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Today, I wanted to share some useful hotkeys that you can use when building workflows in Alteryx Designer.
What is Alteryx Designer?
Alteryx Designer is a sofware that has has over 200+ tools which can be used for:
Data preparation
Geospacial mapping
Predictive analysis
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What are hotkeys?
Great examples of hotkeys you may have come across previously are Ctrl+C to Copy, Ctrl+V to Paste and Ctrl+S to Save - those all apply to Alteryx too! Here are some other useful hotkeys that might help:
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Action | Hot key |
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Run / stop running the workflow | Ctrl + R |
Create a new workflow | Ctrl + N |
Save workflow | Ctrl + S |
Save all open workflows | Ctrl + Shift + S |
Add a Browse Tool | Ctrl + Shift + B |
Select all tools | Ctrl + A |
Align tools horizontally | Ctrl + Shift + - |
Align tools vertically | Ctrl + Shift + + |
Undo | Ctrl + Z |
Redo | Ctrl + Y |
Copy | Ctrl + C |
Paste | Ctrl + V |
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You can find the full list of hotkeys on the Alteryx Help and Documentation site here.