ABSTRACT
It is a source of wonderment that many PC users, some who have been working on PCs for extended periods, are still unfamiliar with keyboard shortcuts for operations that they carry out often. Many users continue to implement procedures employing menus or toolbar buttons, when they could be executed much more rapidly and easily by using the keyboard.
Block Page: Ctrl and a. With the cursor anywhere on the page press both keys simultaneously. Once blocked, you can use the copy and paste shortcuts (see below) to transfer the information to another application, or to another document within an application.
Bold: Ctrl and b. Block the text, and press both keys.
Bookmark Page: Ctrl and d. in both Communicator and IE, pressing both simultaneously will bookmark the page.
Copy: Ctrl and c. Block text and then press both keys simultaneously. Use this to copy URLs by placing the cursor in the Location/Address box and then selecting both keys.
Cut (Delete): Ctrl and x. Block the text and then press the two keys simultaneously. While deleting the blocked text, it stores it in memory until the clipboard is subsequently overwritten by a further cut or copy command. Thus, if you want to move a body of text somewhere else in the document, you can block it, use the Ctrl x facility to delete it, place the cursor where you want to paste it, and then use the Ctrl v feature to paste the text to the new position.
Italics: Ctrl and i. Block text and then press both keys simultaneously.
Open History Pages: Ctrl and h. in both Communicator and IE, pressing both simultaneously will open/close the history feature.
Open New Web Page: Ctrl and n. in both Communicator and IE, pressing both simultaneously will open a new browser window with the same Web page loaded in it as the one that was already open.
Paste: Ctrl and v. Place the cursor where you wish the material previously copied to clipboard to be pasted, and simultaneously depress both keys.
Save: Ctrl and s. When you are working on a document, in all Microsoft applications, if you press down Ctrl and then s, the document is saved, if saved before, or this brings up the Save As … dialog box for file name entry completion. This is much quicker than selecting the button, or the option from the File menu, and so much easier, that it is bordering on the foolish not to save your documents every five minutes, given past experience with the freezing of applications and the downing of networks.
