There are many hidden shortcuts and tricks that are possible in World of Warcraft that can improve your gameplay. These range from keybinds, macros, slash commands and hidden shortcuts.

Many of the actions that are performable in game with the use of the mouse are also possible using slash commands. Most of these are also usable in macros. The following lists the common slash commands that are available in the game.

General Commands

/help
Gives very general basic help.

/assist [name]
Assist your currently selected target, or target player if specified.

/cast spell
Cast the named spell, which may include the rank in parenthesis. For example: “/cast Slow Fall”, “/cast Polymorph(Rank 2)”.

/afk [message]
Toggle yourself as “away from keyboard”. Typing /afk again will turn off AFK mode.

/combatlog
Toggle logging of your Combat Log into (wow folder)\Logs\PlayerCombatLog.txt.

/dnd [message]
Toggle yourself as “do not disturb”. Typing /dnd again will turn off DND mode.

/duel [name]
Request a duel with your target, or target player if specified.

/yield
(/forfeit) Surrender to your opponent in a duel.

/emote message
(/em, /me) Emote the message.

/exit
Exits the game.

/follow
(/f) Automatically move to follow your current target.

/ignore name
Toggle ignoring target player.

/inspect
(/ins) Inspect the target player to see his equipment.

/logout
(/camp) Sit down and logout.

/macro
Open the Macro Interface

/macrohelp
Gives basic help on making macros.

/played
Show how much time your character has been online.

/pvp
Enable PvP for the next 5 minutes.

/raid message
(/r) Send the message to your raid chat.

/random number [number2]
(/rnd, /rand) Roll a random number between 1 and number, or between number and number2 if specified.

/remfriend name
(/removefriend) Remove a friend from your friends list.

/split money
Split the specified amount of money among your party members.

/target name
(/tar) Change the currently selected target to the specified player.

/time
Show the current game and server time.

/trade
(/tr) Initiate a trade with your selected target.

/who [string[ string2…]] [num[-num2]] [r-”race”] [c-”class”] [z-”zone”] [g-”guild”]
With no arguments, lists online players around your level in the current zone. string will list all players whose name, guild, class, race or zone contain the specified string. num[-num2] will list players within the specified level range.

/bug
Submit a bug report.

/suggest
Submit a suggestion.

/note message
Submit a message.

/script LUA-command
For UI creators.

/console command
For performing some game console commands, such as “gxrestart”, “reloadui” and “quit”.

/console settingname [newsetting]
For tweaking of game settings.

Group Leader Commands

/invite [name]
(/inv) Invite target player to your group.

/uninvite [name]
(/un) Remove target player from your group.

/ffa
Set “free for all” loot policy.

/master [name]
Set target player to be the master looter in “master loot” loot policy.

/roundrobin
Set “round robin” loot policy.

Chat Commands

/guild message
(/g) Send the message to your guild chat channel.

/party message
(/p) Send the message to your party chat.

/reply message
(/r, R) Send the message to the last player to whisper to you.

/say message
(/s) Send the message to people around you.

/yell message
(/shout) Send the message to people around you (very big radius, near zone-wide).

/whisper name message
(/w, /tell) Whisper the message to target player.

Chat Channel Commands

/chat
(/chathelp) Display a list of chat commands.

/join channel [password]
(/chan, /channel) Join (or create) the specified chat channel.

/leave channel|#
(/chatleave, /chatexit) Leave the specified chat channel, you can also specify the channel number.

/# message
(/c, /csay) Send the message to channel number #.

/announcements channel|#
(/ann) Toggle join/leave announcements on specified channel.

/ban channel|# name
Ban target player from specified channel.

/unban channel|# name
Unban target player from specified channel.

/chatlist
(/chatwho, /chatinfo) Lists all the channels you are on with their associated channel number.

/chatinvite channel|# name
(/cinvite) Invite target player to specified channel.

/ckick channel|# name
Kicks target player out of specified channel.

/moderator channel|# name
(/mod) Set target player to moderator status on specified channel.

/unmoderator channel|# name
(/unmod) Remove moderator status from target player on specified channel.

/moderate channel|#
Toggle moderation mode on specified channel.

/mute channel|# name
(/squelch, /unvoice) Disallow target player to speak on specified channel.

/unmute channel|# name
(/unsquelch, /voice) Allow target player to speak on specified channel.

/password channel|# [password]
(/pass) Set, change or remove the channel password.

/owner channel|# [name]
Display or change the owner of specified channel.

Guild Commands

/ginfo
Gives basic information about your guild.

/g message
(/guild) Sends a chat message to all members of your guild

/o message
Sends a chat message to all officers of your guild

/ginvite name
(/guildinvite) Invites target player to join your guild

/gremove name
(/guildremove) Removes target player from your guild

/gpromote name
(/guildpromote) Promotes target player one rank within your guild

/gdemote name
(/guilddemote) Demotes target player one rank within your guild

/gmotd message
(/guildmotd) Sets the guild’s message of the day

/gquit
(/guildquit) Removes you from your guild

/groster
(/guildroster) Gives an entire guild roster (officers and leaders only)

/gleader name
(/guildleader) Sets target player as the guild leader (guild leader only)

/gdisband
(/guilddisband) Disbands your guild (guild leader only)

Emote and Voice Emote Commands

For a full listing of all emotes and voice emote commands, visit our Emotes page.

Other Shortcuts

Your mouse can perform a multitude of things that can’t be performed otherwise.

Right-Click

• On any enemy to initiate melee attack on it. This works the same as the default key “T”.
• On any object to activate/loot it.
• On an NPC to talk with it.
• On any item to activate its effects. Some effects require a target.
• On an item in the vendor window to buy it.
• On an equipable item to equip it if possible.
• When your Vendor window is open, right clicking an item will sell it instantly.
• When you bank window is open, right click on an item in your inventory to move it into your bank (does not activate/use the item) into a computer-decided empty slot in the bank.
• Similarly, you can right click any item in your bank (even an item in a bag in the bank) to move it into your inventory.

SHIFT+Left Click

• On a stack of items to seperate them into 2 stacks.
• On a player name in the Chat Window which is surrounded by [] brackets to do a /who on him.
• On a spell in your spellbook to auto-generate the /cast spellname(rank x) text into your Macro window.
• On any bag in your toolbar to open/close ALL your bags at a go. (Or just rebind B to open all bags) Shift+Right-Click works for this too.
• On any item in the Vendor window to buy more than ONE of that item at a time. Say you buy want to buy 20 Coarse threads, just Shift+Left-Click on the Coarse Thread, type 20. You can only purchase up to one stack this way (so you can’t do 21 and more). Shift+Right-Click works for this too.

SHIFT+Right Click

• On any lootable object to autoloot everything in it (corpse, mineral node, skinning, quest object, etc)

Left AND Right Click

• Hold down both Left and Right buttons simultaeneously to walk forward using mouselook.

While your chat typing box is active

• Shift+Left-Click on an item to link it into the text. You can link items from your inventory, quest log, profession skill windows and even the auction house. Does not work in General Chat.
• Shift+Left-Click on any quest in your Quest Log to copy the quest name into the current chat.
• Alt-Left and Alt-Right moves your cursor to the left or right so you can edit what you type.
• Alt-Up and Alt-Down scrolls through the last 10 or so commands/text messages that you have typed.
• Ctrl-Backspace deletes everything from the cursor to the start of the line.
• Alt-Ctrl-Left, Alt-Ctrl-Right moves the cursor to the beginning or the previous or next word. Hold down Shift too if you want to highlight the text.
• Alt-Home and Alt-End moves the cursor to the start/end of the line. Hold down Shift to highlight.

Other Chat-related shortcuts

• Hit R to reply automatically to the last person who whispered to you.
• Hit R, then press TAB TAB TAB to cycle through a list of all players who last whispered to you so you can easily hold multiple chat conversations.
• When typing any slash command, you can use TAB to autocomplete it. For example, typing /as followed by pressing Tab Tab Tab will cycle through the slash commands beginning with AS.
• Left-Click on a name in the chat window which is surrounded by [] brackets, to do an automatic /whisper to him (/tell, /w).
• When you hover your mouse over a chat window pane. A “Tab” will appear after a few seconds for that chat pane. Right click on that Tab to see chat options for that pane (a big menu). Drag that Tab to move the pane. Available only when chat settings are not locked.

Other Useful Things

The (wow folder)\WTF\Account\accountname\ folder contains all of your personal settings. The files in your “accountname” folder contain account-wide settings (graphics, sound, interface, keybinds, etc). The 2 files in your specific character subfolder contain your character-specific Chat settings (position, colour, channels, etc). You can copy the 2 files in your character’s folder to another char to copy all Chat settings, colours, etc. Very useful when you make a new character.

You will be often told to delete your WTF folder should any data/settings get corrupted. If you do so, you will lose all personal settings. The WDB folder can be deleted safely, they contain temporary cache files for the game.

The (wow)\Interface\AddOns\ folder contains UI addons if you have any. Each addon requires a .toc file. Inside this .toc file, one of the required lines say

## Interface: 4150

where 4150 is the build number of WoW.exe which this UI is made for. The WoW build number can be found by running the game. At the login screen in the bottom left corner, you will see the build number, copyright info and stuff. When WoW patches to a new version, the build number will change, and you have to modify all the .toc files in your addon folder to update this number or the addon UI will be deemed to be an “outdated version” and stop working.

Key Binds

In the options menu, players can easily rebind and remap all of the hotkeys to their convenience. The following lists all the default settings in the game. Some functions do not have any keys bound by default.

Command	Key 1	Key 2
Move Forward	W	Up Arrow
Move Backward	S	Down Arrow
Turn Left	A	Left Arrow
Turn Right	D	Right Arrow
Strafe Left	Q
Strafe Right	E
Jump	Spacebar	Num Pad 0
Toggle Sit/Stand	X
Sheath/Unsheath Weapon	Z
Toggle Autorun	Num Lock	Mouse Button 4
Pitch Up	Insert
Pitch Down	Delete
Toggle Run/Walk	Num Pad /
Follow Target
Open Chat	Enter
Open Chat Slash	/
Chat Page Up	Page Up
Chat Page Down	Page Down
Chat Bottom	SHIFT-Page Down
Chat Reply	R
Combat Log Page Up	CTRL-Page Up
Combat Log Page Down	CTRL-Page Down
Combat Log Bottom	CTRL-SHIFT-Page Down
Toggle Combat Log	SHIFT-C
Action Button 1	1
Action Button 2	2
Action Button 3	3
Action Button 4	4
Action Button 5	5
Action Button 6	6
Action Button 7	7
Action Button 8	8
Action Button 9	9
Action Button 10	0
Action Button 11	-
Action Button 12	=
Self Action Button 1	ALT-1
Self Action Button 2	ALT-2
Self Action Button 3	ALT-3
Self Action Button 4	ALT-4
Self Action Button 5	ALT-5
Self Action Button 6	ALT-6
Self Action Button 7	ALT-7
Self Action Button 8	ALT-8
Self Action Button 9	ALT-9
Self Action Button 10	ALT-0
Self Action Button 11	ALT–
Self Action Button 12	ALT-=
Special Action Button 1	CTRL-F1
Special Action Button 2	CTRL-F2
Special Action Button 3	CTRL-F3
Special Action Button 4	CTRL-F4
Special Action Button 5	CTRL-F5
Special Action Button 6	CTRL-F6
Special Action Button 7	CTRL-F7
Special Action Button 8	CTRL-F8
Special Action Button 9	CTRL-F9
Special Action Button 10	CTRL-F10
Secondary Action Button 1	CTRL-1
Secondary Action Button 2	CTRL-2
Secondary Action Button 3	CTRL-3
Secondary Action Button 4	CTRL-4
Secondary Action Button 5	CTRL-5
Secondary Action Button 6	CTRL-6
Secondary Action Button 7	CTRL-7
Secondary Action Button 8	CTRL-8
Secondary Action Button 9	CTRL-9
Secondary Action Button 10	CTRL-0
Action Page 1	SHIFT-1
Action Page 2	SHIFT-2
Action Page 3	SHIFT-3
Action Page 4	SHIFT-4
Action Page 5	SHIFT-5
Action Page 6	SHIFT-6
Previous Action Bar	SHIFT-Up Arrow	SHIFT-Mouse Wheel Up
Next Action Bar	SHIFT-Down Arrow	SHIFT-Mouse Wheel Down
Target Nearest Enemy	Tab
Target Previous Enemy	SHIFT-Tab
Target Nearest Friend	CTRL-Tab
Target Previous Friend	CTRL-SHIFT-Tab
Target Self	F1
Target Party Member 1	F2
Target Party Member 2	F3
Target Party Member 3	F4
Target Party Member 4	F5
Target Pet	SHIFT-F1
Target Party Pet 1	SHIFT-F2
Target Party Pet 2	SHIFT-F3
Target Party Pet 3	SHIFT-F4
Target Party Pet 4	SHIFT-F5
Target Last Hostile	G
Assist Target	F
Show Name Plates	V
Attack Target	T
Pet Attack	SHIFT-T
Toggle Character Pane	C
Toggle Backpack	B	F12
Toggle Bag 1	F8
Toggle Bag 2	F9
Toggle Bag 3	F10
Toggle Bag 4	F11
Open/Close All Bags	SHIFT-B
Toggle Spellbook	P
Toggle Pet Book	SHIFT-I
Toggle Talent Pane	N
Toggle Pet Pane	SHIFT-P
Toggle Reputation Pane	U
Toggle Skill Pane	K
Toggle Quest Log	L
Toggle Game Menu	ESCAPE
Toggle Minimap
Toggle World Map Pane	M
Toggle Social Pane	O
Toggle Friends Pane
Toggle Who Pane
Toggle Guild Pane
Toggle Raid Pane
Minimap Zoom In	Num Pad +
Minimap Zoom Out	Num Pad -
Toggle Music	CTRL-M
Toggle Sound	CTRL-S
Master Volume Up	CTRL-+
Master Volume Down	CTRL–
Toggle User Interface	Alt-Z
Toggle Framerate Display	CTRL-R
Next View	End
Previous View	Home
Zoom In	Mouse Wheel Up
Zoom Out	Mouse Wheel Down
Set View 1
Set View 2
Set View 3
Set View 4
Set View 5
Save View 2
Save View 3
Save View 4
Save View 5
Reset View 2
Reset View 3
Reset View 4
Reset View 5
Flip Camera

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