Shift+Enter
The keyboard shortcut to run the current cell and advance to the next.
- Ctrl+Enter runs in place.
- Alt/Option+Enter runs and inserts below.
- Same in Jupyter, JupyterLab, VS Code, Colab, Kaggle.
When to use: Every notebook session - the dominant navigation primitive.
Example: Edit cell 3, Shift+Enter runs it and focus advances to cell 4.