Using keyboard shortcuts can importantly increase your output, decrease
boring stress, and help keep you motivated. For example, to copy text you can
highlight text and press the Ctrl + C shortcut. The shortcut is faster than
moving your hands from the keyboard, highlighting with the mouse, choosing copy
from the file menu, and then returning to the keyboard. Below are the top 10
keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone learn and use.
Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert and Ctrl + X
Ctrl + C and Ctrl +insert will copy the highlighted text or selected item. If you want to cut instead of copy
press Ctrl + X.
Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert
The Ctrl + V and Shift + Insert will
paste the text
Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y
Pressing Ctrl + Z will undo any change. For
example, if you cut text, pressing this will undo it. These shortcuts can also
be pressed multiple times to undo or redo multiple changes. Pressing Ctrl
+ Y would redo the
undo
Ctrl + F
Pressing Ctrl + F opens the find in any
program. Ctrl + F includes your Internet browser to find text on the
current page.
Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab
Pressing Alt + Tab switches between open
programs moving forward. For example, if you have your browser window open and
other programs running in the background press and hold Alt and then press tab
to cycle through each open program.
Tip: Press Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs in a program.
For example, if you have multiple tabs open in your browser now press Ctrl +
Tab to switch between open tabs.
Tip: Adding the shift
key to Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab moves backward. For
example, if you are pressing Alt + Tab and pass the program you want to use,
press Alt + Shift + Tab to move back to that program.
Tip: Windows 7 users can also press the windows key+ Tab to switch through open programs in a full
screenshot of the window.
Ctrl + Back space and Ctrl + Left or Right
arrow
Pressing Ctrl + backspace will delete a full word at
a time instead of a single character.
Holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the left
or right arrow will move the cursor one word at a time instead of one
character at a time. If you want to highlight one word at a time, hold down Ctrl
+ Shift and then press the left or right arrow key to
move one word at a time in that direction while highlighting each word.
Ctrl + S
While working on a document or other file in almost every
program, pressing Ctrl + S saves that file. Use this shortcut key
frequently if you're working on anything important in case an error happens,
you lose power, or other problem that causes you to lose any work since the
last save.
Ctrl + Home or Ctrl + End
Ctrl + Home will move the cursor to the beginning of
the document, and Ctrl + End will move the cursor to the end
of a document. These shortcuts work with most documents, as well as web pages.
Ctrl + P
Open a print preview of the current page or document being
viewed. For example, press Ctrl + P now to view a print preview of
this page.
Page Up, Space bar, and Page Down
Pressing either the page
up page down key
will move that page one page at a time in that direction. When browsing the
Internet, pressing the space bar also
moves the page down one page at a time.
Tip: If you are using the space bar to go down one page at a
time, press the shift key and space
bar to go up one page at a time.
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