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
Copy the highlighted text or selected
item.
Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert
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
Open the Find in any program. This
includes your Internet browser to
find text on the current page.
Alt + Tab or Alt + Esc
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 will save that file.
This shortcut key should be used
frequently anytime you're working on
anything important.
Ctrl + Home or Ctrl + End
Move the cursor to the beginning or
end of a document.
Ctrl + P
Print the page being viewed. For
example, the document in Microsoft
Word or the web page in your
Internet browser.
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 will also
move the page down one page at a
time. If you press Shift and the
Space bar the page will go up a
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.
