How Many Shortcut Do You Know And Use Regularly In Keyboard?

How Many Shortcut Do You Know And Use Regularly In Keyboard?

Also used with spreadsheet cells. Ctrl + Scroll - zoom web page, document, file thumbnails, or desktop icons on Vista/7 Ctrl + C on any standard error dialog box - copies error report text Alt + PrtScn - Copies an image of the current window to clipboard A note on Ctrl + Shift + Esc.Ctrl + Alt + Del now brings up a 'lock this computer' dialog on Vista/7, so I suggest you learn this one. Another perk is that on a VM or a remote control app, this will open the remote (client) machine's task manager. New Windows 7 tricks Note.Some of these tips work on Vista too Winkey + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - launch corresponding windows dock item, or app-specific alt+tab Winkey + Shift + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - launch a new window of dock item Winkey + Ctrl + Shift + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - launch a new window of dock item as administrator Winkey + Ctrl + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - show/hide all instances of app Winkey + Alt + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - show app jumplist Winkey + T - use keyboard arrow keys to navigate dock Middle click an app on dock - Open a new app instance Middle click a thumbnail from dock - Close app instance/tab Shift + drag file to a dock app - open file with dock application. (default behavior is 'pin') Drag up on dock item - Quick jumplist Shift + Right click dock item - Legacy menu Winkey and + or - , zoom in/out of screen (very [3] cool) Ctrl + Shift + N - New Folder Winkey + "c." - browse HDD from Start Menu. Tap up, down & '\' to browse directories. Winkey + Search Term - Instant search. Tap up, down & enter to select. Winkey + [dos appname] + enter - Instant app launch.no need to wait for search. Alt - bring up old-style file menus where t've been removed Winkey + P - multi-display config quick-switch (press twice to switch) Winkey + X - bring up laptop settings control panel Winkey + (shift +) tab - Flip 3D task switcher Winkey + left, right, up or down key - manage window position Drag window to left, right or top edge to 'snap' them. If all your apps disappear for no reason, DON'T PANIC. Move your mouse away from the bottom right corner. If this bugs you, right click the bottom right corner & turn off 'peek at desktop' Right-click key To the right of your space bar, there's a little 'right click' key. This thing is powerful on any PC. It's excellent for fixing typos in docs, renaming files, etc. When editing spell-checked documents, this allows you to quickly fix 'red/green wavy line' spelling or grammar errors. (firefox doesn't work with this) When a file is selected, hit the right right click key, then type 'm' for Rename, 'r' for Properties, 'n' for Send to (e.g. USB key) or 'd' for Delete. (Note the underlines in the menus) When on a flash-based site, or a site with right-click disabled - hit the right click key to get 'view source', etc. Exposes fundamental functionality when using Media Center Command line utilities (Winkey+R)."resmon" - win7 only, awesome resource monitor - bandwidth etc "perfmon" - a pretty decent performance monitor (vista, xp?) "cmd" - command line "control userpasswords2" - set windows to auto-login "dxdiag" - hardware properties (processor, ram, etc) Winkey + pause - system properties "regedit", "msconfig", "services.msc", "compmgmt.msc", "eventvwr", "appwiz.cpl" - manage system stuff "ping bing.com", "ping 192.168.0.1", "ping 10.0.0.1", "netstat", "ipconfig" - network tests (don't ping google if your homepage is also google!) "charmap" - unusual characters (also, note the keyboard shortcuts provided in its status bar only work with the numpad) "Obvious" Drag with right click - provide additional options when dragging (copy/move/create shortcut) Esc - dismiss dialog Ctrl + Shift + left or right key - select a word at a time Ctrl + Backspace - Delete a word at a time Double-click window title - maximize Space - fill in a checkbox, press the highlighted button, or scroll down Tab - When filling out forms, skip forwards through inputs Shift + Tab - When filling out forms, skip backwards through inputs Ctrl + Tab - switch windows within an application (e.g. tabs) Alt + Tab - switch between windows Ctrl + F4 - close tab/document Alt + F4 - close window Ctrl + left/right buttons - skip text by word, rather than by letter (hold shift to select) Ctrl + up/down buttons - skip text by paragraph, rather than by letter (hold shift to select) PgUp, PgDn - Scroll up/down 1 page Home - Skip to top of page End - Skip to end of page Print Screen (PrtScn) - Takes a picture of your screen and puts it in the clipboard. You can paste it in paint. F5 - refresh page/folder/dialog Backspace - Navigate to the previous page (web browsers) Ctrl + Enter - line-break (goes to next line, but not a full paragraph) Ctrl + Z - undo Ctrl + Y - redo (reverse undo - Ctrl + Shift + Z in Page Numbering Online software) Ctrl + X - cut Ctrl + C - copy Ctrl + V - paste Ctrl + S - save Ctrl + F - find in page/doc Ctrl + A - select all Shift + click items in a list - select a continuous group of sequential items from a list Ctrl + click items in a list - select multiple individual items from a list Ctrl + [B, I, U] - bold, italic, underline Ctrl + Esc or Windows Key - open start menu Borderline 'actually useful' Middle click a folder of favorites - open all favorites in new tabs Winkey + U - 'usability' (disabled) control panel Winkey + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - launches corresponding quicklaunch/win7dock item Winkey + shift + left, right, up, down - [win7], dual screen window management Winkey + space - [win7] peek at desktop Winkey + G - [vista/7] view desktop gadgets Ctrl + alt + [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] - Creates header-level text in word processors. You can use this to auto-generate a document outline or table of contents. In web apps it's just Ctrl + [1,2...] Ctrl + Shift + Right click on blank area of start menu - End explorer process (to restart, ctrl+shift+esc, file -> new task, "explorer") Alt key - use that to highlight context menus - though things are rarely consistent between different programs, so it often isn't worth it Also... You know how sometimes you'll get a barrage of dialog boxes asking "Would you like to do X to this thing? [Yes] [No]," when what you really want is a "[Yes to All]" or "[No to All]"? WELL, if you hold down 'Shift' when you click Yes or No, many core windows dialog boxes will interpret it as "[Yes/No to All]" == WinMover (http.//majorgeeks.com/WinMover_d4961.html ) Alt-LeftDrag to move, Alt-RightDrag to resize, Alt-scroll to minimze/restore. WARNING.Addictive! == Alt + Space, M, Left-Click + Drag - Move window!Alt + Space, S, Arrow key to select edge, move mouse - Resize! (don't even need Drag, just move the mouse will do) Left-Click or Enter to confirm new edge position, Esc to cancel resize and revert to old position Winkey + Break - System information (Pause/Break in most systems) Alt + Space - Window menu (Minimize, Maximize etc) Alt + Enter - File/Folder Properties Winkey + E - Explorer Run + "." - Home Folder Winkey + U - Utility manager (Don't ever do this) BACKSPACE - Folder one level up Alt + [+/-] - Forward / Back Ctrl + Numpad '+'.autosize columns in explorer. ==== For restarting Windows Explorer... For Vista/7, open the Start menu, hold Ctrl + Shift and right-click an empty area, then Exit Explorer. To start Explorer again, open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Escape), then File - New Task, and type "explorer." == Specific Applications Ctrl + PgDn/PgUp changes tabs in Excel. Ctrl + = makes text subscript in Word. Toss a shift in to make it superscript. Common alt-codes include 0176 for the degrees sign (edit.I explained this to a friend of mine in 4th year and she almost slapped me - she'd been doing it Insert > Symbol the whole time) and 0177 for plus-minus.