Top 10 Keyboard Shortcuts Everyone Should Know

Keyboard shortcuts can help you stay focused while increasing your productivity and reducing repetitive strain.For example, to copy text, select the text to be copied and press the Ctrl+C shortcut.Then click where you want to paste the copied text and paste it with the Ctrl+V key combination.

Using the computer with these and similar hot keys provides you with great efficiency in your daily work.You can complete all the operations you will do on the device much faster.

Here are the shortcut keys that will provide you great convenience while doing daily work on your computer;

Top Keyboard Shortcuts 

10. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Insert, and Ctrl+X

Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Insert copies the highlighted text or selected item, respectively.Ctrl+X performs "cut" an object instead of copying it.This action moves the text or object with its source instead of copying it to the clipboard.

On Apple devices, the Ctrl key can be used instead of the Command key.For example , pressing Command+C copies the highlighted text.

9. Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert

Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert paste the text or object from the clipboard respectively.Command+V keys must be used on Apple products .

8. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y

Any update made can be undone with the Ctrl+Z key combination.For example, if you cut text, using this key combination will undo the cut.Various presses of these shortcuts can be used to undo or redo multiple changes. Pressing Ctrl+Y will redo the next update you make.

To put it better, if you copy a text to another place and use the Ctrl+Z key combination, you will undo the copying process. If you use the Ctrl+Y key combination afterwards, you will copy the text again.

You can use Command+Z and Command+Y keys to go back or forward on Apple products .

7. Ctrl+F and Ctrl+G

Ctrl+F allows to run the search engine within the window.For example, if you use this key combination in a file such as Word, you will run the word finder search engine.

Similarly, if you use these keys in the Windows folder, you will run the search engine that provides file finder.
Press Command+F to find something on Apple products .

Ctrl+G can be used to repeat the search in a document or a web page started with Ctrl+F .

6. Alt+Tab or Ctrl+Tab

The Alt+Tab key combination allows you to switch between applications open on your device.For example, if you are playing a game and want to access the internet browser software that is open in the background, you should use this key combination.

On an Apple computer, use the Command (Cmd) key instead of the Alt key.For example, use Command+Tab to switch between open applications.

5. Ctrl+Tab

Use Ctrl+Tab to switch between tabs in a program.For example, if you have several tabs open in your Internet browser, press Ctrl+Tab to switch between them .

Alt+Tab or Ctrl+Tab Add the Shift key to Alt+Tab or Ctrl +Tab togo back.For example, if you press Alt+Tab and accidentally move away from the program you want to use, press Alt+Shift+Tab to return .

4. Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Left or Right Key

Using Ctrl+Space instead of deleting a single character deletes the whole word.When you hold down the Ctrl key and press the left or right arrow, the cursor advances one word at a time, rather than one letter at a time.To highlight one word at a time , hold down the Ctrl+Shift keys and then press the left or right arrow key.Your highlighted option moves forward one word at a time in this direction.

3. Ctrl+S

Pressing Ctrl+S while working on almost any program saves a document or other file.Use this hotkey regularly when working on something important, an error, a power outage, or any situation that has caused you to lose work since the last save.

Press Command+S to save files on Apple products .

2. Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End

Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End move the pointer to the beginning and end of the document, respectively.Most documents and websites are compatible with these shortcuts.

To navigate to the beginning or end of a document or text on Apple devices, press Command+Up arrow or Command+Down arrow.

1. Ctrl+P

Ctrl+P opens a print preview of the current page or the document being read.

You must use Command+P to open print preview in Apple .

Page Up, Space, and Page Down Key

As you can imagine, using the Pg Up or Pg Dn keys advances to the next or previous page, respectively.The spacebar moves the scrollbar down one page while on the Internet.Shift+Spacebar moves the scroll bar up one page.