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title: "Executing commands using the command palette"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Streamline your development process with Cloud IDE's command palette. Access all features, keyboard shortcuts, and available commands quickly and easily, enhancing your coding efficiency and productivity."
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Cloud IDE provides many commands to help you develop and manage your code—so many that it can be difficult to keep track of them all. To ensure you have a place to find and run the commands you require, Cloud IDE provides a _command palette_ for your use. The command palette enables access to all features by listing all available commands, and includes their keyboard shortcuts.

Opening the command palette
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To display the command palette, use the following keyboard shortcut, based on your installed operating system:

*   _macOS_: Command+Shift+P
    
*   _Windows_: Ctrl+Shift+P
    
*   _Linux_: Ctrl+Shift+P
    

The command palette will list available commands in alphabetical order (when applicable), grouped by topic, and will also include keyboard shortcuts.

![Example of the command pallette](https://acquia.widen.net/content/glklkafyse/png/ide_opening-the-command-pallette.png?crop=false&position=w&color=ffffffff&u=0b06mk&w=548&h=443)

Displaying available commands
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To display a list of all available commands you can perform from the current [view](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/ide/ui/views), [open the command palette](#ide-palette-open), and then enter a question mark ( `?` ) into the command palette.

![Available commands are displayed](https://acquia.widen.net/content/raptsit3pk/png/ide_displaying-available-commands.png?crop=false&position=c&color=ffffffff&u=0b06mk&w=604&h=149)