Keyboard Shortcuts Guaranteed to Save You Time

By Heather In Technology With Comment Off

Windows/Mac OS

Ctrl + C / Ctrl + Insert
Copies highlighted text or selects item.
Ctrl + V / Shift + Insert
Takes copied text (or object) in the clipboard and pastes it to desired area.
Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y
This function undoes previous changes. After copying text Ctrl+Z (Ctrl+Y) will undo it. Press multiple times to undo multiple changes.
Ctrl + S
Ctrl + S saves that file. This shortcut key is often used frequently when working on anything important.
Ctrl + F
Opens a “Find” option in any program (Word, Notepad, etc.) . This includes Internet browsers (below) to find text on the current page.
Alt + Tab / Alt + Esc
The most common use of Alt+Tab is to alternate between the two most recent tasks, but it can also be used to switch to any running program that has a top-level window.

Ctrl + Tab
Switches between tabs in a program.
Ctrl + Back space and Ctrl + Left arrow / Right arrow
This maneuver deletes a full word forward and back at a time instead of a single character.
Ctrl + Home / End
Just as you might imagine: It moves the cursor to the beginning or end of a document.
Ctrl + P
This simple function prints the page being viewed.
Page Up / Space bar and Page Down
The page up or page down function moves one page at a time either up or down. When browsing the Internet pressing the space bar will also move the page down one page at a time. Press Shift+Space bar and the page moves one at a time.

About the author

: Heather

Growing up, I had trouble reconciling my girly impulses with my tomboy pursuits. I spent hours hosting elaborate tea parties for my stuffed animals. I also enjoyed sitting outside, covered in mud, dismantling my father's latest gadget to 'see how it worked.' These two things, a desire to make things pretty and an obsession with technology, naturally drew me to computers and the internet. I made my first website in 1994 for my eighth grade technology project. In college, I was frustrated that I could find no programs offering both web design and coding. My academic advisor explained that no one did both - you either made pretty designs or you wrote the code. Design without coding, and vice versa, was incredibly boring. Disheartened, I majored in Psychology and kept website development as a hobby. In 2001, a company asked if they could advertise on one of my many fansites. Until this point, I truly didn't think you could make money online. That first advertising check turned my hobby into a career. For more than ten years, I have been working with clients to define effective web strategies, create intuitive user experiences, design elegant interfaces, market the sites I help create, and then measure, analyze, and improve performance.

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