If you appreciate efficiency, you'll love our quick menu. You can add and edit content, collaborate with others, and search and manage your workspace by using powerful keyboard shortcuts and commands.
You can read the instructions on this page or watch the short video below to learn how to access the quick menu and how to use it to edit slides and manage collaboration.
🎓 This video is part of our introduction series. Watch all videos on the Pitch Academy channel on YouTube.
Access the quick menu
Simply type Command + K
(or Control + K
on Windows), click the magnifying glass in the top right of your workspace, or click the lightning bolt in the top right of the editor toolbar while editing a presentation.
What is the quick menu?
You might be familiar with command palettes or command centers from tools like Superhuman, Slack, and Linear. Keyboard-first interactions are also popular in the gaming industry, but while the quick menu in Pitch does contain keyboard shortcuts, it also helps you find other actions faster, like changing the status of a slide or inserting a text block.
You’ll find several single-letter shortcuts and submenus in our quick menu. Single-letter shortcuts allow you to leave your other hand on the mouse, and are faster to use than a combination of two or more keys. Submenus offer filtered lists to give you the most relevant options for an action. For example, when you press S
, you will see a submenu with all available shapes you can add.
Now, here’s a selection of what you can do from the quick menu.
From the workspace dashboard:
New presentation:
N
Import presentation
Go to workspace:
G
Open folder
Open presentation:
O
Create template:
T
Create folder:
F
Create private folder
Account settings
Workspace settings (workspace owner only) or Workspace members
Invite users
Download desktop app
From a workspace folder:
New presentation:
Cmd + K
and select Create blank presentationOpen a new presentation:
Shift + N
While editing a presentation:
Add new slides and blocks to your presentation
When you’re working in the editor, you’ll most likely want to add some content. Try out these options first:
New Slide:
N
Headline:
H
Normal text:
T
Small text
Image:
I
Shape:
S
List:
L
Title
Subheadline
Area chart
Bar chart
Horizontal bar chart
Line chart
Pie chart
Stacked area chart
Stacked bar chart
Stacked horizontal bar chart
Table
Position your images
If you open the quick menu while an image is selected, you'll be able position your image using these options:
Use as background
Position it to half of the slide (left half, right half, top half, bottom half, center)
Position it to one third of the slide (left third, right third, top third, bottom third, center third vertical, middle third horizontal)
Replace image
Reorder blocks (bring to front, send to back)
Use submenus to add shapes and lists
Some content types — like shapes and lists — have their own submenu that you can bring up through a single-key shortcut. For instance, if you're working on a slide and would like to insert a bullet list, press L
to bring up the list submenu, and then B
to add the right list type (in this case, a bulleted list).
Rectangle:
S
thenR
Circle:
S
thenC
Line:
S
thenL
Arrow:
S
thenA
Diamond:
S
thenD
Star:
S
thenS
Triangle:
S
thenT
Bullet List:
L
thenB
Numbered List:
L
thenN
Check list:
L
thenC
Navigate and collaborate faster
In addition to adding content, you can navigate your account, open other presentations, and use collaboration features using the quick menu:
Go to dashboard
Go to workspace:
G
Open folder
Open presentation:
O
Enter the player
⌘ + Shift + F
Add comment:
⌘ + Shift + M
Set slide status:
!
To do:
T
In progress:
I
Done:
D
Assign to:
A
Apply style:
Alt + T
Jump to slide:
J
Export to PDF
Hide live cursors
💡 Searching for a specific presentation? The fastest way is to type the title into the quick menu, either from the dashboard or the editor, to find and open it in a new tab.
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