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Shortcut Keys of Computer A To Z

Shortcut Keys of Computer Table of Contents oShortcut keys ABC oSpecial Characters oKeyboard Shortcuts on Mac oGeneral Linux Shortcuts

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Shortcut Keys of Computer

Table of Contents

o Shortcut keys ABC
o Special Characters
o Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac
o General Linux Shortcuts

Shortcut keys ABC

These are the following basic windows key shortcuts that help you to complete your
work faster and easier. 

S.No. Keyboard shortcut Action


1 CTRL+A Open File Explorer.
2 CTRL+B Bold
3 Ctrl + C Copy selected items
4 CTRL+D Duplicate
5 CTRL+E Align Centre
6 Ctrl + F Find
7 CTRL+G Go To
8 CTRL+H Find & Replace
9 CTRL+I Italic
10 CTRL+K Insert Hyperlink
11 Ctrl + L Align Left
12 CTRL+M Increase Indent
13 CTRL+N New document
14 CTRL+O Open
15 CTRL+P Print
16 CTRL+R Align right
17 Ctrl + W Close active window.
18 CTRL+S Save
19 CTRL+U Underline
20 CTRL+V Paste
21 CTRL+W Close active window.
22 CTRL+X Cut
23 CTRL+Y Repeat Action
24 CTRL+Z Undo
25 Alt+F File menu options in current program.
S.No. Keyboard shortcut Action
26 Alt+E Open Edit options in the current program.
27 Alt+Tab Switch between open programs.
28 Shift+Del Cut selected items.
29 Ctrl+Left arrow Moves one word to the left at a time.
30 Ctrl+Right arrow Moves one word to the right at a time.
31 Ctrl+Esc Open the Start menu.
32 Ctrl+Shift+Esc Open Windows Task Manager.
33 Alt+F4 Close the currently active program tab
34 Alt+Enter Open the properties for the selected item

Special Characters

These are some of the common special characters that nowadays very popular:

S.No Sequence Character


1 Alt 128 Ç
2 Alt 129 ü
3 Alt 130 é
4 Alt 131 â
5 Alt 132 ä
6 Alt 133 à
7 Alt 134 å
8 Alt 135 ç
9 Alt 136 ê
10 Alt 137 ë
11 Alt 138 è
12 Alt 139 ï
13 Alt 140 î
14 Alt 141 ì
15 Alt 145 æ
16 Alt 146 Æ
17 Alt 147 ô
18 Alt 148 ö
19 Alt 149 ò
20 Alt 150 û
21 Alt 151 ù
S.No Sequence Character
22 Alt 152 ÿ
23 Alt 155 ¢
24 Alt 156 £
25 Alt 157 ¥
26 Alt 158 P
27 Alt 159 ƒ
28 Alt 160 á
29 Alt 161 í

Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac

Following is the list of Shortcut Keys of Computer A to Z with Mac Os:

S.No
Shortcut Action
.
1 Command-X Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard.
2 Command-C Copy the selected item to the Clipboard.
Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document
3 Command-V
or app.
4 Command-Z Undo the previous command. Press Command-Shift-Z to redo.
5 Command-A Select all items.
6 Command-F Open a Find window, or find items in a document.
Find the next occurrence of the item you’re searching for. Press
7 Command-G
Command-Shift-G to find the previous occurrence.
Hide the windows of the front app. Press Command-Option-H
8 Command-H
to view the front app but hide all other apps.
Minimize the front window to the Dock. Press Command-
9 Command-M
Option-M to minimize all windows of the front app.
10 Command-N Open a new document or window.
Open the selected item, or open a dialog to select a file to
11 Command-O
open.
12 Command-P Print the current document.
13 Command-S Save the current document.
Close the front window. Press Command-Option-W to close all
14 Command-W
windows of the app.
15 Command-Q Quit the current app.
16 Command-Option-Esc Choose an app to Force Quit.
17 Command-Tab Switch to the next most recently used app among your open
S.No
Shortcut Action
.
apps.
18 Open Apple+Down Opens the selected icon.
Open Apple+Shift+Up
19 Used to direct the input focus to the desktop level.
Arrow
20 Open Apple+L Make alias.
21 Open Apple+R Show the original item.
22 Open Apple+? Mac help.
23 Open Apple+E Eject
24 Up arrow Used to select the icon above the one currently highlighted.
25 Down arrow Used to select the icon below the one currently highlighted.
26 Tab Highlight the next icon inside the folder, in alphabetical order.
Highlight the previous icon inside the folder, in alphabetical
27 Shift+Tab
order.
Used when viewing by the icon to select the icon to the left of
28 Left arrow
the one highlighted.
Used when viewing by the icon to select the icon to the right of
29 Right arrow
the one highlighted.
30 Shift+Click Select the icon and add it to the set of those selected.
31 Open Apple+T Add to favorites.

General Linux Shortcuts

Common Shortcut Keys of Computer A to Z for Linux operating system:

S.No
Shortcut Action
.
Copy any highlighted text, image, or some other object to the
1 Ctrl + C
clipboard.
2 Ctrl + V Paste copied text, image, or some other object from the clipboard.
3 Ctrl + X Cut highlighted text, image, or some other object.
4 Ctrl + S Save the currently opened file.
5 Ctrl + N Create a new file.
6 Ctrl + Z Undo the last action.
7 Ctrl + Q Quit the application in focus.
Ctrl + Alt + F1 to
8 Switch to a virtual console.
F6
9 Ctrl + Alt + F7 Switch to the first graphical terminal.

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