Tips: Keyboard shortcuts
.Wrists feeling tired and achy? Using the mouse or touch pad too much? Is carpal tunnel syndrome becoming a "sure thing?"
Save yourself from a lifetime of pain and misery by learning the keyboard shortcuts built into Microsoft® Windows® and MacOS®. (Shortcuts for MacOsX users)
Below is a list of common keyboard short cuts for Windows. Use them instead of your mouse for a few days and they will soon become a natural way to work. I guarantee that your wrists will thank you. And you'll work much faster and more efficiently, as well.
| About keyboard shortcuts |
For a full list of all keyboard shortcuts for each Office program, please refer
to each program's Help topics. There are three ways of using
shortcuts:
A menu
will show the specific shortcut on the right hand side. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The menu bar |
Switch the focus to the menu bar by pressing ALT. ALT+
the underlined letter in the menu name will open that menu. For example, ALT+F
opens the File menu. When a menu is open, select
a command by pressing the underlined letter in that command name. From
the menu bar or toolbars, pressing ALT will return the focus to the insertion
point in the document. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The toolbars | Move the focus
to the toolbars by pressing ALT to focus on the menu bar, and then press
CTRL+TAB to move the focus from toolbar to toolbar. Move
along the toolbars by using TAB or the arrow keys. When
the focus is on the button you require, press ENTER to select it. View
the toolbar menu from the View menu on the menu bar, or put the focus on
the menu bar by pressing ALT and then pressing SHIFT+F10. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keystrokes
to move the insertion point around text, or select text |
Press SHIFT+ any of the following keystrokes to select text:
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| Common shortcuts |
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| Source: http://office.microsoft.com/training/Training.aspx?AssetID=RP060785491033&CTT=6&Origin=RC060786531033 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tips
Microsoft Word
Auto-Correction
Comments in Word
Comparing documents
Copying
multiple items to the clipboard
Cropping
pictures
Customizing
your toolbars
Outlines
Picture
bullets
Reviewing documents
Table of contents
Zooming
to magnify your text
Adobe Acrobat
Downloading
an entire Web site to a single PDF file
General
Customizing
your toolbars
Free
Conference Call
Google
SMS
Keyboard
shortcuts
Signing
your documents electronically
Print
just that selection of a Web page
Swipe
Files
User manual
for your business
Outside the cubicle walls
Give
the gift of giving
Environmentally-friendly
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