You can save yourself some time by employing some shortcuts. Some people
call them "accelereators" but seriuosly...
If you know enough of these you can basically do just about everything
without even using your mouse. This frees your right-hand for... um...
other things... like more typing .
Please feel free to email me with any shortcuts not mentioned here (like
application specific shortcuts!) or web-pages with keyboard shortcuts
listed and I will link to them.
Keyboard shortcuts - update 09/14/01
Christian (a Tweak Central visitor from Germany!) was kind enough to send
me this link:
A kind gentleman by the name of Thomas Bering sent me a keyboard shortcut
last month. He said he was working on making a printable keyboard shortcuts
sheet for his work. Well crap. I said, send that bad boy over here and
I'll make it available for everyone! He sent it the following day and
it only took me a month to get around to posting it. Hey, I don't want
to hear it ok...
Start using these and pretty soon you'll be a pro (like me!... yeh)
To:
Press:
Comments:
Navigation:
Highlight
Shift + Arrow keys
You can combine Shift-and Ctrl-and Arrow keys to highlight large
protions of text quickly.
Jump to the beginning or end of a word
Ctrl + Arrow keys
TAB:
Jump through form fields
Tab
Also works in your browser
Jump through form fields IN REVERSE
Shift + Tab
Also works in your browser
Change tabs in a dialog box
Ctrl + Tab
Tabs like in the Control Panel displays
Change tabs in a dialog box IN REVERSE
Shift + Ctrl + Tab
HOME / END:
Jump to the end of a line
End-key
If you're a programmer, the Home and End keys really make life easier
Jump to the end of a document
Ctrl + End
...You can also use these with Shift-to highlight entire lines
Jump to the beginning of a line
Home key
Jump to the beginning of a document
Ctrl + Home
Editing:
Cut
Ctrl-X
Copy
Ctrl-C
Paste
Ctrl-V
Bold/Italics:
Bold-face a selection
Ctrl-B
Highlight a selection first (pressing it again will undo)
Italicize a selection
Ctrl-I
Highlight a selection first (pressing it again will undo)
Windows
shortcuts
To:
Press:
Comments:
General:
Click
Space
Very useful!
File Edit View...etc
Alt-Letter
Press Alt-and the letter underlined (ie F for file)
Desktop:
Jump between open applications
ALT-TAB
This can be really helpful if something crashes
Explorer:
Open up Windows Explorer
key E
courtesy Alex
Open
RUN menu
key R
courtesy Alex
Find
key F
courtesy Alex
Rename a file
F2
Highlight a file first
Find
F3
I don't use this one...
Refresh a Window (or the desktop)
F5
Help
F1
I don't know how useful this is
Resizes all columns to fit their contents
CTRL-(numpad+)
Thanks to David Carlisle
Manipulate windows:
Close a window
Alt-F4
Pretty useful
Bring up the desktop
key-D
Moves all windows out of your way and gives you access to your
desktop. Handy when some windows won't let you minimize them.
Thanks Brett Hunt
Minimize a window
Alt-space-N
Alt-space brings up the 'system'-menu.
Maximize a window
Alt-space-X
Restore a window
Alt-space-R
Minimize all windows
key-M
Restore all minimized windows
key-Shift-M
Undoes above (is Undoes a word?)
MISC:
Windows key + U
brings up "Utility Manager" WARNING: this thing is wierd,
your computer will speak to you in wierd Krafwerk
sort of way. Use with caution! (thanks to Derek Buranen)
Windows key + Pause(break)
brings up System Settings
bet you didn't know that (thanks to Thomas Bering for this one)
type a URL and press ctrl-enter. For example, to go to "cnn.com",
simply type "cnn" and press ctrl-enter.
If it doesn't work, highlight the address (press ctrl-tab until
the address is highlighted) and try again.
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Windows key + U
To bring up the Task-Manager
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