Saturday, March 17, 2012

Essential Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

After reading an interesting tweet about the time saved utilizing shortcuts, but with no useful link attached I figured it’s worthwhile to do a post about the basics I use daily.

OS
'PrtScn' - Save screen capture to clipboard.
'Windows button' - Opens start menu.
'Windows button' + 'Tab' - Show all active windows in task bar.
'Windows button' + 'm' - Show desktop \ minimize all.
'Windows button' + 'l' - Lock computer.
'Alt' + 'Tab' - Toggle open programs.
'Alt' + 'PrtScn' - Save focused window as screen cap to clipboard.
   
General App Shortcuts
'Ctrl' + 'z' - Undo last action.
'Ctrl' + 'y' - Redo last action.
'Crtl' + 'o' - Open.
'Crtl' + 's' - Save.
'Ctrl' + 'w' - Close active file/window.
'Crtl' + 'q' - Quit application.
'Ctrl' + 'f' - Find.
   
Text or files & folders
'Ctrl' + 'a' - Select all.
'Ctrl' + 'x' - Cut to clipboard.
'Ctrl' + 'c' - Copy.
'Ctrl' + 'v' - Paste.
   
Browser Shortcuts
'F5' - Refresh current page.
'Ctrl' + 'F5' - Force reload of current page.
'Backspace' - Back to previous page(s).
   

Update (2012/06/17):
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/keyboard.aspx
Currently the above link provides all the Microsoft shortcut keys you’ll ever need: Windows, Internet Explorer, Office 2003-2010 to name but a few.

No comments:

Post a Comment