General shortcuts

Action Toggle among installed keyboard Shift+Alt languages Undo the last operation Redo the last operation Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Y Windows

Cut the selected area and store it Ctrl+X, or Shift+Del in the clipboard Paste contents of clipboardat cursor Copy the selected area into the clipboard Paste special Select everything in focused control or window View menu File menu Edit menu Ctrl+V, or Shift+Ins Ctrl+C, orCtrl+Ins Ctrl+Alt+V Ctrl+A Alt+V Alt+F Alt+E

Navigation
Action Windows Win, enter executable name or Win+R, enter executable name

Run new application

Open new browser window with Ctrl+N (for both explorer.exe and same page as current iexplore.exe) Make new folder Ctrl+ Shift+N Win or Ctrl+Esc Win+L Win+D or Show desktop Log out user Switch active user Task manager Rename object Open file or program Win+L Ctrl+ Shift+Esc, Ctrl+Alt+Delete F2 Enter
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Applications menu

Lock desktop

Win+M (then use Win+ Shift+M to bring back all windows)

Action Switch to next/previous focused window Alt+Tab /

Windows

Shift+Alt+Tab

Switch focus to the Alt+Esc / next/previous window (without Shift+Alt+Esc dialog) Open the Run dialog box Open the Search dialog box Win+R Win, enter executable name or Win+F

Power management
Action Windows Sleep (available on some keyboards, configurable in Control Panel-->Power Options-->Advanced tab dialog box) Win+R type shutdown -s -t time in seconds Win+R type shutdown -r -t time in seconds

Place computer into sleep/standby mode

Shutdown computer Restart computer Place display in sleep mode

Bring up power/sleep dialog box Alt+F4 (while on Desktop only)

Screenshots

Action Save screenshot of entire screen Print Screen as file

Windows

Copy screenshot of entire screen Print Screen or Ctrl+Print Screen to clipboard Save screenshot of window as file Copy screenshot of window to clipboard Copy screenshot of arbitrary area to clipboard Save screenshot of arbitrary area as file Screencasting

Alt+Print Screen

Text editing

Action

Windows

Delete char to the right of cursor Del or Fn+ Backspace |Del Delete word to the right of cursor

Ctrl+Del

Delete word to the left of cursor Ctrl+ Backspace Go to start of line Go to end of line Go to start of document Go to end of document Go to previous word Go to next word Go to previous line Go to next line Home, or Template:Key press/Fn End, or Template:Key press/Fn Ctrl + Home Ctrl + End Ctrl+ Ctrl+
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Action Go to previous line break (paragraph) Go to next line break Go to find Go to next search result Go to previous search result Search and replace Search a regular expression Search and replace a regular expression

Windows

Ctrl+

Ctrl+ Ctrl+F F3 Shift+F3 Ctrl+H

Text formatting

Action Make selected text bold/regular Ctrl+B Toggle underlining of selected text

Windows

Ctrl+U

Make selected text italic/regular Ctrl+I Shift+F3 (Works for Microsoft Word and Powerpoint but not Microsoft Excel)[citation
needed]

Change to upper/lower case

Make selected text superscript Make selected text subscript Make selected text larger/smaller

Ctrl+ Shift++ Ctrl+= Ctrl+ Shift+>/Ctrl+ Shift+<, Ctrl+[/Ctrl+]

Browsers / Go menu
Action Alt+D or Alt+C according language Go to the previous location in history Go to the next location in history Alt+ or Backspace Alt+ or Shift+ Backspace (web browser only) Windows

Go to Browser's Address Bar

Go up one level in the navigation Alt+(Vista and 7 only) or hierarchy Backspace(Windows Explorer) Go to the starting page defined by the user or application Alt+Home

Web browsers

Action Bookmarks menu URL Shortcuts (Adds www. + .com) URL Shortcuts (Adds www. + .org) URL Shortcuts (Adds www. + .net) Add bookmark for current page Add bookmark for current link Manage bookmarks Focus and select address bar Refresh a webpage Open a new window Zoom Options (zoom in +, zoom out -, zoom 100%) Ctrl+B Focus and select Web search bar Ctrl+E Ctrl+B Ctrl+ Enter

Windows

Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter Shift + Enter Ctrl+D

Ctrl+L or F6 or Alt+D F5 or Ctrl+R Ctrl+N Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- and Ctrl+0

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Tab management

Action Create a new tab Close current tab Close all tabs but the current one Go to next tab Go to previous tab Go to tab-n Open a previously closed tab Ctrl+Tab Ctrl+T Ctrl+W

Windows

Ctrl+ Shift+Tab Ctrl+n(Chrome/Firefox) Ctrl+ Shift+T

Open a previously closed window Ctrl+ Shift+N(Firefox)

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Window management

Action Pop up window menu Alt+Space

Windows

Close the focused window

Shift+Alt+F4 or Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W orAlt+Spa ce then C[20]

Restore the focused window to its previous size

Alt+Space then R

Move the focused window Resize the focused window Hide the focused window Hide all except the focused window Minimize the focused window Maximize the focused window Maximize horizontally Maximize vertically

Alt+Space then M then Arrow

Keys and Enter(to save location) Alt+Space then S then Arrow Keys

Alt+Space then N, or Win+ (Windows 7 and Vista Home Premium) Alt+Space then X, or Win+ (Windows 7 only) Win+ Shift+ (Windows 7 only)

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Action Minimize all Minimize all non focused windows Undo minimize all Switch fullscreen/normal size Show the window in full screen mode, with no border, menubar, toolbar or statusbar Rollup/down window Show all open windows Show all windows of current application Show all workspaces Move window to left/right/up/down workspace Win+Tab

Windows Win+M or Win+D Win+Home (Windows 7 only) Shift+ Win+M F11

Win+/ (Windows 7 only)

Move window between multiple Win+ Shift+/ (Windows 7 only) monitors Move window to workspace n Switch to next/previous workspace list Go to workspace n Go to left/right/up/down workspace Show / hide desktop Win+D
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Action Activate window demanding attention Quit application of current window Close dialog Open/Focus (preview) pinned program on the taskbar

Windows

Alt+F4 or Ctrl+F4 varies Esc Win+(#) where "#" is the position of the program on the Windows 7 Taskbar (Windows 7 only)

Win+(#) where "#" is the position of the Open new program window of pinned program in Quick Launch program on the Quick Launch toolbar (Windows Vista and 7) Open new program window of the pinned program on the taskbar (if program is already opened) Win+ Shift+(#) where "#" is the position of the program on the Windows 7 Taskbar (Windows 7 only)

Win+T, you can back and forth. Focus the first taskbar entry. Pressing again will cycle through Hold Shift to cycle backwards (Windows 7 them only) Peek at the desktop Win+Space (Windows 7 only)

Bring gadgets to the front of the Win+G (Windows Vista,7) Z-order and cycle between or Win+Space(Vista only, no cycling) gadgets External display options (mirror, Win+P (Windows 7 only) extend desktop, etc.)

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User interface navigation (widgets and controls)

Action Moves keyboard focus to next/previous control Pop up tooltip for currently focused control Show context-sensitive help for currently focused window or control Give focus to splitter bar in paned window Give focus to window's menu bar F10 or Alt Pop up contextual menu for currently selected objects (aka context menu)

Windows Tab / Shift+Tab Shift+F1 Shift+F1

Give focus to next/previous pane Ctrl+F6 /Alt+F6

Shift+F10or Menu

Toggle selected state of focused checkbox, radio button, or toggle Space button Activate focused button, menu item etc. Select/move to first/last item in selected widget Scroll selected view by one page up/left/down/right Scroll selected view to
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Enter

Action top/bottom Switch focus to the next/previous tab within a window Switch focus to the next/previous panel on the desktop Switch focus to the next/previous panel (without dialog) Ctrl+Tab

Windows

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Command line shortcuts

Action

Microsoft Windows (cmd.exe)

Scroll through History of typed commands Signal end-of-file Abort current command/typing Erase word to the left Erase word to the right Erase line to the left Erase line to the right Yank/paste previously erased string Move one word to the left (backward)

Ctrl+Z Ctrl+C Ctrl+ Backspace Ctrl+Delete Ctrl+Home Ctrl+End

Ctrl+

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Move one word to the right (forward) Move to beginning of line Move to end of line Reverse search of history Stop execution of the current job Insert the next character typed verbatim Autocomplete command/file name Paste contents of clipboard at cursor Scroll window up Scroll window down

Ctrl+

Home End F8

Tab (enabled by default in Windows XP and later)

Shift+PageUp (may not work in some versions of Windows XP) Shift+PageDown (may not work in some versions of Windows XP)

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Accessibility

Action Utility Manager Use keyboard to control cursor Win+U

Windows

(Left Alt+Left Shift+Numlock

Allow user to press shortcuts one ( Shift 5 times) key at a time Hear beep when -lock key pressed Stop/slow repeating characters when key is pressed Inverse (Reverse Colors) Mode

(Numlock for 5 seconds)

(Right Shift for 8 seconds) Left Alt+Left Shift+PrtScn

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