More Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

It’s Saturday Share, and I’m giving you more keyboard shortcuts to save you time.

Previous shortcut posts were:

Keyboard Shortcuts for Punctuation Marks

Keyboard Shortcuts to Pick Colors.

Today, I’m focusing on Windows Shortcuts to accomplish tasks for which you would normally use a mouse point-click process.

Of course, you already know the common ones like PrtSc, ESC, and arrow keys as well as Control + A to highlight everything in a document, Control + X to cut only a selection you’ve  highlighted, Control + C (or Ctrl + Insert) to copy a selection, and Control + V (or Shift + Insert) to paste something that was cut or copied to another spot.

Did you know you can paste a selection as plain text by using: Ctrl + Shift + V?

There are many shortcuts, but I’m only giving you the ones I find most useful. These are for Windows 10. Hope they’ll help you too. If you’re running Windows 11, scroll to the bottom for a link.

WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Press This Key Combination            To Do This

Ctrl + Z                                   Undo an action

Alt + Tab                                 Switch between open apps

Alt + F4                                  Close active item/exit active app

Windows Logo Key + L          Lock your PC

Windows logo key + D           Toggles Display/Hide desktop

Windows logo key + E           Opens File Explorer

Alt + Esc                                Cycle thru open items in order

Alt + Left arrow                     Go back

Alt + Right arrow                   Go forward

Alt + Page Up                       Move up one screen

Alt + Page Down                   Move down one screen

Ctrl + F4                               Closes active doc when many are open

Ctrl + A                                  Selects all items in a document or window

Ctrl + D (or Delete key)         Deletes selected item and moves it to Recycle Bin

Ctrl + E                                 Opens Search in most applications

Ctrl + R (or F5 key)               Refreshes the active window

Ctrl + Y                                  Redo an action

Ctrl + Right arrow                  Moves cursor to beginning of the next word

Ctrl + Left arrow                    Moves cursor to beginning of previous word

Ctrl + Down arrow                 Moves cursor to beginning of next paragraph

Ctrl + Up arrow                      Moves cursor to beginning of previous paragraph

Ctrl + Shift + arrow key          Selects block of text

Ctrl + Esc                               Opens Start

Ctrl + Shift + Esc                   Opens Task Manager.

Shift + Delete                         Deletes selected item without moving it to Recycle Bin

TAKEAWAY TRUTH

These are just a few of the Windows shortcut keys. If you’d like to explore more shortcuts  or those for Windows 11 (mostly the same as Win10), visit Microsoft Keyboard Shortcuts. 

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