Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Useful Keyboard shortcuts that are not commonly used (OS >= Windows 7)

Alt + spacebar (windows Keyboard shortcut ALT + SPACEBAR) => Open shortcut dropdown menu of the current window
Alt + left mouse click and drag (Select text using alt key in MS Word) (MS Word, Notepad++) => Vertically / horizontally select text
Ctrl + tab number, e.g. Ctrl + 1, Ctrl + 5, Ctrl + 9 => Navigate to the 1st, 5th and last tab in your web browser.
Ctrl + +, Ctrl + -, Ctrl + 0 => Zoom In, Zoom Out and Reset Zoom in your web browser.

* NB: I'll continuously update this document as I think about other useful keyboard shortcuts.
However if you would like to share your top 10 keyboard shortcuts that are not mentioned above and not commonly known particularly focusing on the MS Windows OS please add a comment.