Top Computer Shortcut Keyboard Keys in MS Office and Windows

In everyone’s life, MS Office becoming a major part, mostly in jobs. Even for children, it is essential to know some basic shortcuts to perform tasks that school gave to them. It means everyone children or adults should know how to work on MS Office and also have to know shortcuts to do tasks fast.

At present nearly 90% of the world’s population is computers, so it is necessary to for them to know shortcuts. To make your work easy we have mentioned top computer shortcuts of MS Office and Windows so you do your task easily.

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Computer Shortcut Keys A-Z Basic

When you use MS Office you often perform copy, paste, delete, etc to make tasks easy. However, using the mouse will take more time, so shortcuts are beneficial for completing tasks quickly. Below we have mentioned basic shortcut keys that come in use daily while working on MS Office.

Shortcut Key	Description
Ctrl + A	To select all
Ctrl + B	To bold texts
Ctrl + C	To copy texts
Ctrl + D	To duplicate all selected items
Ctrl + E	To edit options
Ctrl + F	To find a particular word or phrase
Ctrl + G	Go to the specific location
Ctrl + H	Replace with another word(s)
Ctrl + I	To italic word(s)
Ctrl + J	To align the test on both sides left and right
Ctrl + K	To add hyperlinks in the text
Ctrl + L	To add text to the left
Ctrl + M	To minimise the active window
Ctrl + N	To create new documents to work
Ctrl + O	To open an existing document
Ctrl + P	To print opened document
Ctrl + Q	To close the active window
Ctrl + R	To reload the page
Ctrl + S	To save the document
Ctrl + U	To underline selected text
Ctrl + V	To paste the copied text
Ctrl + W	To close the active window
Ctrl + X	To remove and copy selected item or text
Ctrl + Y	To redo the last undone action
Ctrl + Z	To undo the last action

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Computer Shortcut Keys MS Office Shortcut

Microsoft Office is an application software that has become a part of our lives to make work easier in personal and professional ways. MS Office includes much software which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, outlook, etc. Each application in MS Office is designed to solve our tasks like word processing spreadsheet management, or creating a presentation.

Shortcut Key	Description
Ctrl + E	To Center Text
Ctrl + N	For New Document
Ctrl + O	To Open Document
Ctrl + S	To Save Document
Ctrl + p	To Print Document
Ctrl + C	To Copy Text
Ctrl + X	To Cut Text or Item
Ctrl + V	To Paste Copied Text or Item
Ctrl + Z	To Undo
Ctrl + Y	To Redo
Ctrl + A	To Select all
Ctrl + F	To Find Particular Text
Ctrl + H	To Replace
Ctrl + B	To Bold Text
Ctrl + I	To Italic Text
Ctrl + U	To Underline Text
Ctrl + P	To Open the print dialog
Ctrl + F2	To See the Print preview

Computer Shortcut Keys MS Word

There are some more shortcuts apart from those mentioned above in MS Word which are mentioned below.

Shortcut Key	Description
Ctrl + F3	To Copy selected intel into the Spike
Ctrl + F4	To Close the active document
Ctrl + F5	Restore the document window size
Ctrl + F6	Switch between open documents
Ctrl + F7	Activate the Spelling and Grammar check
Ctrl + F8	Extend a selection
Ctrl + F9	Insert an empty field
Ctrl + F10	Maximize the document window
Ctrl + F11	Lock a field
Ctrl + F12	Open the “Save As” dialog box

Computer Shortcut Keys MS Excel

Excel is important for many who always do tasks like business, finance, etc. To make your work a little easier we have mentioned some of the important shortcut keys.

Shortcut Key	Description
Ctrl + Arrow keys	Move the cursor to the edge of the row or column
Ctrl + Space	Use to select an entire column
Ctrl + Shift + “+”	Use to select an entire row
Ctrl + “-“	Use to insert new worksheet
Ctrl + Shift + “$”	Delete the particular selected cells
Ctrl + Shift + “%”	Used to apply a currency format
Ctrl + Shift + “#”	Used to apply percentage format
Ctrl + E, S, V	Used to apply date format
Ctrl + D	Without copying or cutting paste the above cell text
Ctrl + R	To paste the left cell without copying or cutting

Computer Shortcut Keys PowerPoint

Powerpoint is an application that is used to create presentations to teach students, present business ideas, etc. Here we have mentioned some of the shortcuts to help you.

Shortcut Key	Description
Ctrl + Enter	Used to insert a new slide
Ctrl + M	To insert a new slide in the sorter view
F5	To start the presentation to show in full-screen
Ctrl + F5	Display the presentation from a particular or current slide
Alt + Shift + Left Arrow	To promote a paragraph
Alt + Shift + Right Arrow	To demote a paragraph
Ctrl + D	To duplicate the selected slide below
Ctrl + E	To align text in the centre

Computer Shortcut Keys other than MS Office

Some of the other shortcut keys are apart from MS Office that are used in day-to-day life. Some we have mentioned below.

Shortcut keys	Description
Alt + F4	To shut down the computer or
Win + R	To operate the run terminal
Win + Tab	Switch to another desktop
Ctrl + Shift + C	To copy the path of the chosen file or folder
Alt + Enter	To see the property of the file or folder

General Windows Shortcut Keys

Some of the shortcut keys that are used in general Windows are mentioned below.

Shortcut keys	Description
Ctrl + C	Copy
Ctrl + x	Cut
Ctrl + V	Paste
Ctrl + Z	Undo
Ctrl + Y	Redo
Ctrl + A	Select all
Ctrl + F	Find
Ctrl + P	Print
F2	Rename file or folder
F5	Refresh

File Explorer Shortcut Keys

Shortcut keys	Description
Ctrl + Shift + N	To create new a folder
Win + E	To open File Explorer
Alt + Enter	Oper property dialog box

Web Browsing Shortcut Keys (in most browsers)

Shortcut keys	Description
Ctrl + T	To open a new tab
Ctrl + W	To close the current tab
Ctrl + Shift + T	To reopen the closed tab
Ctrl + Tab	Switch to the next tab
Ctrl + Shift + Tab	Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl + N	To open new new browser tab separately
Ctrl + D	Used bookmark the current page in web browser

System Shortcut Keys

Shortcut keys	Description
Ctrl + Alt + Del	To open the Task Manager dialog box
Win + L	To lock the screen
Win + R	To open a run dialog box

Multimedia Shortcut Keys

Shortcut keys	Description
Spacebar	To play or pause media in the Media player
Left or right Arrow	To skip media in backwards or forward
Up or down arrow	Increase or decrease sound
Ctrl + Shift + Esc	To open Task manager directly

Dialog Box Shortcut Keys

Shortcut keys	Description
Shift + Tab	Move to the previous control in the opened dialog box
Tab	Jump to the next control in the opened dialog box
Enter	To activate the selected button

Screen Capture Shortcut Keys

Shortcut keys	Description
Prt sc	To capture the whole screen
Alt + prt sc	Capture the whole active screen