Top 15 Most Important Windows shortcut keys

Using keyboard shortcuts can help you working faster and keep you focused. For example, saving your document with shortcut Ctrl +S during is much faster than taking your hand from the keyboard and using the mouse, clicking save from the file menu. Below are our top 15 keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone memorize and use.

Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert

Copy the highlighted text or selected item.

Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert

Paste the text or object that's in the clipboard.

Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y

Undo any change in the programs. For example, (Paint, word pad, Photoshop, micro soft office programs, etc)  if you cut text, pressing this will undo it. This can also often be pressed multiple times to undo multiple changes. Pressing Ctrl + Y would redo the undo.

Ctrl + F

Open the Find in any program. This includes your Internet browser to find text on the current page.

Ctrl + Back space and Ctrl + Left or Right arrow

Pressing Ctrl + Backspace will delete a full word at a time instead of a single character.

Holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the left or right arrow will move the cursor one word at a time instead of one character at a time. If you wanted to highlight one word at a time you can hold down Ctrl + Shift and then press the left or right arrow key to move one word at a time in that direction while highlighting each word.

Ctrl + S

While working on a document or other file in almost every program pressing Ctrl + S will save that file. This shortcut key should be used frequently anytime you're working on anything important.

Ctrl + Home or Ctrl + End

Move the cursor to the beginning or end of a document.

Ctrl + P

Print the page being viewed. like document in Microsoft Word, PDF file, photo or the web page in your Internet browser.

Page Up, Space bar, and Page Down

Pressing either the page up or page down key will move that page one page at a time in that direction. When browsing the Internet pressing the space bar will also move the page down one page at a time. If you press Shift and the Space bar the page will go up a page at a time.

Windows key + tap

Switch between open quickly.

Print Screen

With pressing the Print Screen Shot key (PrtScSysRq) You can take a shot of your opens program or any opened page in your computer’s screen.

Tip: For edit your shot you can use paint program of the computer windows, just open the paint and then press Ctrl +V

Ctrl + Alt + Del

Open the Windows option screen for locking computer, switching user, Task Manager, etc. in later versions of Windows.

Alt + Enter

Opens properties window of selected icon or program.

Alt + Tab or Alt + Esc

Quickly switch between open programs moving forward.

For Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 you can also use Windows Key + Tab to switch through open programs in a full screenshot of the Window.

Tip:  Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs in a program.

Shift + Del

Will delete any file or other object without throwing it into the Recycle Bin.

More Keyboard Shortcut for Windows