Keyboard shortcuts for animation

The following keyboard shortcuts can help you be more productive when working with animations by providing access to many common functions. These shortcuts work with animation regardless of whether the Animation Timeline pane is open or not.

Keyboard shortcuts for animations

Keyboard shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Right arrow key	Move to the next keyframe .
Ctrl+Left arrow key	Move to the previous keyframe .
Spacebar	Play or pause the steps.
Ctrl+Insert	Append a new keyframe to the end of the animation after the last keyframe.
Shift+Insert	Update or set a keyframe. If a keyframe exists at the current time, it is updated. Otherwise, a new keyframe is inserted at the current time between two keyframes.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete	Delete the current keyframe.