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Markdown Shortcuts

Convert markdown to rich text formatting without leaving your keyboard
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Written by Benjamin Spry
Updated over a week ago

Reduce time wasted between your keyboard and mouse. Stay in the editor and format your tasks without leaving the keyboard with markdown shortcuts. 

Enable markdown shortcuts

In ClickUp, you may enable these shortcuts in your profile settings here: 

avatar settings menu

  1. Go to your account Profile

  2. Scroll down and enable/disable the Markdown toggle

option to enable markdown from my settings

Shortcuts

Here are the shortcuts to creating rich text that you can use in real-time 😀 

Bold 👁️‍🗨️

bold text example

Italic 💃🏻

italic text example

Strikethrough 🙅

strikethrough text example

Bullet ⚫

bullet point example

Numbered 🔢

numbered list example

Checkbox 🗹

checkbox example

Block Quote 💬

block quote example

With this option, type > followed by a space to start the quote. Pressing return  three times will exit you from the quote formatting.

Inline Code ↔️

inline code example

Code Block 🔲

code block example

With this option, type ``` followed by a space to start the code block. Pressing return three times will exit you from the code block.

Divider 🗂️

divider markdown example

Great minds think alike, and if you're here, shortcuts get you going too. We'd LOVE to hear what we're missing! Vote, comment, or add a new suggestion here!

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