How to Increase your Productivity and Speed of Browsing with Keyboard Shortcuts?

This article will show you how to use Keyboard Shortcuts to increase your productivity and speed of browsing. You will be surprised by the usefulness of some of these keyboard shortcuts. You may already know some of them. You may find it difficult to remember all, but if you will continue to use them, it will soon become very natural. And you will be far more productive than before.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. This is the most useful one. To Open Windows Explorer,
   
   Press WINDOWS + E.
   
   (Some of the keyboards do not have Windows button)

2. To open System Properties or "View basic information about your computer",
   
   press Windows + Pause/Break.
   
   (Try it out, it is really useful, Pause/Break button should be on the Top right side of keyboard near Scroll Lock button.)

3. Online forms are very common these days. 'TAB' button moves cursor from one box to the next. SHIFT+TAB moves cursors to previous box. This is quite useful shortcut while filling forms, as many forms have 'Email address' and 'Re-type Email address' box. You can fill first form, press TAB, now press SHIFT+TAB, Press CTRL+C, press TAB, and Press CTRL+V. (No need to say, CTRL+C for Copy and CTRL+V for Paste) Again try it out, and you will be amazed at what can you accomplish with this shortcuts.

4. When you delete any document, it goes to recycle bin. If you don't want it to go to recycle bin,
   
   press SHIFT+DELETE.
   
   It will delete it permanently. (Use this with some caution, because you can not retrieve deleted item from recycle bin)

5. To open Start Menu,
   
   press WINDOWS or CTRL+ESC.

6. To open Windows Search tool,
   
   press WINDOWS+F.
   
   To search within the document or webpage,
   
   press CTRL+F.

7. To save any document,
   
   press CTRL+S.

8. To select all text,
   
   press CTRL+A.

9. Other shortcuts:
   
   F1 - Windows Help
   CTRL+X - Cut
   CTRL+V - Paste
   ALT+F4: Quit program
   CTRL+Z: Undo

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[Hapworth]

on 7/1/2008 Good short cuts. I always use Control C and Control V