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Defaults are listed below. Most shortcuts are rebindable in Settings > Keyboard; see Customizing shortcuts. The same key can do different things depending on focus: Cmd+[ indents in the editor and pages back in the data grid.

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Essential

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SQL Editor

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Query Execution

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File Operations

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Text Editing and Find

Every row except Find Next and Find Previous is built into the editor and cannot be rebound. Standard macOS text navigation and clipboard keys also apply.

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Data Grid

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Editing

Truncate table opens a dialog with Cascade and Ignore foreign key checks, then marks the tables as a pending truncate that Cmd+S runs.
Cmd+Delete and Option+Delete step aside while the SQL editor or a text field has focus. There they keep their standard macOS meaning: delete to the start of the line, and delete the previous word. The grid commands come back as soon as you click into the grid, and Delete on its own still deletes the selected rows.

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Clipboard

With a drag-selected cell range, Cmd+C copies the range as TSV. With a single focused cell it copies that value. Otherwise it copies the selected rows as TSV.

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Pagination

Cmd+[ and Cmd+] page the data grid. In the SQL editor the same keys indent and outdent. Focus decides which fires.

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Filtering

See Filtering for the filter panel itself.

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Import and Export

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Tabs and Windows

Cmd+W closes whatever is in front. In a connection window it closes the current editor tab, and the File menu names it Close Tab. In Settings, Integrations, a JSON or PHP viewer, or the welcome window there are no tabs, so it closes the window and the menu reads Close Window. While the connections strip has keyboard focus it closes the highlighted connection, and the menu names that connection.

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Connections

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Result Tabs

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Query History Drawer

With the drawer open (Cmd+Y) and its entry list focused: Return loads the selected entry in the editor, Delete removes it, Cmd+C copies its query. Cmd+Y again hides the drawer. Return anywhere else in the window belongs to whatever you are typing in.

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Welcome Window

Ctrl+J/Ctrl+N and Ctrl+K/Ctrl+P also move the selection in Open Quickly, where Cmd+Return and Option+Return open the selected item in a new tab.

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CSV Inspector

See CSV Inspector.

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Vim Mode

Turn on Vim mode in Settings > Editor. Vim keys apply only in the SQL editor; the data grid keeps its shortcuts, and Cmd+Enter runs the query in any mode. See Vim Mode for the key reference.

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Customizing Shortcuts

Open Settings > Keyboard (Cmd+,). Each action has a recorder field: click it and press the new combination. The menu bar updates immediately. Use the search field to filter actions, press Delete in a recorder field to clear a binding, click the curved-arrow button next to a changed shortcut to restore that one action, or Reset to Defaults to restore all. See Settings for the other tabs.
Keyboard settings

Keyboard shortcut customization

If a combination is already used by another action in the same context, TablePro shows a dialog naming that action: Cancel keeps the existing assignment, Reassign moves the shortcut and clears it from the other action. Editor and data grid shortcuts can share a key without conflict because focus decides which fires. Menu actions need a modifier (Cmd, Option, Ctrl, or Shift); function keys F1 through F12 work bare, as do grid actions that read the key directly, like Preview FK Reference (Space).
Some shortcuts cannot be reassigned: editor built-ins (like Cmd+/), tab selection (Cmd+1 through Cmd+9), text size (Cmd+=, Cmd+-), Find (Cmd+F), and macOS system shortcuts, which TablePro reads live from System Settings. The recorder warns if you try.

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Outside the App

TablePro can be driven without app shortcuts at all: the Raycast extension, the tablepro:// URL scheme, and MCP clients are covered in the External API section.