Keyboard shortcuts & hotkeys — the complete reference

If you share your screen regularly, speed matters. BlurGuard provides keyboard shortcuts for every major action — no reaching for the mouse, no clicking toolbar buttons. Here's the complete reference.

Global shortcuts (work anywhere)

These four shortcuts are registered in the browser and work on any page where BlurGuard is active:

Alt+Shift+B — Toggle blur picker

Activates or deactivates the element/area picker. When active, your cursor becomes a targeting tool — hover over elements to highlight them, click to blur. Press the shortcut again to exit picker mode.

Alt+Shift+R — Remove all blurs

Instantly removes every blur on the current page. All elements, areas, text blurs, and color overrides are stripped in one action. This is the "emergency clear" shortcut — useful when you're done presenting and want your screen back to normal.

Alt+Shift+A — Toggle auto-detect

Turns PII auto-detection on or off. When you enable it, BlurGuard immediately scans the page and blurs matching data. When you disable it, all auto-detected blurs are removed. Manual blurs are not affected.

Alt+Shift+T — Toggle toolbar

Shows or hides the floating toolbar. If you prefer keyboard-only workflow, you can hide the toolbar entirely and use only shortcuts.

Picker shortcuts (active during blur mode)

When the blur picker is active (via Alt+Shift+B), these additional keys become available:

Esc — Deactivate picker

Exits picker mode and returns to normal browsing. Also dismisses focus mode and closes any open modal or dropdown.

M — Toggle element/area mode

Switches between Element blur (click to blur individual elements) and Area blur (click-drag to create a rectangular overlay). A quick way to change targeting without touching the toolbar.

Enter — Blur selected text

If you've selected text on the page, pressing Enter applies a text blur to the selection. This is the keyboard equivalent of the Text mode.

Modal and dialog shortcuts

Enter — Confirm

In the replacement text modal (redact mode) and the image swap modal, Enter confirms your input and applies the change.

Shift+Enter — Newline (redact modal)

In the replacement text modal, Shift+Enter inserts a line break — useful for multi-line redaction text.

Esc — Cancel

Closes any open modal (replacement text, image swap, color palette) without applying changes.

Right-click context menu

BlurGuard also adds items to the browser's right-click context menu. Right-click any element to see options like:

• Blur element
• Blur area
• Remove all blurs

These context menu items trigger the same actions as the toolbar buttons, but from the right-click menu — handy when you want to blur something quickly without activating the picker.

Workflow example

Here's a typical screen-share workflow using only keyboard shortcuts:

1. Open the page you need to share
2. Press Alt+Shift+A to enable auto-detect — all emails, phones, and cards are blurred
3. Press Alt+Shift+B to enter picker mode
4. Click any additional elements you want to blur (salary figures, internal notes)
5. Press Esc to exit picker mode
6. Start your screen share — everything sensitive is hidden
7. When done, press Alt+Shift+R to clear all blurs