Keyboard shortcuts in the tour editor - Help Center

The short answer

Ctrl+Z (⌘Z on a Mac) undoes and Ctrl+Shift+Z (⌘⇧Z) or Ctrl+Y redoes, on the Hotspots tab and on the Floor Plans tab. On the Hotspots tab, Tab to a hotspot on the panorama and press Enter to select it; the arrow keys then move it 1° a press, 10° with Shift. Escape closes a window or a menu and cancels a placing or a move. The tables below list every key, tab by tab.

The keys work in the Basic and the Advanced view; a few belong to parts that only Advanced shows. They do nothing while the focus is in a text box, where Ctrl+Z undoes your typing, or while a window is open over the tab.

Everywhere in the editor

Keys	What they do
Tab, Shift+Tab	Move to the next or the previous button, field or hotspot. The one that has the focus is outlined
Enter or Space	Press the button that has the focus
Escape	Close the window that is open and go back to the button that opened it. Escape also closes Replace Original File while it makes a photo: the photo carries on
Escape	Close an open menu, such as your account menu or the three-dot menu of a tour in My Tours, and go back to its button
Up and Down arrows	Move through the items of an open three-dot menu
Left and Right arrows (or Up and Down), Home, End	Move between the tabs of a Design panel, the choices of a row of buttons, and the eight places of a position picker
Up and Down arrows, Home, End, Enter, Escape	In a list box of the Design tab: open it, move through it, choose, and close it. Tab closes it too

Hotspots tab

Keys	What they do
Ctrl+Z (⌘Z)	Undo. The button at the top left of the picture does the same
Ctrl+Shift+Z (⌘⇧Z) or Ctrl+Y	Redo
Tab to a hotspot on the panorama	Each hotspot has a focus target named `Edit hotspot:` and its title
Enter or Space on a hotspot	Select it, as a click does
Arrow keys on the selected hotspot	Move it 1° left, right, up or down. Shift: 10°. Its new place is read out, and a run of presses is one undo step
Move hotspot, then Enter	The button in the hotspot's header (its tooltip is `Move: click the panorama where it goes`) waits for a place: click the panorama where the hotspot goes, or press Enter to put it in the middle of the view. A small cross marks the middle
Add Infotation, Add Link Hotspot or Add Surface Media, then Enter	Put the new hotspot in the middle of the view instead of clicking the panorama
Escape	Cancel a placing or a move that waits

With no hotspot selected, the side panel lists Hotspots on this panorama as buttons: pressing one selects that hotspot and puts the focus in its header. Everything on this tab saves by itself: see Edit hotspots with someone else at the same time.

Surface corners

A surface media hotspot (Surface media, in the Advanced view) has four corner buttons while Edit Corners is on: Top-left corner, Top-right corner, Bottom-right corner and Bottom-left corner.

Keys	What they do
Arrow keys on a corner button	Move that corner 1°, 10° with Shift. Its handle on the panorama is drawn bigger while the button has the focus
Enter on a corner button, then Enter again	Put that corner in the middle of the view. A click on the panorama after the first Enter puts it there instead
Escape	Cancel placing a corner

Floor Plans tab

Keys	What they do
Add pin	Put a pin in the middle of the plan, selected, with the focus on it
Tab to a pin	Each pin is named after its panorama, such as `Pin 3: Kitchen`
Enter or Space on a pin	Select it
Arrow keys on a pin	Move it 1% of the plan, 10% with Shift. A run of presses is one undo step
Delete or Backspace on a pin	Remove it. The focus moves to the pin that takes its place in the list, or to Add pin when none is left
Move, then a click on the plan	Put the selected pin there. Escape, or Move again, cancels
Ctrl+Z (⌘Z), Ctrl+Shift+Z (⌘⇧Z) or Ctrl+Y	Undo and redo the changes to the pins of the plan on screen

In the Calibrate Radar Offset window, Tab to the cone: the arrow keys turn it 1° (10° with Shift), Page Up and Page Down turn it 10°, and Home points it straight up the plan. See Add floor plans and minimaps to your tour.

Putting a list in order

The lists you can drag into order also have buttons beside each row, for a keyboard or a finger. They are named after the row (Move Kitchen up, Move Kitchen down), and the focus stays on the button after the move, so pressing Enter again moves the row on. They are on:

the scenes table of the Tour tab;
the panorama list of the Panoramas tab, while the list is not narrowed by the search or a group and Select several is off;
the icon lists of the bar panels on the Design tab;
the Menu builder of the Top nav bar – multi menu, where each row also has buttons to move it out of its submenu or into the item above, and to remove it (Build a Top Nav Bar - Multi Menu).

In the list of photos you are adding, a row with a grip moves up and down with the Up and Down arrow keys while its grip has the focus.

Names and boxes

Where	Keys
A photo's name in the list of photos you are adding	Enter or F2 opens the name box. Enter saves the name, Tab saves it and goes to the next photo's name (Shift+Tab: the one before), Escape leaves the name as it was
Renaming a file or a folder on the Assets tab	Enter saves, Escape cancels
The name of a floor plan	Enter saves
A one-line box on the Hotspots tab (a title, an address)	Enter hands the text over to be saved
Blur faces or plates window	Escape cancels the area you are drawing. Delete or Backspace takes the chosen area (the last one drawn, or the one you clicked in the list) off the list
The place search on the Google Street View pane of the Publish tab	Up and Down arrows move through the places found, Enter takes the one marked (or searches), Escape closes the list

In the tour

Visitors of a published tour, and you on the Preview tab, have the player's own keys: Tab to the picture and to each hotspot, Enter to open one, the arrow keys to turn the view, plus and minus to zoom. Accessibility in a tour lists them.

Troubleshooting

Ctrl+Z undoes my typing, not the hotspot. The focus is in a text box. Click the panorama or press Tab until the focus leaves the box, then press Ctrl+Z.

The arrow keys do not move the hotspot. Select it first: Tab to it and press Enter, or click it. Only the selected hotspot moves, and only while it has the focus.

Enter does not place the hotspot. Nothing is waiting to be placed: press Move hotspot or one of the add buttons first. The small cross in the middle of the view shows that something waits.

Undo left a hotspot as it was. Someone else changed that hotspot after your step, and undo never takes back their work. See Edit hotspots with someone else at the same time.

The move buttons are missing from the panorama list. Clear the search box and the group filter, and close Select several.