I had a subscription to PCWorld until I decided I just didn’t have the free time to sit and read it. The other day, they sent me a couple cards in the mail and one of them had these shortcuts. Some I knew and a couple I didn’t, so I thought I’d share them with you, along with a few of my own.

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Shortcuts for most Windows programs
CTRL+S – Save the current document
CTRL+O – Open a new document
CTRL+Z or ALT+BACKSPACE – Undo your last action
CTRL+Y – Re-do the action you just undid
CTRL+A – Select everything in the document, on the page, or in a text area on a web page.
CTRL+X – Cut – Deletes the selected text or item, copying to the clipboard.
CTRL+C – Copy to the clipboard
CTRL+V – Paste from the clipboard
CTRL+P – Open the Print dialog box (in DOS, this opened the print buffer directly, live-printing whatever hit the screen)
CTRL+I – Toggle Italics or Italicize the selected text
CTRL+B – Toggle Bold or Bold the selected text
CTRL+U – Toggle Underline or Underline the selected text
CTRL+F – Start the Search tool or dialog
CTRL+Q or ALT+F4 – Quit the current program
CTRL+W – Close the current window
CTRL+HOME – Move to the start of the current document
CTRL+END – Move to the end of the current document
ALT+TAB – Switch to the next open program
CTRL+TAB – Switch to the next open document in the current program
SHIFT+ALT+TAB – Switch to the previous open program
SHIFT+CTRL+TAB – Switch to the previous open document in the current program
WIN+TAB – Switch to the next open program in 3D view (Vista only)
WIN+SHIFT+TAB – Switch to the previous open program in 3D view (Vista only)
WIN+F – Find files and folders
WIN+D – Minimize all programs to show the desktop
WIN+E – Open the File Explorer
WIN+L – Quickly lock the PC
F1 – Help
F3 – Find the next search result in the document
SHIFT+F3 – Find the previous search result in the document
F5 – Refresh (works in more than just the browser)

It’s worth noting that quite often the reverse effect of a shortcut key combination can be obtained by adding SHIFT into the mix as seen above with document and program toggling.

If you want easy reference to this list, just print out this mini guide and keep it next to your computer.

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