# Extra Menu: Seek

From Audacity Development Manual
The Extra > Seek menu provides menu equivalents for the short and long seek commands.

These commands skip the playback cursor backwards (left) or forwards (right) by a short or long period of time. You can change the length of the default short or long period to be skipped at "Seek Time when playing" in the Playback Preferences.

| You cannot seek backwards to left of the current position of the playback cursor.

## Short Seek Left During Playback Left

Moves play head left by 1 second.

## Short Seek Right During Playback Right

Moves play head right by 1 second.

## Long Seek Left During Playback Shift + Left

Moves play head left by 15 seconds.

## Long Seek Right During Playback Shift + Right

Moves play head right by 15 seconds.