Microsoft
Windows Shortcut Keys
Active Object (window, icon, etc...)
End of Document
Ctrl+End
End of line
Brings up Explorer
LogoKey+E
Brings up Find Dialog box (all files)
LogoKey+F or F3
Brings up Run Window
LogoKey+R
Brings up Windows Help
LogoKey+F1
Bypass CD AutoPlay (AutoRun)
Shift+Insert CD
Log off Windows
LogoKey+L
Minimize or undo
Minimize to all windows
LogoKey+M (Shift+Logokey+M to undo)
Open Start Menu
LogoKey(windows key)
or Ctrl+Esc
Refresh(works for folders, web pages, and many other programs)
F5
Show desktop(toggle)
LogoKey+D
Switches through applications. Keep 1st
button down for selecting different apps.
Alt+tab(Uses small pop-up window)
or Logokey+Tab(Uses Taskbar)+Enter
Hold down Shift to go backwards through list.
System Properties window
LogoKey+Pause/Break
key
Brings up help for most programs that
have it
F1
Brings up Properties
for selected object
Alt+Enter or
Alt+double click
Brings up window option menu
Alt+Spacebar
Brings up window option menu of child-window (e.g. a Word document but not MS Word itself)
Alt+ - (minus)
Closes Current Window
Alt+F4
Closes current child-window (e.g. a Word document but not MS Word itself)
Ctrl+F4
Goes up one level from open folder (goes backwards through history in most web browsers)
Backspace
Rename Selected Icon
F2
Right Click Menu
Shift+F10 or Application Key
Shows context menu for icons with extra Open With option (Does not do anything
different for versions of Windows that always have that option).
Shift+Right Click On icon
Flip through tabs
Ctrl+Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes backwards
Dragging Icons
Copy File
Ctrl+ Drag Icon
Create Shortcut
Shift+Ctrl+ Drag Icon
Move File
Shift+ Drag Icon
Go to beginning of
Document (useful for document and spreadsheet editing and web browsing)
Ctrl+Home
Go to beginning of a
line(usually)
Home
End
Move left one word
Ctrl+Left
Move right one word
Ctrl+Right
Scroll left one screen
Scroll right one screen
Ctrl+PageUp
Ctrl+PageDown
Scroll up one screenScroll down one screen
PageUp
PageDown
Copies selection to
Clipboard
Ctrl+C
Cuts selection to
Clipboard
Ctrl+X
Paste contents of clipboard to
location
Ctrl+V
Saves a snapshot of the screen
in the clipboard
Print Screen
Saves a snapshot of current
window in the clipboard
Alt+Print Screen
FootNote
-Application key is a keyboard key with a picture of
a menu with a mouse cursor over it (usually). It is located next to the right Ctrl
and Alt keys (below Enter).
-LogoKey is what I felt like calling what most people
call the "Windows" key. Usually has a MS Windows logo on it and is between Ctrl and Alt.