Tips and Tricks-July 2005

Keyboard Shortcuts

From time to time, I have given you keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Office and Internet Explorer in different articles. Thanks to an inspiration from Paul Rogers who saw the idea in PC World, I am compiling these into a list that you can cut out and post by your computer to help you remember them. These came from the Microsoft site originally and if you really want to see all the shortcuts, do a search for “keyboard shortcuts” and “Office keyboard shortcuts.”

General Shortcuts that work in Windows XP and many other programs

  Alt+Underlined letter in a menu name

Ctrl+C

Copy selection to the clipboard

Ctrl+X

Cut selection.

Ctrl+V

Paste a copied selection

Ctrl+Z

Undo whatever you last did

Delete

Delete the selection

Shift+Delete

Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin.

Ctrl+Shift while dragging an item.

Create a shortcut to the selected item.

F2 key

Rename the selected item.

Ctrl+Right

Arrow Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word.

Ctrl+Left

Arrow Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word

Ctrl+Down

Arrow Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph

Ctrl+Up

Arrow Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph

Ctrl+Shift with any of the arrow keys

Highlight a block of text

Shift with any of the arrow keys

Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document

Ctrl+A

Select all

F3 key

Search for a file or a folder

Alt+Enter

View the properties for the selected site

Alt+F4

Close the active item, or quit the active program

Alt+Enter

Display the properties of the selected object

Alt+Spacebar

Open the shortcut menu for the active window

Ctrl+F4

Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously

Alt+Tab

Switch between the open items

Alt+Esc

Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened

F6 key

Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop

F4 key

Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer

Shift+F10

Display the shortcut menu for the selected item

Alt+Spacebar

Display the System menu for the active window

Ctrl+Esc

Display the Start menu

 

Display the corresponding menu

 

Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu Perform the corresponding command

F10 key

Activate the menu bar in the active program

Right Arrow

Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu

Left Arrow

Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu

F5 key

Update the active window

Backspace

View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer

Esc

Cancel the current task

Ctrl+Tab

Move forward through the tabs

Ctrl+Shift+Tab

Move backward through the tabs

T ab

Move forward through the options

Shift+Tab

Move backward through the options

Alt+Underlined Letter

Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option

Enter

Perform the command for the active option or button

Spacebar

Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box

Arrow keys

Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons

F1 key

Display Help

F4 key

Display the items in the active list

Backspace

Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box

 

 

Microsoft Word Shortcuts

 

Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar

Create a non-breaking space

Ctrl+Hyphen

Create a non-breaking hyphen

Ctrl+B

Make letters bold

Ctrl+I

Make letters italic.

Ctrl+U

Make letters underline

Ctrl+Shift+<

Decrease font size

Ctrl+Shift+>

Increase font size.

Ctrl+Spacebar

Remove paragraph or character formatting

Ctrl+C

Copy the selected text or object

Ctrl+X

Cut the selected text or object

Ctrl+V

Paste text or an object.

Ctrl+Z

Undo the last action

Ctrl+Y

Redo the last action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try to learn at least a few of these to speed up your computing. Anytime you can avoid switching to the mouse, you will save time.

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