Get Organized: 25 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts – www.pcmag.com
Organization and productivity go hand-in-hand. Learn even a few of these keyboard shortcuts for Windows PCs or Macs to improve your efficiency. (excerpt below)
25 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts—Windows
Note: Single letter keys are shown capitalized, but you do not have to hold Shift unless it’s specified. You also don’t have to type the plus sign; plus sign just means push the keys on either side of it at the same time.
Commonly Used OS-Level Shortcuts
- 1. Alt + Tab (toggle between programs)
- 2. Windows button + M (show desktop, i.e., minimize all windows)
- 3. Windows button + Tab (show all active windows in task bar)
- 4. PrtScn (save screen capture to clipboard; “paste” the image into an image-editing program to make it into a file)
- 5. Windows button (opens applications menu)
Browser Shortcuts
- 6. Ctrl + T (open a new tab)
- 7. Ctrl + Shift + t (reopens the tab you last closed; works multiple times)
- 8. F5 (reload page)
- 9. Backspace (go to previous page; works multiple times)
- 10. Ctrl + Tab (cycle between tabs)
Commonly Used Shortcuts in Most Applications
- 11. Ctrl+ Z (undo last operation)
- 12. Ctrl + Y (redo last operation)
- 13. Crtl + O (open file)
- 14. Crtl + S (save)
- 15. Ctrl + W (close active window or file)
- 16. Crtl + Q (quit application)
Copy-and-Pasters’ Delight
- 17. Ctrl + A (select all in active window; e.g., select all text on page)
- 18. Ctrl + X (cut to clipboard)
- 19. Ctrl + C (copy)
- 20. Ctrl + V (paste)
Find, Select, and Navigate Text
- 21. Ctrl + F (find; helpful if you’re searching for a particular word on a website or document)
- 22. Ctrl + Shift + down arrow (select until end of line)
- 23. Ctrl + Shift + up arrow (select until beginning of line)
- 24. Ctrl + Home (move cursor to top/start of document)
- 25. Ctrl + End (move cursor to bottom/end of document)