Canva Keyboard Shortcuts – Quick Reference Guide
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Two Canva questions: 1. When editing a video, how can I quickly (with a shortcut) move from the middle or end of the video to the beginning without having to drag the playhead to the beginning? And 2. When in an App, how can I scroll quickly up to the Elements option, on the left panel, without having to use my mouse wheel or use the scroll-up (slow) to “finally” get there? Thank you in advance for your replies.
At the moment, Canva does not appear to have a dedicated “playhead to 0:00” keyboard shortcut.
So unfortunately Home isn’t an officially supported Canva equivalent of the Home key in Premiere/CapCut-style editors. There is, however, a (sort-of) workaround if your video consists of several pages/scenes:
On a Windows device: Ctrl + Alt + G → type 1 → Enter
That is Canva’s Go to page shortcut, so it gets you straight back to page/scene 1 without dragging all the way along the timeline.
For a single long video clip/page, though, dragging/clicking the timeline is currently still the Canva way. I’d definitely class “jump playhead to start/end” as a missing shortcut.
To get from an App quickly back to Elements I would use: Ctrl + E
That opens Canva’s Quick Actions command search. You can then type: Elements
and choose it, rather than scrolling all the way back up the left-hand toolbar. Canva officially supports Ctrl + E (or simply /) for Quick Actions.
So: Ctrl + E → Elements → Enter
There’s also a useful accessibility/navigation shortcut: Ctrl + F3 = move keyboard focus to the side panel
and Ctrl + F6 / Ctrl + Shift + F6 move between Canva interface areas. But for what you’re describing (if I’ve understood your question correctly), Ctrl + E is much faster.