Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity, reduce repetitive strain, and help keep you focused.Below are our top 10 keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone memorize and use.
1. Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert
à Copy the highlighted text or selected item
2. Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
à Paste the text or object that's in the clipboard
3. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y
à 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
4. Start+D
à Minimize all the program that open on that time
5. Start+E
à Open My Computer
6. Alt+Tab or Alt+Esc
à Quickly switch between open program moving forward.
àPress Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs in a program.
à 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.
Windows Vista and 7 users can also press the Windows Key + Tab to switch through open programs in a full screenshot of the Window.
7. Ctrl + Back space
àPressing Ctrl + Backspace will delete a full word at a time instead of a single character.
8. Ctrl + Left arrow / Right arrow
àMove 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 and then press the left or right arrow key to move one word at a time in that direction while highlighting each word.
9. Ctrl + P
àPrint the page being viewed. For example, the document in Microsoft Word or the web page in your Internet browser.
10. Page Up / Space bar and Page Down
àPressing 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.
Watch this video for how to assign shortcut keys on a PC
