Chat & AI
Keyboard shortcuts in chat
Every key that does something in the composer, while editing, in search and in the pickers.
Step 1
Sending
Enter sends. Shift+Enter adds a new line. The hint under the composer always shows the keys that apply right now.
Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter for new line
Step 2
While a reply is being written
Enter queues your message instead of sending it, and Cmd or Ctrl+Enter stops the reply and sends straight away. The hint changes to say so.
Press Enter to queue, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to send now
Step 3
Editing text in the box
Ctrl+Backspace or Alt+Backspace deletes the previous word. Shift+Backspace deletes back to the start of the line.
Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter for new line
Step 4
Editing a sent message
When you edit one of your messages in place, Enter saves and sends it again, Shift+Enter adds a line, and Escape cancels.
Step 5
Renaming a chat
Renaming a chat in the list works the same way: Enter saves, Escape cancels.
Chats
Onboarding checklist
Step 6
Search in conversation
Enter goes to the next match, Shift+Enter to the previous one, and Escape closes the search.
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Escape closes things
Escape closes most windows: the Effort popover, the persona picker, the file picker, folder pickers, Manage Access, the Share and Export windows, forms such as New hub, Create Persona and Create Group, the Session files panel, image viewers and the fullscreen thread panel. A window that is busy saving or running a reply ignores Escape until it finishes. In the Effort popover the arrow keys, Home and End move the slider.
Deeper reasoning for complex work and extracting everything from long files
Step 8
Undo in the image editor
In the Edit area editor for a generated image, Cmd or Ctrl+Z undoes the last brush stroke, and Enter in the prompt box applies the edit.
Edit area · Secretary bird illustration
Paint over what should change. Everything else stays exactly as it is.
What should change in the painted area?
Try it in Secretary, or create an account to get started.
Related guides
Starting a new chat
The start screen, starter prompts, temporary chats, and what New chat does once you are already in a conversation.
Attaching files to a chat message
Add a file from your computer so the AI can read it: press the paperclip, drag it in, or paste it.
Scoping a chat to specific documents or folders
Point the AI at exactly the files in your library it should answer from, and choose how deeply it reads them.