Save Tons Of Time with Keyboard Shortcuts

06/08/2013
 

Do you know that people who do not use keyboard shortcuts are wasting 64 hrs /year?!! A keyboard shortcut is a key combination that performs a certain command, such as closing a window or saving a file. We all should be grateful to the one who has invented keyboard shortcuts. He has offered us a great favor by saving time.

Through this article, Softex Newsletter will tackle this topic giving you some important Keyboard shortcuts you may never know.
  Essential Shortcuts to Save Tons of Time:

There are a few shortcuts that are worth working on because they make you more efficient. And in some cases, they are more than shortcuts because there are times you cannot use menus to accomplish these actions.

-Save:   Ctrl + s
-Print:    Ctrl + p
-Undo:  Ctrl + z
-Cut:    Ctrl + x
-Copy:  Ctrl + c
-Paste: Ctrl + v
-Alt + tab:to scroll through all the windows you have opened.
-Alt + Esc: Quickly jumping from one program to the next without
                  mouse.
 Have You Known about Facebook Shortcuts?
Facebook’s keyboard shortcuts are slightly more complicated and vary among browsers and operating systems. The examples below work using Windows with Internet Explorer or Chrome.

- ALT + M – Compose Message
- ALT +? – Jump to search bar
- ALT + 6 – Account Settings
- ALT + 7 – Privacy Settings
- ALT + 8 – Jump to Facebook Official Fanpage
- ALT + 9 – Jump to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
- ALT + 0 – Help Center
 
A Cool Keyboard Shortcut that’s not commonly known & very useful. Go to the address bar & type the name of the site w/o the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter & it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” & take you there – like magic!