Everything Search Keyboard Shortcuts

Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows.

How is Everything different from other search engines voidtools

• Small installation file.
• Clean and simple user interface.
• Quick file indexing.
• Quick searching.
• Quick startup.
• Minimal resource usage.
• Small database on disk.
• Real-time updating.
   

Shortcut key	Action
Ctrl + A	Select all text.
Ctrl + Backspace	Delete previous word.
Ctrl + Space	Complete search. Requires search history.
Enter	Focus result list and select the item with the highest run count.
Up Down	Focus result list.
Alt + Up Alt + Down	Show search history.
Double Click	Select word
Triple Click	Select all

Result list shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts that can be used when the result list has focus.

Shortcut key	Action
F2	Rename the focused item.
Delete	Move selected items to the recycle bin.
Left	Scroll left.
Right	Scroll right.
Ctrl + Left	Scroll left one page.
Ctrl + Right	Scroll right one page.
Shift + Delete	Permanently delete selected items.
Enter	Open the selected items.
Ctrl + Enter	Open the path of the selected item.
Alt + Enter	Display properties of the selected items.
Ctrl + +	Maximize column widths.
Up Down Page Up Page Down Home End	Navigate item focus and selection.
Shift + Up Shift + Down Shift + Page Up Shift + Page Down Shift + Home Shift + End	Extend item selection.
Ctrl + Up Ctrl + Down Ctrl + Page Up Ctrl + Page Down Ctrl + Home Ctrl + End	Navigate item focus.
Ctrl + Shift + Up Ctrl + Shift + Down Ctrl + Shift + Page Up Ctrl + Shift + Page Down Ctrl + Shift + Home Ctrl + Shift + End	Extend item selection, keeping the current selection.
Ctrl + Space	Toggle item selection.
Escape	Cancel any current actions.
Ctrl + A	Selected all items.
Ctrl + C Ctrl + Insert	Copy selected items.
Ctrl + E	Read the file size, date and attributes of the current selection. May be useful before exporting all sizes, dates and attributes.
Ctrl + V Shift + Insert	Paste items from the clipboard into the selected folder.
Ctrl + X	Cut selected items.
Ctrl + Shift + C	Copy the full path and name of the current selection to the clipboard.
Shift + F10	Display item context menu for the current selection. Displays the result list context menu if no selection.
Any character	Adds a character to the jump to text.
Backspace	Remove the last character in the jump to text.

Global keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts that can be used when an Everything search window has focus.

Shortcut key	Action
Escape Ctrl + W	Close the Everything window.
F1	Show the Everything help.
F3 Ctrl + F	Focus and highlight the search edit.
F5	Reload icons, file sizes, dates and attributes.
F11	Toggle fullscreen.
Ctrl + Tab Ctrl + Shift + Tab	Cycle between open windows.
Tab Shift + Tab	Cycle between search edit and results view.
Escape	Close the current window.
Alt + 1	Resize the window to 512 x 398.
Alt + 2	Resize the window to 640 x 497.
Alt + 3	Resize the window to 768 x 597.
Alt + 4	Auto size the window.
Ctrl + ~	Toggle debug console.
Ctrl + F1	Show About Everything.
Ctrl + 1	Sort by name.
Ctrl + 2	Sort by path.
Ctrl + 3	Sort by size.
Ctrl + 4	Sort by extension.
Ctrl + 5	Sort by type.
Ctrl + 6	Sort by date modified.
Ctrl + 7	Sort by date created.
Ctrl + 8	Sort by attributes.
Ctrl + 9	Sort by date recently changed.
Ctrl + Shift + 2	Toggle path column.
Ctrl + Shift + 3	Toggle size column.
Ctrl + Shift + 4	Toggle extension column.
Ctrl + Shift + 5	Toggle type column.
Ctrl + Shift + 6	Toggle date modified column.
Ctrl + Shift + 7	Toggle date created column.
Ctrl + Shift + 8	Toggle attributes column.
Ctrl + Shift + 9	Toggle date recently changed column.
Ctrl + B	Toggle match whole word.
Ctrl + D	Bookmark the current search.
Ctrl + I	Toggle match case.
Ctrl + M	Toggle match diacritics.
Ctrl + N	Open a new search window.
Ctrl + O	Open an Everything file list.
Ctrl + P	Show the Options window.
Ctrl + Q	Exit Everything.
Ctrl + R	Toggle Regex.
Ctrl + S	Export the current results to an Everything file list, csv or txt file.
Ctrl + T	Toggle always on top.
Ctrl + U	Toggle match path.
Ctrl + +	Increase text size.
Ctrl + -	Decrease text size.
Ctrl + 0	Reset text size to Normal.
Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Up Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Down	Increase/Decrease text size.
Alt + Home	Go to the home search.
Alt + Left Back	Go back to the previous search.
Alt + Right Forward	Go forward to the next search.
Ctrl + Shift + F	Organize filters.
Ctrl + Shift + B	Organize bookmarks.

Hotkeys

The Everything search window can be shown by pressing a hotkey.
Hotkeys can be used anywhere in Windows.

There are three different methods for opening the Everything window with a hotkey:

Method	Description
New window	Always show a new Everything search window.
Show window	Show the Everything search window if one exists, otherwise create a new Everything search window.
Toggle window	Hide the Everything search window if it is currently in the foreground, otherwise show the Everything search window if one exists, otherwise create a new Everything search window.

To define a Hotkey to open Everything:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Keyboard tab.
• Choose a hotkey method.
• Press a new key combination.
• Click OK.

Note: Everything must be running in the background for hotkeys to work.

Note: You can not override any existing hotkey.

Customizing

To customize keyboard shortcuts:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Keyboard tab.
• Use Show commands containing: to search for a command
• Click Add... to add a new keyboard shortcut or click Edit... to edit an existing one.
• Select a location to use the shortcut in:

Location	Description
Global	The shortcut will work anywhere in the Everything search window.
Search Edit	The shortcut will only work when pressed in the search edit.
Result List	The shortcut will only work when pressed in the result list.

• Press a new keyboard shortcut for shortcut key.
• Check shortcut key currently used by, this existing shortcut (if any) will be removed if you click OK.
• Click OK.
• Click OK.