It's Saturday Share, and I'm giving you more keyboard shortcuts to save you time.
Previous shortcut posts were:
Keyboard Shortcuts for Punctuation Marks
Keyboard Shortcuts to Pick Colors.
Today, I'm focusing on Windows Shortcuts to accomplish tasks for which you would normally use a mouse point-click process.
Of course, you already know the common ones like PrtSc, ESC, and arrow keys as well as Control + A to highlight everything in a document, Control + X to cut only a selection you've highlighted, Control + C (or Ctrl + Insert) to copy a selection, and Control + V (or Shift + Insert) to paste something that was cut or copied to another spot.
Did you know you can paste a selection as plain text by using: Ctrl + Shift + V?
There are many shortcuts, but I'm only giving you the ones I find most useful. These are for Windows 10. Hope they'll help you too. If you're running Windows 11, scroll to the bottom for a link.
WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Press This Key Combination To Do This
Ctrl + Z Undo an action
Alt + Tab Switch between open apps
Alt + F4 Close active item/exit active app
Windows Logo Key + L Lock your PC
Windows logo key + D Toggles Display/Hide desktop
Windows logo key + E Opens File Explorer
Alt + Esc Cycle thru open items in orderAlt + Left arrow Go back
Alt + Right arrow Go forward
Alt + Page Up Move up one screen
Alt + Page Down Move down one screen
Ctrl + F4 Closes active doc when many are open
Ctrl + A Selects all items in a document or window
Ctrl + D (or Delete key) Deletes selected item and moves it to Recycle Bin
Ctrl + E Opens Search in most applications
Ctrl + R (or F5 key) Refreshes the active window
Ctrl + Right arrow Moves cursor to beginning of the next word
Ctrl + Left arrow Moves cursor to beginning of previous word
Ctrl + Down arrow Moves cursor to beginning of next paragraph
Ctrl + Up arrow Moves cursor to beginning of previous paragraph
Ctrl + Shift + arrow key Selects block of text
Ctrl + Esc Opens Start
Ctrl + Shift + Esc Opens Task Manager.
Shift + Delete Deletes selected item without moving it to Recycle Bin
TAKEAWAY TRUTH
These are just a few of the Windows shortcut keys. If you'd like to explore more shortcuts or those for Windows 11 (mostly the same as Win10), visit Microsoft Keyboard Shortcuts.