What keyboard shortcut is there to organize C# usings in Visual Studio?

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Nick L. picture Nick L. · Jan 27, 2015 · Viewed 31.4k times · Source

Is there a way to organize C# usings (remove and sort, in separate or together) via a shortcut in Visual Studio for one or more files of a project?

I know that this can be done via the menu for one file by selecting

Edit > IntelliSense > Organize Usings > Remove and Sort

but I want to do this much faster. I am using Visual Studio 2013 Express for C# development (wondering how this can be done in older & other versions too though). Thank you in advance.

Answer

James Ko picture James Ko · Jul 8, 2017

Since VS2017, it's a builtin shortcut. Simply press Ctrl + R, Ctrl + G. Credit goes to Emanuel Ve, who mentioned this first in the comments; I'm putting the advice into an answer for greater visibility.

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