![]() ![]() This lets you scroll down through several days (or more) of application thumbnails. The next step up is WinKey-Tab, which loads the Task View timeline. Most will know about using Alt-Tab to cycle through running applications. (The alternative is to right-click on the Windows logo in the bottom left.) One of the most useful is WinKey-X, which provides instant access to some of the geekier utilities such as power options, disk management, Task Manager and shut down. Microsoft added a Windows logo key to the keyboard layout, and this is used in a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10. The Windows Key is your friend for window management. In Microsoft Office and many other programs, Ctrl-I makes things italic, Ctrl-B makes them bold, and Ctrl-U underlines them. The options can include unformatted text, or text in RTF, HTML or Unicode formats. This pops up a box that lets you choose how you want to paste in the contents of the clipboard. One of the most useful variants in Microsoft Office is Ctrl-Alt-V, which is a “smart paste” command. (Think of the V as an upside-down insert mark.)Ĭtrl-A (for All) selects everything while Ctrl-X cuts or deletes whatever you selected. You can copy anything from a punctuation mark to a whole drive with Ctrl-C for copy, and then Ctrl-V for paste. The best known keyboard shortcuts select, copy, cut and paste data. In other words, Cmd-Z is undo while Shift-Cmd-Z is used to undo an undo. ![]() Apple, more logically, uses the Shift key. In Microsoft Office, it will redo the previous command, if it wasn’t undo. Less useful is Ctrl-Y, which is generally known as redo. (Of course, it won’t work if you used Shift-Delete to delete files, but Windows already warned you about that.) If you accidentally deleted a bunch of files, Ctrl-Z will restore them from the bin. If you accidentally deleted a paragraph in a document, Ctrl-Z will undo that command and restore it. It doesn’t always work, but it works often enough to be worth a try. Ctrl-ZĮverybody makes mistakes, so everybody should know the Ctrl-Z or “undo” command. The Mac does have a Control key but it was used to provide a right mouse-click in the days of one-button Apple mice.įor the record, the Windows shortcut for a right mouse-click is Shift-F10, but you’ll probably never use it. On Macs, the Command (Cmd) key generally does the same job as the Control key in Windows, so the equivalent shortcut is Cmd-S. Hitting Ctrl-S takes a fraction of a second. It takes time to move a mouse pointer to the File menu, click it, then select Save. The idea of losing an hour or even a day’s work is ridiculous. Do that and you should never lose more than a paragraph or two even if there’s a power glitch. It should be a reflex action to hit Ctrl-S whenever you pause when creating a document. The most useful example is Ctrl-S, which is the Save command. Many are now part of my “motor memory” so I don’t even have to think about them. I started computing before mice were widely available, making keyboard shortcuts essential. ![]()
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