You don’t want to waste any time while you’re playing a real-time strategy game. It’s all about optimization, so when you’re playing Warcraft 3: Reforged, you need to spend every second doing something important. A great way to do that is to use your hotkeys rather than relying on your mouse to solely lead you to victory. If you only use your mouse, it’s easy to get behind when fighting opponents who have every hotkey on their keyboard memorized, and they can swiftly order their troops around the map.
There are two sets of hotkeys you need to know: Menu commands and Game commands. Menu commands are all the interacting with your game to save it, load a new, active the help menu, or toggling sound. Game commands are about controlling your armies, your heroes, telling them how to act, select idle units, and much more.
Menu Commands
These are all of the menu hotkeys you have available to you.
| Hotkey | What it does |
| Alt + F4 or Alt + Q | Exit Warcraft 3: Reforged |
| Alt + O | Open Options Menu |
| Alt + S | Open the Save Menu |
| Alt + L | Open the Load Menu |
| Alt + H | Open the Help Menu |
| Ctrl + M | Toggle Music on/off |
| Ctrl + S | Toggle SFX on/off |
| Esc | Go back a menu |
| F9 | Toggle Quest Log on/off |
| F10 | Toggle the Game Menu on/off |
| F11 | Toggle the Allies Menu on/off |
| F12 | Toggle the Chat Menu on/off |
Game Commands
These are all of the hotkeys you need to know to control your troops and give them orders with a quick button click.
| Hotkeys | What it does |
| Alt (hold) | Override formation movement during an action |
| Arrow Keys | Scroll game view |
| Backspace | Cycle through town center buildings |
| Ctrl (hold) | Send an order to currently active subgroup |
| Ctrl + Any Number | Assign selected units to a group |
| Ctrl + C or Alt + C | Center on the selected unit (portrait at the bottom) |
| Ctrl + Enter | Send a message to allies only |
| Ctrl + Selected Unit | Select all units of that type |
| Delete | Rotate the camera to the right |
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| Enter | Open the game message system |
| Esc | Cancel commands |
| F1 to F7 | Select heroes. Press twice to center on them |
| F8 | Select idle workers. Press twice to center on them |
| Insert | Rotate the camera to the left |
| Middle Mouse Button | Hold down to scroll the game view |
| Mouse Wheel Down or Page Down | Zoom in the game camera |
| Mouse Wheel Up or Page Up | Zoom out the game camera |
| Number | Select group. Press twice to center on them |
| Print Scrn | Take a screenshot of your game |
| Shift + Any Number | Assign a unit to a group |
| Shift + Enter | Send a message to all players in a game |
| Shift + Select Unit | Add or remove a unit from the current selection |
| Spacebar | Center on last notifications |
| Tab | Switch between subgroups |
You also have the option to modify these hotkeys with some of your preferred choices. When you open up the main menu screen, click on the button with three lines in it on the lower right to open up the menu. Go to the input option, and the bottom, you should see the choice to preset your keybindings. You need to add a file to your Warcraft 3 game called CustomKeys.txt under the CustomKeyBindings file.
