Using keyboard shortcuts
can greatly increase your productivity, reduce repetitive strain, and help keep
you focused. 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.
Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert and Ctrl+X
Both Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Insert will
copy highlighted text or a selected item. If you want
to cut an item instead of copying it,
press Ctrl+X.
This action removes the text or item and stores it in the clipboard for you.
On Apple computers,
use Cmd+C instead.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Both the Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert will paste the
text or object that's stored in the clipboard.
On Apple computers,
use Cmd+V instead.
Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y
Pressing Ctrl+Z will undo any
change. For example, if you cut text, pressing this key combination will undo
the cut. These shortcuts can also be pressed multiple times to undo or redo
multiple changes. Pressing Ctrl+Y would redo the
undo.
On Apple computers,
use Cmd+Z and Cmd+Y to undo and redo.
Ctrl+F and Ctrl+G
Pressing Ctrl+F opens
the Find field, which allows you to search the
text currently displayed in any program that supports it.
On Apple computers,
use Cmd+F to find.
Ctrl+G may be used to repeat a search (from
using Ctrl+F) in a document or on a web 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 the
Tab key to cycle through each open program.
On Apple computers,use Cmd+Tab to
switch between open programs.
Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Left or
Right arrow
Pressing Ctrl+Backspace deletes
a full word at a time instead of a single character.
Holding down the Ctrl
key while pressing the left or right arrow moves 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, then
press the left or right arrow key. Your highlighted selection
moves one word at a time in that direction.
Ctrl+S
While working on a document or another file in almost every program,
pressing Ctrl+S saves that file.
On Apple computers,
use Cmd+S to save a file.
Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End
Ctrl+Home moves
the cursor to the beginning of the document, and Ctrl+End moves the cursor to the end
of a document.
On Apple computers, use
the Cmd + up arrow to get to the beginning or Cmd +
down arrow to get to the end of a document or text.
Ctrl+P
Control+P is used to open
a print preview of the page or document currently
being viewed.
On Apple computers,
use Cmd+P to open the print preview.
Page Up, Spacebar, and Page Down
As you may have guessed,
pressing either the page up or page
down key moves to the next or previous page. When browsing the
Internet, pressing the spacebar moves
the scrollbar down
a page. Similarly, Shift+spacebar moves the
scrollbar up one page.
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