Important: In Excel for Microsoft 365 and Excel 2021, Power View is removed on October 12, 2021. As an alternative, you can use the interactive visual experience provided by Power BI Desktop, which you can download for free. You can also easily Import Excel workbooks into Power BI Desktop. 

This article spells out keyboard shortcuts and other accessibility features of Power View in SharePoint Server, a feature of the SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP 1) Reporting Services add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013.

There are two versions of Power View: Power View in Excel 2013 and Power View in SharePoint 2013. The shortcuts in this topic apply to Power View in SharePoint 2013. 

Notes: Power View supports:

  • Most third-party screen readers.

  • High contrast.

In this article

Overall navigation

This section details the keys for moving from the browser to Power View in SharePoint, moving around the different parts of Power View, and moving among the objects in the view. In general adding the Shift key reverses the progression through a series.

Action

Keyboard operation

Move the focus from the browser to Power View.

Tab (Shift + Tab)

Within Power View, move the focus to the next Power View shell component (e.g., from the ribbon to the field list to the view or vice versa).

Ctrl + F6 (Shift + Ctrl + F6)

In the view, move the focus to the next (or previous) report item.

Tab (Shift + Tab)

Tabbing among items in the view also moves the focus from the outside of a report item, into the parts of the item (for example, the cells in a table, series in a chart, or one small multiple), then to the sort options, then to the popout button on report items that support it.

Tab until the part that you want has focus, then press Enter or Spacebar.

Navigation within the ribbon

Ribbon tabs

The currently active ribbon tab gets the focus by default whenever the ribbon gets the focus.

Action

Keyboard operation

Move focus to the next tab on the ribbon (e.g., from the Home tab to the Page Layout tab).

Right arrow

Move focus to the previous tab on the ribbon (e.g., from the Home tab to the File tab).

Left arrow

Ribbon tab contents

Action

Keyboard operation

Move focus to the first control on the current ribbon tab.

Down arrow or Tab

Move focus from the controls on the ribbon tab to the tab itself.

Up arrow

Ribbon controls

Action

Keyboard operation

Move focus to the next control on the current ribbon tab.

Right arrow or Tab

Move focus to the previous control on the current ribbon tab.

Left arrow or Shift + Tab

Ribbon groups

Action

Keyboard operation

Move focus to next (or previous) group of controls on the current ribbon tab.

Ctrl + right arrow (Ctrl + left arrow)

Note: Navigating to a group of controls sets the focus on the first control of the group.

Ribbon key tips

The Ctrl + F8 key combination shows ribbon key tips, regardless of what component or control currently has the focus. Additionally, ribbon key tips are displayed automatically whenever the ribbon gets keyboard focus.

Action

Keyboard operation

Toggle ribbon key tips on and off.

Ctrl + F8

Other ribbon navigation keys

Action

Keyboard operation

Perform the default action for the control group regardless of which control has focus.

Enter

Perform the action of the control that has focus.

Spacebar

Navigation for views

Action

Keyboard operation

Move focus to previous view

Up arrow or Page Up

Move focus to next view

Down arrow or Page Down

Move focus to first view

Home

Move focus to last view

End

New view

Ctrl+M

Delete view (with focus in view panel)

Del

Create duplicate view

Ctrl+Shift+M

Reorder views: Move selected view up/down

Ctrl+up/down arrow

Navigate/select view (with focus in view panel)

Up/down arrows

Field list navigation

Action

Keyboard operation

General

Navigate in/out of field list

Ctrl+F6, Shift+Ctrl+F6

Navigate between field list and field areas

Tab, Shift+Tab

Fields section of Field List

Move to previous/next table or field

Up, down arrow

Move to first/last table or field

Home, End

Expand/collapse a table

Left, right arrow

Select/Clear a field selection

Spacebar

Add all/remove all default fields of a table

Spacebar

Show dropdown menu

Shift+Enter

Layout section of Field List

Move to previous/next field within field area

Up, down arrows

Move selected field to previous/next position within layout section

Ctrl+up arrow, Ctrl+down arrow

Remove field

Shift+Enter

Table and matrix navigation

Action

Keyboard operation

Enter table or matrix

Tab, then Enter

Resize a table or matrix

Shift + Ctrl + arrow keys

Move focus up/down one cell (across all cells in all areas)

Up/down arrow

Move focus left/right one cell (across all cells in all areas)

Left/right arrow

Move focus and view to first cell in the current row (for each area of the matrix)

Home

Moves focus and view to last cell in the current row (for each area of the matrix)

End

Chart navigation

Action

Keyboard operation

Select a chart in the view and cycle through the parts of the chart in this order:

  1. Chart plot

  2. Legend

  3. Sort by field

  4. Sort in ascending or descending order

  5. Filter

  6. Pop out

Tab

When the chart plot part of the chart has focus, cycle through the data in the chart in this order:

  1. Chart plot

  2. One entire series of data points (data blocks for column or bar charts)

  3. Each data point in that series

  4. Another entire series of data points

  5. Each data point in that series

Right/left arrow

When the chart plot part of the chart has focus, cycle through data in the chart in this order:

  1. Chart plot

  2. One entire series of data points at a time

Up/down arrow

Resize a chart

Shift + Ctrl + arrow keys

Select or deselect a data point (single click)

Spacebar or Enter

Scroll up to the next set of data points

Page Up

Scroll down to the next set of data points

Page Down

Scroll left to the next set of data points

Ctrl + Page Up

Scroll right to the next set of data points

Ctrl + Page Down

Move focus to first set of data points (vertical)

Home

Moves focus to last set of data points (vertical)

End

Moves focus to 1st set of data points (horizontal)

Ctrl + Home

Moves focus to last set of data points (horizontal)

Ctrl + End

Axis zoom-in* (25% at a time, center-aligned)

Ctrl + up arrow or Ctrl + right arrow

Axis zoom-out

Ctrl + down arrow or Ctrl + left arrow

* Axis zooming is for a continuous axis (for example, year or date). You can change an axis to continuous in the ribbon. On the Chart Tools contextual tab, on the Layout tab, click Type, and then click Continuous.

More information

Power View: Explore, visualize, and present your data

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