Since I was a kid and touched my first computer, the keyboard has been the primary user interface. Today there are a lot of substitutes and add ons but none has taken more of the burned off the keyboard than the mouse.
The problem is that today people have forgotten that using a keyboard combination is a lot of times faster than a combination of mouse clicks.
Here are a list of must know keyboard shortcuts:
Windows
Windows+L – Lock your computer (especially important in the corporate environment)
Windows+D – Show your desktop
Windows+M – Minimize all windows
Windows+E – Launch Windows Explorer
Windows+R – Open the RUN Dialog box (not many people use this box but if you do you probably use it a lot)
Windows+F – Open the Find Files or Folders box
Ctrl-C – Copy selection
Ctrl-V – Paste
Ctrl-X – Cut selection
Ctrl-Z – Undo (sometimes one of the most handy shortcuts ever used!)
Ctrl-A – Select all
Ctrl-B – Bold
Ctrl-U – Underline
Ctrl-I – Italic
Ctrl-ESC – Windows start menu
OSX
Command-C – Copy selection
Command-V – Paste
Command-X – Cut selection
Command-Z – Undo (sometimes one of the most handy shortcuts ever used!)
Command-A – Select all
Command-F – Find
Command-I – Get info
Option-Command-M – Minimize all windows
There are a ton more than these, but you have to know these ones. They are going to be the ones that save you the most mouse movement. If you can’t remember all of them, then remember the Copy, Pate, Cut and Undo.
Geek on!
