shortcuts

⤶ Enter


LightWave 3D
Create key
Layout: General

⤶ Enter


Warcraft III
Activate message prompt. Press Enter again to send message
Game commands

⤶ Enter


Corel Painter
Attribute dialog box for current layer
Adjuster tools

⤶ Enter


Riffstation Desktop
Play / pause
General

⤶ Enter


Corel Painter (Mac)
Attribute dialog box for current layer
Adjuster tools

⤶ Enter


CodeMirror
Insert a newline and auto-indent the new line
General (Mac)

⤶ Enter


GitHub
Complete the move in progress
Project boards: Moving a card

⤶ Enter


Chromebook and Chrome OS
Go to the next match for your search
Page and web browser

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (Most used shortcuts)
[Class Diagram] View.ViewCode
View

⤶ Enter


Adobe XD (Windows)
Edit Text
Operations menu

⤶ Enter


Adobe XD (Mac)
Edit Text
Operations menu

⤶ Enter


Ditto
Paste Selected Items in the Target Window, or Enter Group (if the item is a Group)
General

⤶ Enter


Microsoft PowerPoint (Slideshows)
while a hyperlink is selected: Perform the "mouse click" behavior of the selected hyperlink. (Follow a selected hyperlink)
Control your slide show during the presentation

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (All shortcuts)
Edit.BreakLine
Windows Forms Designer

⤶ Enter


Apple iBooks
Complete a cell entry and select the cell
Create cell references in formulas

⤶ Enter


GIMP
Set the new value
Dialogs

⤶ Enter


LibreOffice Impress
Change to Normal Mode with the active slide
Slide Sorter

⤶ Enter


Kodi
Player controls (OSD)
Music visualisation

⤶ Enter


Microsoft PowerPoint (Creating presentations)
Start a new paragraph
Move around in and work in tables

⤶ Enter


LibreOffice Base
Completes the input in the field and places the cursor into the next field
Control properties

⤶ Enter


LibreOffice Draw
Change to Normal Mode with the active slide
Navigating in the Slide Sorter

⤶ Enter


Office Delve
Select the highlighted area or item. If you have highlighted the title area of a content card, press Enter to open the document. If you have highlighted the expand area at the bottom of a content card, press the Spacebar to view more details for the document
General

⤶ Enter


LibreOffice Calc
(in a selected range) Moves the cursor down one cell in a selected range. To specify the direction that the cursor moves, choose Tools - Options' - LibreOffice Calc - General'
Navigating

⤶ Enter


GNU Emacs
Complete and execute
The minibuffer

⤶ Enter


BBC iPlayer
Activate buttons
General

⤶ Enter


LibreOffice
Switches between themes view and object view
Gallery preview area

⤶ Enter


Netflix
Toggle play / pause
General

⤶ Enter


Apple GarageBand
Go to beginning
General

⤶ Enter


Tekla Structures 20
Repeat last command
General

⤶ Enter


Grand Theft Auto V
Select marker
Clip edit mode

⤶ Enter


MindMeister
Commit changes
Select and edit

⤶ Enter


Android
Open an e-mail (from the main inbox list)
Gmail

⤶ Enter


Apple Pages
Complete a cell entry and move the selection down
Editing chart data

⤶ Enter


Buffer
Focus composer
Composer

⤶ Enter


Tumblr
Open a post's blog (Use with <keybs>J</keybs> and <keybs>K</keybs> keys)
Navigation

⤶ Enter


Pocket (Web)
Open selected item
Viewing your list

⤶ Enter


Google+
Open full post view of the selected post
Action keys

⤶ Enter


Maple
Evaluate Expression
2D Math

⤶ Enter


NZBGet
Remove focus from search box
Search box (at the top of the page)

⤶ Enter


Basecamp
Insert line break
Editing

⤶ Enter


TinyMCE
Execute command
Accessibility

⤶ Enter


Minesweeper
Used as clicking squares
General (Vista and later)

⤶ Enter


WinNc
Opens a compressed file
General

⤶ Enter


NewsBin Pro
Same as a left mouse click on item with focus
Standard Windows keyboard navigation

⤶ Enter


REAPER
Browser: Browse selected folder, or insert selected media file
Section: Media Explorer

⤶ Enter


Apple Calendar
(while an event is open) Close the event editor
Event shortcuts

⤶ Enter


Greenshot
Finish editing
Other

⤶ Enter


Freemind
Add sibling node
New node commands

⤶ Enter


FastStone Image Viewer
Crop the image
General

⤶ Enter


iPad Smart Keyboard
Line break
Facebook Messenger

⤶ Enter


FileMaker
Save
Alert message

⤶ Enter


OneDrive
Open a selected file or folder
Give commands

⤶ Enter


The Bat!
Open message in new window
Working with Messages

⤶ Enter


WinMerge
Open selected file or folder
Comparing folders

⤶ Enter


WPS Office
Moves one cell down in a selected cell range
General

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Access 2016
In a Table of Contents in tree view, expand or collapse the selected item
Get help with Access

⤶ Enter


MediaMonkey
Play (selected tracks) now (can be changed by modifying 'Double-click action')
General

⤶ Enter


League of Legends
Create chat cursor
General

⤶ Enter


FileZilla
Transfer the currently selected item if it is a file or expands it if it is a directory
Advanced

⤶ Enter


Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2013
Collapse the group
Timeline view (Tasks): When a group is selected

⤶ Enter


IrfanView
Toggle fullscreen mode
Full screen mode

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Excel 2016
In a dialog box, it performs the action for the default command button in the dialog box (the button with the bold outline, often the OK button)
Other useful shortcut keys

⤶ Enter


NVDA Screen Reader
Activate button
Basics: Activate

⤶ Enter


Slack
Take action or "click" on links
Navigation

⤶ Enter


Kaspersky Internet Security
If a button is selected, press a button
Kaspersky password manager

⤶ Enter


Zimbra Web Client
Save changes
Dialog boxes

⤶ Enter


ACDSee
Closes View mode and returns to the previous mode
General

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Activate a selected link
Browsing

⤶ Enter


7-Zip
Open current item
File menu

⤶ Enter


Chrome DevTools
Execute
Console panel

⤶ Enter


Paint.NET
Deselect active selection
Edit menu

⤶ Enter


GOM Player
Full screen/restore
Window size

⤶ Enter


Everything
Open the selected items
Result list

⤶ Enter


PeaZip
(on the folder) Open directory
Navigation

⤶ Enter


KeePass
Edit / view entry
KeePass Interface

⤶ Enter


Notepad++
Next match (same as > button)
Incremental search widget

⤶ Enter


Windows 3.1
Open
Menu features

⤶ Enter


SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Display the grid on the design surface
Designer

⤶ Enter


Trillian
Send message
General

⤶ Enter


Opera
Open transferred file
Panel keys: Actions

⤶ Enter


iTunes 11 for Mac
Play the currently selected song from the beginning
Playback

⤶ Enter


AIMP
Play selected file
Working with Playlist

⤶ Enter


iTunes 11 for Windows
Click the currently selected control
With full keyboard navigation enabled

⤶ Enter


Mozilla Thunderbird
Open message (in new window or tab)
Message functions

⤶ Enter


Microsoft OneNote
While searching all notebooks, go to the selected result
Search notes

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Movies and TV
Select something that's in focus
General

⤶ Enter


Microsoft Photos App
Select an item while in Selection mode
General

⤶ Enter


Safari
Finish editing a bookmark name
Bookmarks sidebar and bookmarks view

⤶ Enter


SnagIt 13
Take a capture
Capture hotkeys

⤶ Enter


PhotoScape
Fullscreen or editor
Viewer

⤶ Enter


Narrator
If supported, perform secondary action on an item
Scan mode keyboard commands

⤶ Enter


Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)
Activate selected tool, item (such as a movie clip or bookmark), or command
General navigating

⤶ Enter


Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix)
Activate highlighted link
Help window

⤶ Enter


Diablo III
Send message to party
General

⤶ Enter


Audacity
Toggle Focused Track
Tracks menu

⤶ Enter


Duolingo
Submit your answer, continue onto next screen
General

⤶ Enter


Spotify
Play selected
General

⤶ Enter


Facebook (Chrome)
View selected news post
News feed

⤶ Enter


Celestia
Open the console
Keyboard navigation commands

⤶ Enter


YouTube
Execute selected player control button
General

⤶ Enter


Gmail
Open conversation
Navigation

⤶ Enter


Battlefield V
Default chat
Chat

⤶ Enter


DBeaver 6.0.3
Activate inline editor
Data editor

⤶ Enter


Figma
Edit shape or image
Transform

⤶ Enter


Pinnacle Studio 22
Stop motion: Capture frame (when capture frame is open)
Importer

⤶ Enter


Feedly
Open selected article
Selected article actions

⤶ Enter