Keyboard Shortcuts

Everyday seems like we tend to use keyboard for typing especially for those who use computer and laptop everyday. Maybe some of you knew the basic keyboard shortcut keys. In this blog post, I would like to share with you 22 tricks you must try and will save your time doing your job in front of computer or laptop.

Here we go...


opening and closing Microsoft office documents
Ctrl + N  => create a new document
Ctrl + O => open a new document
Ctrl + S = > save a document
F12 => save as


moving text around
Ctrl + A  => select all
Ctrl + X  => cut
Ctrl + C  => copy
Ctrl + V  => paste
Ctrl + A + C + N + V => copy all and paste into a neew doc



jumping through text
Shift + Arrows  => select text where cursor is placed
Ctrl + Home  => move cursor to start of doc
Ctrl + End  => move cursor to end doc


grabbing text
Shift + Home  => select whole line left of cursor
Shift + End  => select whole line right of cursor



fixing a mistake
Ctrl + Z  => undo
Ctrl + Delete  => delete word after cursor
Ctrl + Backspace  => delete word before cursor



using the interwebs
Ctrl + T  => open a new tab
Ctrl + L  => jump to address bar



switching and closing tabs
Alt + Tab  => quickly switch programs
Ctrl + F4  => quickly close window
Windows + D  => quickly return to desktop

** do have fun trying...... (^_^)