Jupyter Notebook Keyboard Shortcuts for Beginners
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Magdalena Konkiewicz
Originally published on Towards AI.
Learn the most important shortcuts to improve your productivity while working with Jupyter notebook editor.

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When you start with Jupyter notebook most of the people use the menu bar above the cells to do basic operations. This is not the most time-efficient way to do them, therefore, I want to show the most basic keyboard shortcuts of Jupyter notebook that you will use every time you open the editor.
This article is not a complete list of all possible shortcuts in the notebook but focuses on the ones that you will be using most frequently and therefore learning them at the beginning of your Jupyter notebook journey is essential.
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