As I say in the video below, it does amaze me how many people are not aware of the simple shortcuts one can use to navigate though text quickly – and in many cases faster than you would with a mouse.
For some of you, what’s listed here will make you say to yourself, "Okay, who doesn’t know these keyboard shortcuts?" Quite a few, actually. You’d be surprised.
I label these as keyboard shortcuts everybody should know because if you rely too much on your mouse, it can prove to be a huge time waster. It can mean the difference between taking five minutes to type up something and thirty.
Using myself as an example, what I used to do to save time was memorize the keyboard shortcuts from the context menus in Windows applications. Using something like Notepad, what I used to do for copying years ago was – and I kid you not – ALT+E, C. For cut I used to do ALT+E, T. (These commands do in fact still work, even in Windows 7.) I wasn’t stuck on the mouse. I was stuck on context menus, as odd as that sounds. Fortunately I got out of that nasty habit and started copy/cut/pasting the proper way.
Here are the shortcuts mentioned in the video below. Some of these are very obvious, but bear in mind what’s obvious to you may not be to another.
HOME
Go to beginning of line.
END
Go to end of line (insert lame TRON reference here).
Left/Right Arrow
Move left or right, character by character.
SHIFT + Left/Right Arrow
Move left or right, character by character, highlighting text as you move.
CTRL + Left/Right Arrow
Move left or right, word by word.
CTRL + SHIFT + Left/Right Arrow
Move left or right, word by word, highlighting text as you move.
SHIFT + CTRL + HOME/END
Selects all text before (HOME) or after (END) the current position of the cursor.
CTRL + A
Select all text
CTRL + X
Cut text
CTRL + Z
Undo a cut
CTRL + C
Copy text
CTRL + V
Paste text
I use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V all the time. Don’t know what I would do without it.
I hate keyboard shortcuts it takes to long to locate the keys never used them never will . My mouse is faster and there is less to remember .
The mouse is for pointing, selecting and dragging&dropping. The keyboard does the work.
The keyboard is for data entry
Suit yourself, dude. I use the keyboard for commands.
If the keyboard was for data entry, it makes you wonder why programmmers made keyboard shortcuts…
Anyone saying that using a mouse to edit and format a document in MS Word or Excel is faster than using a keyboard fails Computing 101.
I rarely touch the mouse, only to click on desktop icons cos I always forget those shortcuts
Essential list. These save a lot of time. I’ve even managed to lose fellow developers in what I’m doing going so fast with these.
For anyone who works with text and can knows where the basic keys are on their keyboard, these are way, way, way faster than using the mouse.
Using keyboard shortcut make your work fast, it improve your professionalism. It makes life easy
The mac book wheel could this be the end of the Keyboard LOL
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary?utm_source=embedded_video
Add…
CTRL+S Save
CTRL+W Quit/Close
ALT+4 Exit (Windows only)
CTRL+SHIFT+Z Redo
CTRL+F Search/Find
…to complete an essential list for just about every application.