Web applications often don’t have the keyboard shortcuts you’d expect from a desktop application, and so far Google Drive has just added support for regular desktop shortcuts.
Google announced in a blog post that several new keyboard shortcuts are available for manipulating files in Google Drive. Starting with the basics, you can now Ctrl + C to copy, Ctrl + X to cut, and Ctrl + V to paste. If you copy a file, you can also press Ctrl + Shift + V to create a shortcut instead of creating a copy. Finally, selecting a file and clicking Ctrl + Enter will open the file in a new browser tab. If you’re on a Mac, use the ⌘ key instead of Ctrl.
Shortcuts let you move and copy files without diving into Drive menus or right-clicking, which can greatly speed up file management. Google also says that copying a file will save its link to the clipboard on your computer, so if you paste the file into an email or other area of text (instead of Drive), you’ll get a link to the file.
Google has made other improvements to the Drive and Docs web applications over the past few weeks. Selection of several blocks of text at once began to unfold earlier this week, drop-down tabs and table templates arrived in May, and improved support for the Markdown format appeared in March.
New keyboard shortcuts are being implemented faster than most other new Docs and Drive features, and should be available to everyone in 2 to 3 days. However, they are only offered in Drive web applications; it would be useful to have shortcuts on iPads and Android tablets when a keyboard is connected. Google says Chrome is the only supported web browser, but other Chromium-based browsers may work.
Source: Google Workspace Blog