June 23, 2011 Kathleen M. Sasala, Esq., Librarian |
In today’s Lunch & Learn program, we will cover a lot of keyboard shortcuts for the Windows environment. You may know some of them, but you may also learn a few new tricks.
Alt + E | Brings up the “Edit” Menu options |
Alt + F | Brings up the “File” menu options |
Alt + F4 | Quits a program or closes the current window |
Alt + Tab | Hold the Alt key down and hit the Tab key to toggle between screens or open programs |
Arrow Keys | Selects a button if the active option is a group of option buttons |
Ctrl + A | Selects all of the text or items in the current window |
Ctrl + Alt + Delete | Brings up the windows task manager |
Ctrl + B | Bold |
Ctrl + C | Copy |
Ctrl + Delete | Delete the next word |
Ctrl + E | Align text centered |
Ctrl + End | Move to the end of a document |
Ctrl + Esc | Opens the Start Menu |
Ctrl + F | Opens the Find dialog box |
Ctrl + Home | Move to the top of a document |
Ctrl + I | Italics |
Ctrl + J | Justify text |
Ctrl + L | Align text left |
Ctrl + N | Creates a new document |
Ctrl + O | Opens a new document or the Open dialog box |
Ctrl + P | Opens the print manager |
Ctrl + Page Down | Move down 1 page in a document |
Ctrl + Page Up | Move up 1 page in a document |
Ctrl + R | Align text right |
Ctrl + S | Saves changes to a document |
Ctrl + Shift + Esc | Opens the Windows Task Manager |
Ctrl + U | Underline |
Ctrl + V | Paste |
Ctrl + X | Cut |
Ctrl + Z | Undo |
Ctrl + + | Zoom the screen to larger (sometimes you can also use Windows Logo + +) |
Ctrl + - | Zoom the screen to smaller (sometimes you can also use Windows Logo + -) |
Ctrl + 1 | Sets single spaced text |
Ctrl + 2 | Sets double spaced text |
Ctrl + 5 | Sets spacing to 1.5 |
End | Goes to the end of the current line |
Enter | This is equivalent to clicking the selected button |
Esc | This is equivalent to clicking the cancel button |
F-1 | Starts Windows Help!!! |
F2 | Rename an object |
F3 | Find |
F5 | Refreshes the current window or page |
F6 | Moves along panes in Windows Explorer |
F11 | Full Screen mode |
Home | Goes to the beginning of the current line |
PgDn | Moves the page or screen down 1 page or screen |
PgUp | Moves the page or screen up 1 page or screen |
Shift + F10 | Opens a shortcut window (like right-clicking) |
Shift + Tab | Move to the previous control in the dialog box |
Tab | Move to the next control in the dialog box, move forward through options |
Windows Logo | Opens the Start Menu |
Windows Logo + D | Minimizes all windows and displays the desktop |
Windows Logo + E | Opens Windows Explorer |
Windows Logo + M | Minimizes all open windows |
Windows Logo + R | Opens the Run dialog box |
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