Lesser-Known Keyboard Shortcuts For Less Hassle At Work

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Everyone today is familiar with the cut copy and paste keyboard shortcuts. These, however, are not the only ones. While the mouse helps us easily navigate through our desktop/laptop screens, operating a keyboard is much speedier.

Keyboard shortcuts are of great help when you have to speed up the working process to meet the deadlines. For this, you must know some of the best keyboard shortcuts. Scroll down to find out

Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Windows:

We all, at some point of time, have faced the issue of our screens getting hanged. To get rid of this irritating problem all you have to do is press Ctrl+Alt+Del to start the task manager and click on the tab that is hanged and simply click on end task.

To Save: Ctrl+S
To Print: Ctrl+P
To find a word or sentence on the page: Ctrl+F
To undo an activity: Ctrl+Z
To delete: Ctrl+D
To change window: Alt+Tab
To minimize window: Alt+Space+N
To maximize window: Alt+Space+X
To take a screen grab: Alt+Print Screen
To rename a file: F2

Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Word

Jump to end of the document: Ctrl+End
Jump to start of document: Ctrl+Home
Go to last edit: Shift+F5
For spell check: F7
Select All: Ctrl+A
To select a whole word: Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right arrow
To select a whole paragraph: Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrow
For Bold: Ctrl+B
For Italics: Ctrl+I
To Underline: Ctrl+U
For all capital words: Ctrl+Shift+A
To copy the same format: Ctrl+Shift+C
For page break: Ctrl+Enter

Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Excel

Next cell: Tab
Previous cell: Shift+Tab
First cell in row: Alt+Home
Last cell in row: Alt+End
Top cell in column: Alt+Page Up
Last cell in column: Alt+Page Down
Repeat function: F4

Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Mail

Compose new message: Shift+C
Reply: Shift+R
Reply all: Shift+A
Forward: Shift+F
Save a draft: Ctrl+S
Mark as read: Shift+I
Mark as unread: Shift+U
Move to next message: N
Move to previous message: P
Open a conversation: O
Mark selected message as important: =
To open a new email: K
To open a previous email: J
To open the inbox screen: U
To send an email: Ctrl/Command + Enter

Keyboard Shortcuts For Apple Mac

To open a document: Command+O
Save: Command+S
Print: Command+P
Find: Command+F
Select All: Command+A
Cut: Command+X
Copy: Command+C
Paste: Command+V
Undo: Command+Z
Switch application: Command+Tab
Quit Application: Command+Q
Move item to trash: Command+Backspace
A new window (Finder): Command+N
Hide/Show Dock: Command+Option+D
Force Quit: Command+Option+Esc

Keyboard Shortcuts For Adobe Photoshop

Undo, multiple times: Ctrl+Alt+Z
Hand/move tool: Spacebar
Switch document: Ctrl+Tab
New layer: Ctrl+Shift+N
New layer: Ctrl+Shift+Atl+N
Duplicate layer: Ctrl+J
Fit to window: Ctrl+0
Re-run filter: Ctrl+F
Fade filter: Ctrl+Shift+F

Begin using them and get habituated to these shortcuts so that your work at office gets easier and faster.

Aakanksha Ahire

Aakanksha is a feature writer covering youth centric beats involving education, careers, health, lifetsyle, culture, and mental health. Though a Gen Z, she is a Millennial at heart. You can connect with her @aakankshahire