KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR EVERY BLOGGER
Bloggers do not need any qualification to start a blog. It helps if you are good with technology. If you are not, don’t worry, you will learn along the way. In fact becoming a blogger has given me the opportunity to learn a lot of useful things. You may be overwhelmed from the beginning and might employ a bit of help along the way. Eventually, you will get hang of it.
The computer has been with us since …………….. and most people can use it these days with ease. There are a lot of Youtube videos that can help if you are interested.
There are much quicker and effective ways of using the computer if you make use of keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts will cut down time spent on a particular article if you are conversant with them.
This article will list some common and not so common Keyboard shortcuts that can help in various ways.
Ctrl + A This will select all contents of the page(Instead of using the mouse to right click and copy use this shortcut instead)
Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection(Easily make texts bold after highlighting them)
Ctrl + C This will copy selected text(self-explanatory)
Ctrl + X This will cut selected text
Ctrl + N Open new/blank document
Ctrl + O Open options
Ctrl + P Open the print window
Ctrl + F Open find the box
Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection
Ctrl + K Insert link
Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection
Ctrl + V This shortcut will paste the link you copied
Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed (This shortcut is very useful and saves lots of time)
Ctrl + Z Undo last action (Made a mistake? Just undo it with this shortcut)
Ctrl + J Justify paragraph alignment
Ctrl + L Align selected text or line to the left
Ctrl + Q Align selected paragraph to the left
Ctrl + E Align selected text or line to the centre
Ctrl + R Align selected text or line to the right
Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph
Ctrl + T Hanging indent
Ctrl + Backspace Delete word to the left of the cursor
Ctrl + End Move cursor to end of the document
Ctrl +Home Move cursor to the beginning of the document
Ctrl + W Close document
These commands will work for Chrome
Ctrl+N Open a new window
Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito mode
Ctrl, +link Open link in a new tab
Shift,+ link Open link in a new window
Alt+F4 Close current window
Ctrl+T Open a new tab
Ctrl+B Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H View the History page
Ctrl+J View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape View the Task manager
Ctrl+P Print your current page
F5 Reload current page
Esc Stop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Alt+ link Download link
Ctrl+F Open find-in-page box
F3 Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Shift+F3 Find the previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+U View source Drag link to bookmarks bar Bookmark the link
Ctrl+D Bookmark your current webpage
Ctrl++ Make text larger
Ctrl+- Make text smaller
Ctrl+0 Return to normal text size
WINKEY + D Bring desktop to the top of other windows
WINKEY + M Minimize all windows
WINKEY + SHIFT + M Undo the minimize done by
WINKEY+ M and WINKEY + D WINKEY + E Open Microsoft Explorer
WINKEY + Tab Cycle through open programs on taskbar
WINKEY + F Display the Windows® Search/Find feature
WINKEY + CTRL + F Display the search for computers window
WINKEY + F1 Display the Microsoft® Windows® help
WINKEY + R Open the run window
WINKEY + Pause /Break Open the system properties window
WINKEY + U Open utility manager
WINKEY + L Lock the computer (Easily lock your computer with this shortcut)