What Are the Flash Shortcut Keys?

The following is a complete list of keyboard shortcuts for Flash. Note that standard keyboard shortcuts, such as Command/Control C to copy and Command/Control V to paste, are omitted.

Note: Flash 5 and above supports customizable keyboard shortcuts. Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to open the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.

Tools

A - Arrow/Cursor

T - Text Tool

P - Pencil

I - Ink Bottle

B - Paint Brush

U - Paint Bucket

E - Eraser

D - Dropper

M - Magnifier

L - Lasso

Frames

F5 - Add frame

Shift F5 - Delete Frame

F6 - Add Key Frame

F7 - Add Blank Key Frame

F8 - Make Symbol

Time line

Enter - Play Command/Control 0 (zero) - Rewind

< - Previous Frame

> - Next Frame

Home - Go to First Scene

End - Go to Last Scene

Page Up - Go to Previous Scene

Page Down - Go to Next Scene

File
Command/Control R - Import Image/Sound/etc...

Command/Control Shift R - Export to .swf/.spl/.gif/etc...

Command/Control Shift O - Open as Library

View
Command/Control 1 - View movie at 100% size

Command/Control 2 - Show Frame

Command/Control 3 - Show All

Windows
Command/Control L - Show/Hide Library

Command/Control M - Modify Movie Properties

Command/Control E - Toggle between Edit Movie& Edit Symbol Mode

Command/Control Shift L - Show/Hide Time line

Command/Control Shift W - Show/Hide Work Area

Modifying and editing
Command/Control G - Group

Command/Control U - Ungroup

Command/Control B - Break Apart

Command/Control Shift V - Paste in Place

Command/Control D - Duplicate

Command/Control A - Select All

Command/Control Shift A - Deselect All

Command/Control Shift O - Optimize Curves

Command/Control K - Align Window

Command/Control Shift S - Scale and Rotate

Command/Control Shift Z - Remove Transform

Command/Control Up Arrow - Move Ahead

Command/Control Down Arrow - Move Behind

Command/Control Shift Up Arrow - Bring to Front

Command/Control Shift Down Arrow - Send to Back

Command/Control T - Modify Font

Command/Control Shift T - Modify Paragraph

Command/Control left Arrow - Narrower Letter Spacing (kerning)

Command/Control right Arrow - wider Letter Spacing (kerning)

Other tricks
With the arrow cursor:
Control + Click and Drag - Duplicates a shape

By hitting the control key first (Macintosh & Windows) and THEN clicking and dragging on a selected shape or group of shapes, you will create a duplicate of those shapes at the spot where you release the mouse button.
Command/Control Clicking a keyframe to move frame Command/Control clicking a frame in the timeline switches the cursor to a slider, and allows you to click and drag that frame to a new place in the timeline within that same layer. This is a very useful function for editing the positioning of tweens, etc. in the time line.

With the magnifier tool:
Control + Click - Toggles to the opposite magnifier. If the + magnifier (zoom in) is active, and you hit Control while clicking, you will switch to the - magnifier and actually zoom OUT.

With the dropper tool:
Shift + Click - Select a color for both fill and outline tools Clicking a red fill will do the same, giving you the Bucket tool, and switching fill colors to red. But the outline tool colors are not changed. Clicking on text switches the text tool to that color, and gives you the text tool. Shift clicking with the dropper makes the color you click on active for ALL tools, and doesn't automatically switch you to any tool. It leaves the dropper active.
This is one of the least well known short cuts in Flash, and is the ONLY way to use the dropper on an outline for example, and then be able to switch to the fill tool and have that color automatically active already.

Zoom

Zoom In - CTRL + ‘+’

Zoom Out - CTRL + ‘-’

Frames
Add Frame – F5

Delete Frame – SHIFT + F5

Add Key Frame – F6

Add Blank Key Frame – F7

Symbol (MovieClip, Button, Graphic)

Turn Into Symbol – F8

Insert New Symbol - CTRL + F8

Taken from Adobe flash TechNote.