KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR SPEEDY TYPISTS

Part-1

Do you want to speed up your typing and save energy? And your scrolling through any screen?

Keep your hands over the keyboard.

Instead of frequently taking your right hand off the keyboard to pick up the mouse, move it across the screen to click somewhere then put the mouse down and return your hand to the keyboard try these Keyboard Shortcuts to save time and energy. Learn a few at a time.

Scrolling using the Arrow Keys instead of the mouse on the Scroll bar. In any screen (like in Help or many Web pages) with more than one ruled off section or list it is necessary to first click in the section you want to make the active window section before you scroll with the arrow keys.

This also applies in E-mail – click to choose the message titles, folders or message box.

The Arrow keys take the active cursor with them

Although some Keyboard Shortcuts work in many programs, others only work in some, and some have different combinations for their shortcuts.

Long lists of Keyboard Shortcuts and the Function for each of these keys can be found in the Help menu of Word documents and can be printed out. Here I will present the more useful ones in related groups.

In Windows XP, look under Start, Help and Support, What’s new in XP?, Keyboard Shortcuts and you will find full lists.

Here are a few handy Shortcuts to start with.

CLOSE A PROGRAM using Alt+F4

CLOSE A WORD DOCUMENT WITH Ctrl+W

CLOSE MOST DIALOGUE BOXES WITH ESC

PRINT PREVIEW – OPEN WITH Ctrl+F2 ---- CLOSE WITH ESC