| CTRL+ESC |
displays the Start
menu
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| ALT+ SPACEBAR |
opens control menu
(like clicking on the symbol in the top left corner of a
window, from which you select (perhaps using mouse, perhaps
using arrow keys and enter) among restore, minimise, maximise,
close, etc)
|
| ALT+F4 |
shuts down the
selected program, window or dialogue box.
|
| CTRL+F4 |
shuts down the
selected document/file.
|
SHIFT+F10 |
like right click
of mouse, brings up context menu.
|
| ALT+DOWN ARROW |
opens a "Drop down
list." It's like clicking those little arrows alongside fields
in which you make a choice, for instance in the Look in field
of an Open dialogue box.
|
| ANY ARROW KEY |
removes
highlighting; that is, undoes a selection
|
| Hitting a letter key |
will take you to
the first item in an Open or Save dialogue box that begins
with that letter. I.E., the Open dialogue box, hit w one or
more times to go to the "Windows" folder in the list of stuff
that appears on the C drive. This can save a whole lot of hand
action.
|
| CTRL+ALT+DEL |
Brings up the
Windows Security box. From here you can lock the PC you are
using which can only be unlocked by either yourself or a
member of the Computer Centre staff.
|
| CTRL+Z or ALT+BACKSPACE
|
undo. Undoes the
previous editing action, if the application
allows.
|
| CTRL+Y |
redo. In some
applications (Excel, for example), this combination repeats
the last action.
|
| CTRL+A |
select
all.
|
| CTRL+X |
cut. Removes your
selected block from your document (or selected icon) and puts
it on the Windows Clipboard.
|
| CTRL+C |
copy. Puts a copy
of the block on the Clipboard.
|
| CTRL+V |
paste.
|
| CTRL+P |
Use this to
print.
|
| CTRL+S |
save.
|
| CTRL+N |
new
document.
|
| CTRL+O |
open. Brings forth
the open file dialogue box.
|
| CTRL+B |
toggle bold off
and on with this; this will apply (or remove) bolding to
either selected items or to the text that's input
next.
|
| CTRL+I |
toggle italic with
this.
|
| CTRL+U |
toggles
underlining.
|
| F1 |
Help.
|
| F2 |
Rename, or edit.
Hit F2, with an icon selected, will let you rename the icon.
In Excel or Access, F2 takes you from having the entire field
or cell selected to an editing position within the field. Do
this and you don't have to click
|
| F3 |
Find. Outside an
application, will open "Find files or folders." Within an
application, performs a Find Next
function.
|
| F4 |
Opens a drop-down
list.
|
| F5 |
Refresh, or
reload.
|
| F6 |
move to opposite
pane.
|
| F10 |
Toggles
you from the text area to the menu area. From there, arrow
keys will move you among menus. Other F keys are used for
specific purposes within
applications. |
