Top 10 keyboard
shortcuts Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity,
reduce repetitive strain, and help keep you focused. For example, highlighting
text with the keyboard and pressing Ctrl + C is much faster than taking your
hand from the keyboard, highlighting the text using the mouse, clicking copy
from the file menu, and then putting your hand back in place on the keyboard.
Below are our
Top 10 keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone memorize and use.
Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert
Both Ctrl + C and Ctrl + Insert will copy the highlighted
text or selected item.
Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert
Both the Ctrl + V and Shift + Insert will paste the text or
object that's in the clipboard.
Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y
Undo any change. For example, if you cut text, pressing this
will undo it. This can also often be pressed multiple times to undo multiple
changes. Pressing Ctrl + Y would redo the undo.
Ctrl + F
Pressing Ctrl + F opens the Find in any program. This
includes your Internet browser to find text on the current page.
Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab
Quickly switch between open programs moving forward.
Tip: Press Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs in a program.
Tip: Adding the Shift key to Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab will
move backwards. For example, if you are pressing Alt + Tab and pass the program
you want to switch to, press Alt + Shift + Tab to move backwards to that
program.
Tip: Windows Vista and 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 wanted to highlight one word at a time you can 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. This shortcut key should be used
frequently anytime you're working on anything important.
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.
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 or 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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