Nowadays, in the Indian Market business sector Tally, has become a Household name. Every small business and the big corporation has somewhat agreed on the usage of Tally software products in their business. And it has also become a standard for recruiting Accountants for any business that they know Tally’s Accounting or not, just like the usage of MIS and MS Excel and other products.
So as Tally has become so necessary in our daily usage, it’s a requirement for you all people who are involved in this Indian business environment to know about it. And to help you all out, we have made one comprehensive list here of Tally Shortcut Keys to make your work on Tally easy, fast and efficient.
List of Tally Shortcut Keys in Tally Prime
| Shortcut Keys | Function |
| F1 | Selects a company. |
| F2 | Change the Date of selected menu or voucher. |
| F3 (Ctrl + F3) | Shuts down a company |
| F4 | Opens a Contra voucher |
| F5 | Opens the Payments voucher. |
| F6 | Opens the Receipt voucher. |
| F7 | Opens the Journal voucher. |
| F8 | Opens the Sales voucher. |
| F9 | Opens the Purchase voucher. |
| F10 | Opens the Memorandum/ Reversing Journal Voucher. |
| F11 | Opens the Features section on Tally. |
| F12 | Opens the Configuration Screen on Tally. |
| Ctrl + F8 | Opens the Credit Note Voucher. |
| Ctrl + F9 | Opens the Debit Note Voucher. |
| Ctrl + Up/Down | Moves the first or last menu in a section |
| Ctrl+ Left/Right | Moves to the left-most or right-most drop-down top menu |
| Ctrl + Alt + R | Rewrites the data |
| Ctrl + Alt +B | Views the build information |
| Ctrl + Alt + T | Views TDL/Add-on details |
| Ctrl + A | Accepts or saves a screen |
| Ctrl + End | Moves to the last field or last line |
| Ctrl + Home | Moves to the first field or first line |
| Ctrl + N | Opens or hide calculator panel |
| Ctrl + Q | Exits a screen or the application |
| Ctrl + R | Removes an entry from a report |
| Ctrl + U | Shows the last hidden line (When multiple lines are hidden, pressing this key repeatedly will restore the last hidden line first and follow the sequence) |
| Ctrl + Enter | Alters a master during voucher entry or from drill-down of a report |
| Ctrl + Spacebar | Selects or deselects all lines in a report |
| Ctrl + Shift + End | Selects or deselects lines till the end |
| Ctrl + Shift + Home | Selects or deselects lines till the top |
| Ctrl + Alt + I | Inverts selection of line items in a report |
| Ctrl + D | Removes item/ledger line in a voucher |
| Ctrl + Alt + C | Copies the Text for an input area. |
| Ctrl + Alt + V | Pastes the Input copied to assigned area. |
| Ctrl + F4 | Opens Payroll voucher |
| Ctrl + F5 | Opens Rejection Inventory IN voucher |
| Ctrl + F6 | Opens Rejection Inventory Out voucher |
| Ctrl + T | Marks a Voucher as Post-Dated |
| Alt + 2 | Duplicate a voucher from list of vouchers |
| Alt + D | Delete a voucher/master |
| Alt + C | Create a master from a voucher |
| Alt + I | Insert a voucher in between the vouchers |
| Alt + X | Cancel voucher in day book / list of vouchers |
| Alt + P | Print a report, voucher, etc |
| Alt + E | Export details in Excel, HTML or XML format |
| Alt + N | View the report in automatic columns |
| Alt + R | Remove / hide the line in a report |
| Alt + M | Send emails |
| Alt + G | Select the language configuration |
| Alt + K | Select the keyboard configuration |
| Alt + U | Retrieve the last line which was deleted using Alt+R |
| Alt + L | Login as remote tally.net user |
| Alt + H | Access context sensitive help |
| Alt + Z | Zoom in to the print preview to 100% screen |
| Alt + Enter | View the voucher display |
| Alt + F1 | Close a company, to view a report in detail |
| Alt + F2 | Change the report period |
| Alt + F3 | Go to company info |
| Al t+ F4 | Disconnects the company from Tally.Net server |
| Ctrl +Alt+ R | Rewrite data for a company |
| SHIFT + ENTER | Collapse next Level Details |
List of Keys for Menu Navigation
The type of keys used for the navigation in the Tally Menu and the Gateway page are known as Hot Keys. So, it is a plus point is that you don’t need to select a menu instead of just use hot keys. Further, you can easily navigate to the desired menu option. Without any difficulty, one can trace hot keys in Tally.
So, in the following picture the keys that are highlighted are the Hot Keys and you can use them to navigate in Tally.
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Way Forward
With the use of these Tally shortcut keys, you can make your work on Tally software easy. Further, with its help, you can work at a lesser time than you used to take earlier.
Also, Tally is helping you all mostly in your accounting works. But businesses have many more core activities to handle, and for this, you may use much different software. So, instead of using multiple software for your various needs. You can go to a software solution that solves all your problems. And is appropriate for your business nature to provide an integration feature. So, you can use Tally with it without any extra effort. So TranZact is one such software product.
TranZact is a zero-effort digital transformation tool and platform for SMEs to digitize business processes right, from customer inquiry to dispatch. Its tally integration will also help you to easily work on both platforms without duplication of your effort.
Further, the organizations must choose TranZact or any other software only when it meets all their requirements. They should check whether it is suitable for their business size and nature. And if the software satisfies all these conditions. Then only should implement it in their organization.