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
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.
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