Shortcut keys save your precious time and energy by omitting the unnecessary steps involved in windows operations. Here is a list of some most common keyboard shortcuts for windows that you must know.
Using shortcut keys greatly enhances the working speed and the ease of performing different tasks in an operating system. It may be sometimes be very time consuming to perform repetitive tasks such as copy, paste, switch windows, search and so on. Microsoft windows has many useful shortcut keys that solve this problem for you. Some of them are worth being memorized and of course, all are there to give you a great user friendly interface. Let us have a look at some of the common keyboard shortcut keys for windows.
List of Shortcut keys for every day use
Shortcut Key
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Description
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Windows
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Open the windows start menu
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Ctrl+Home
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Move to the start of a document
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Ctrl+End
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Go to the end of the document
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Pg Up
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Move one page up in a document
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Pg dn
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Move one page below in a document
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Ctrl+F
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Find a particular word or phrase in a window
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Ctrl+P
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Print the open document or the page
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Ctrl+C
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Copy the selected text or image
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Ctrl+V
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Paste the copied or cut item
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Ctrl+X
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Cut the selected item
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Ctrl+Z
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Undo the previous operation
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Ctrl+Y
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Redo the undone operation
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Ctrl+A
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Select the whole contents of a window or a document
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Home
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Moves the cursor to the start of a line
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End
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Moves the cursor to the end of a line
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F1
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Opens help in almost every program
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Windows+F1
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Opens Microsoft help and support
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Ctrl+insert
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Copy the selected text or image
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Shift+insert
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Paste the copied or cut item
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F2
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To rename any item including documents
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Shift+del
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Permanently deleting a selected item
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Ctrl+S
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Save the current document
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Alt+F4
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Close the current window
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Alt+F
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Open file menu options in current document
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Shift+Home
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Highlight the content from current position to the start of document
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Shift+End
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Highlight the content from current position to the end of document
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Ctrl+left arrow
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Move one word left at a time
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Ctrl+right arrow
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Move one word right at a time
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Ctrl+backspace
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Delete one word at a time
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Ctrl+tab
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Switch between tabs in a window rightways
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Crrl+Shift+tab
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Switch between tabs in a window leftways
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Alt+tab
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Switch between windows in windows 7 or vista
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F5
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Refreshes the windows
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Shortcut keys are a means to protect your time from extra operations that result in extra effort when done with the help of mouse. There are many more keys that can considerably aid you in faster use of windows if you know and apply them. However, the above given list just comprises of some basic keyboard shortcuts that should not be forgotten if you really want to enjoy working on the windows. To learn more keyboard shortcuts in windows go to the page, “Advanced use of keyboard shortcuts in windows”.
