Here are some keyboard short-cuts that will help speed your computing.

 

Ctrl-Shift-A = Upper or lower case copy quickly.  Highlight the words you want changed and then hit your Control key with the Shift button and A.

 

Windows key-M = You can minimize all windows by hitting the Windows key and M together.

 

Ctrl-Alt-Del = When an application has frozen use the Control/Alt/Delete shortcut which will take you to the Task Manager where you can shut down the application causing the problem.

 

Ctrl-Z = Undo last action

 

Ctrl C = Copy

 

Ctrl X = Cut

 

Ctrl V = Paste

 

Ctrl B = Bold

 

Ctrl I = Italicize

 

Ctrl U = Underline

 

Ctrl ESC = Open Start Menu, use the arrow keys to select an item

 

F1 = Help

 

F2 = Rename an item

 

F3 Open Find All Files dialog

 

Alt F4 = Close the current window, or quit current program

 

Shift F4 = Automatically repeats the previous Find command in Word

 

F5 = Refresh screen

 

Alt F6 Switch between multiple windows in the same program

 

F10 = Activate the menu bar in a program

 

Shift-Del = Delete items permanently

 

Ctrl F1 = Hide or minimize the Ribbon

 

Ctrl L = Align a paragraph left

 

Ctrl E Align a paragraph center

 

Ctrl R = Align a paragraph right

 

Ctrl 0 (zero) = Add/remove space before a paragraph

 

Ctrl 2 = Apply double line spacing

 

Ctrl 1 = Apply single line spacing

 

Ctrl Shift N = Apply Normal style

 

Alt Shift 1 = Apply Heading 1 style

 

Alt Shift 2 = Apply Heading 2 style

 

Alt Shift 3 = Apply Heading 3 style

 

Shift F3 = Change case

 

Ctrl Y = Redo last action

 

Shift F10 = Open shortcut menu

 

F7 = Check spelling

 

Ctrl S = Save document

 

F 12 = Save As

 

Ctrl P = Show Print dialog box

 

Ctrl O = Open

 

Ctrl Shift F = Font dialog box

 

Ctrl F = Find

 

Ctrl H = Replace

 

Ctrl A = Select the entire document

 

Shift F7 = Display Thesaurus

 

Ctrl Shift S = Style Dialog box

 

Ctrl Left Arrow = Move pointer left one word

 

Ctrl Right Arrow = Move pointer right one word