keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity, reduce repetitive strain, and help keep you focused. For example, highlighting text with the keyboard and pressing Ctrl + C is much faster than taking your hand from the keyboard, highlighting the text using the mouse, clicking copy from the file menu, and then putting your hand back in place on the keyboard. Below are our top 10 keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone memorize and use.

Commonly Used windows Shortcuts Keys :-

Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert - Copy the highlighted text or selected item.
Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert - Paste the text or object that's in the clipboard.

Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y - Undo any change. For example, if you cut text, pressing this will undo it. This can also often be pressed multiple times to undo multiple changes. Pressing Ctrl + Y would redo the undo.

Ctrl + F - Open the Find in any program. This includes your Internet browser to find text on the current page.

Alt + Tab or Alt + Esc - Quickly switch between open programs moving forward.

Tip: Press Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs in a program.

Tip: Adding the Shift key to Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab will move backwards. For example, if you are pressing Alt + Tab and pass the program you want to switch to, press Alt + Shift + Tab to move backwards to that program.

Ctrl + Back space and Ctrl + Left or Right arrow - Pressing Ctrl + Backspace will delete a full word at a time instead of a single character.

Holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the left or right arrow will move the cursor one word at a time instead of one character at a time. If you wanted to highlight one word at a time you can hold down Ctrl + Shift and then press the left or right arrow key to move one word at a time in that direction while highlighting each word.

Ctrl + S - While working on a document or other file in almost every program pressing Ctrl + S will save that file. This shortcut key should be used frequently anytime you're working on anything important.

Ctrl + Home or Ctrl + End - Move the cursor to the beginning or end of a document.

Ctrl + P - Print the page being viewed. For example, the document in Microsoft Word or the web page in your Internet browser.
Page Up, Space bar, and Page Down- Pressing either the page up or page down key will move that page one page at a time in that direction. When browsing the Internet pressing the space bar will also move the page down one page at a time. If you press Shift and the Space bar the page will go up a page at a time.

Complete List of Windows Shortcuts Keys :-

CTRL+C ::Copy the selected items.
CTRL+X :: Cut the selected items.
CTRL+V :: Paste the selected items.

CTRL+Z -::- Undo to return previous steps.

SHIFT+DELETE -::- Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin.
CTRL while dragging an item -::- Copy the selected item.
CTRL+SHIFT -::- while dragging an item Create a shortcut to the selected item.

F2 key -::- Rename the selected item.
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW -::- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word.
CTRL+LEFT ARROW -::- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word.

CTRL+DOWN ARROW -::- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph.

CTRL+UP ARROW -::- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph.

CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys -::- Highlight a block of text.

SHIFT with any of the arrow keys -::- Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document.

CTRL+A -::- Select all.

F3 -::- Search for a file or a folder.

ALT+ENTER -::- View the properties for the selected item.

ALT+F4 -::- Close the active item, or quit the active program.

ALT+ENTER -::- Display the properties of the selected object.

ALT+SPACEBAR -::- Open the shortcut menu for the active window.

CTRL+F4 -::- Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously.

ALT+TAB -::- Switch between the open items.

ALT+ESC -::- cycle through items in the order that they had been opened.

F6 -::- Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop.

F4 -::- Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

SHIFT+F10 -::- Display the shortcut menu for the selected item.

ALT+SPACEBAR -::- Display the System menu for the active window.

CTRL+ESC -::- Display the Start menu.

ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name -::- Display the corresponding menu Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu Perform the corresponding command.

F10 -::- Activate the menu bar in the active program.
RIGHT ARROW -::- Open the next menu to the right, or open a sub menu.

LEFT ARROW -::- Open the next menu to the left, or close a sub menu.

F5 -::- Update the active window.

BACKSPACE -::- View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

ESC -::- Cancel the current task.

SHIFT -::- when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing.

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC -::- Open Task Manager.

CTRL+TAB -::- Move forward through the tabs.

CTRL+SHIFT+TAB -::- Move backward through the tabs.

TAB -::- Move forward through the options.

SHIFT+TAB -::- Move backward through the options.

ALT+Underlined letter -::- Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option.

ENTER -::- Perform the command for the active option or button.

SPACE BAR -::- Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box.

Arrow keys -::-Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons.

F1 -::- Display Help.

F4 -::- Display the items in the active list.

BACKSPACE -::- Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box.

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