70 shortcut keyboard combinations and trick for windows operating system
Have you ever thought how many secretes are hidden inside of your computer. Technology have provided the touch pad systems which are rapidly spreading and the use of mouse is gradually dying down today. But the keyboard is the only thing that seems to be unchanged.
Below is a list of all the hot keys combination that will come in useful.
Firstly, the keyboard comprises of the Function Keys labelled F1 to F12 located at the top roll of the keyboard.
The Tab key located by the left of the keyboard.
The Shift key located by the left represented by ‘SHIFT’ or an Arrow mark pointing upwards
The Control Key (CTRL for short) right below the Shift key.
The windows key located at the lower roll of the keyboard and has the WINDOW logo on it.
Now let’s dive in;
- CTRL+ A: Select all the text in a document
- CTRL + B: Bold a selected text
- CTRL+ C: Copy selected text
- CTRL+ D: Duplicate current selection/item
- CTRL + D - Bookmark the current webpage
- CTRL+ E: Center content on a page
- CTRL+ E: Open search bar in a browser
- CTRL+ F: Open Find and Replace in a document or window
- CTRL+ I: Italicize a selected text
- CTRL+ J: Justify your selected text
- CTRL+ J: Downloads
- CTRL+ H: Replace
- CTRL+ K: Opens Hyperlink
- CTRL+ L: Highlight address bar
- CTRL+ L: Align text left
- CTRL+ N: Opens new windows/document
- CTRL+ O: Open file
- CTRL+ P: Print document
- CTRL+ R: Align text right
- CTRL+ R: Reload/Refresh
- CTRL+ S: Save a document
- CTRL+ T: New Tab
- CTRL + Q: Quit current application
- CTRL+ U: Underline a selected text
- CTRL+ X: Cut selected items
- CTRL+ V: Paste selected text
- CTRL+ W: Close current window/tab
- CTRL+ Z: Undo last action
- CTRL+ Y: Redo last action
- CTRL+ Shift+ N: New incognito window
- CTRL + Shift + Esc: Open Task Manager
- CTRL + Shift+ T: Reopen the last closed tab or window
- CTRL+ALT+ TAB: Switch between open windows
- CTRL+ Windows key+ D: Show desktop
- CTRL+ Windows key+ S: Search
- CTRL + Alt + Del: Open the security options menu
- CTRL + F4: Close the current tab or document
- CTRL + Shift + N - Create a new folder
- CTRL + Esc: Open the Start Menu
- CTRL + Alt + Arrow key (up, down, left, right) - Rotate the screen orientation
- CTRL + Shift + N - Create a new folder
- CTRL + Shift + Delete - Open ‘Clear browsing data’ window
- CTRL + Home - Go to the beginning of a document
- CTRL + End - Go to the end of a document
- CTRL+ Shift+ Arrows keys: selects texts to the left or right
- CTRL + Arrow key – Places cursor one word at a time
- CTRL + (plus sign) + OR CTRL + (minus sign)- Zoom in or out of a large number of items
- CTRL + Arrow key – Places cursor one word at a time
- CTRL + (plus sign) + Zoom out
- CTRL + (minus sign)- Zoom in
- CTRL+SHIFT+> Increase your font size
- CTRL+SHIFT+< Decrease your font size
- Windows key + R: Open the Run dialog box
- Windows key + I - Open Settings
- Windows key + S - Opens the Search Bar
- Window keys: Opens the start menu
- Window + A: Opens the action center (quick access to the computer setting)
- Window+ D: Minimize all the open windows immediately.
- Window + E : Quick access to windows file explorer
- Window + F: Opens the feedback hub in Windows 10
- Windows + M: Minimizes all open tabs at once
- Windows + F1: Open Windows Help and Support
- Alt+ Enter: View the properties of a selected item
- ALT+F4: Close the active item or program
- ALT+ Spacebar: Open the shortcut menu for the above window
- ALT+TAB: Switch between the open windows
- ALT+ Home: Display the Home page of the browser
- ALT+ESC: Cycles through items in the order that they have been opened (switch to next open application)
- Shift +F10: Display the shortcut menu for the selected item
- Shift + Arrow key: Select text

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