Keyboard shortcuts have become lost over the years. If you can learn them you can save a lot of time and effort in building letters, articles or anything else. There are more than the ones I am showing you here but these are the “production” keys. The ones that can help you the most. Link to more shortcut keys and menus.
I love these shortcuts. They are fast and easy and can help you produce articles, letters or anything else very fast. In fact I used them to create at least parts of this web site.
***If I say to push key “together” it means you must have both key pushed at the same time.
Copying a word or sentence
- Drag through the letter, word, sentence, paragraph or even pictures or music files. Anything you want. It must be highlighted to be able to copy it.
- Hit the Ctrl and letter C together. You have now put it on what is known as the clip board. It is a temporary location windows gives you to store you item until your next action.
Pasting your copy to a different area or location
Actually I think this is kind of cool!!
- Place your cursor (your mouse pointer) in the “exact” spot were you want to place what you highlighted.
- Press the Ctrl and the letter V together. The will paste the contents in the location you have chosen.
CUT & PASTE
You need to read this a little closer. Why? because this will literally remove the text from the location you had it in. If you were to reboot the computer before you paste the text you will (or at least could) lose the content. This because it stores it in “temporary memory”. This is lost when you reboot the computer. If you complete the task you’ll be fine.
- Select the letter, word or whatever you want to move or remove.
- Press Ctrl and the letter X together. This should have removed the area you had highlighted.
- Now place your cursor in the exact spot you want to place the content you had highlighted.
- Press Ctrl and V key. This should have put all the content you had highlighted before.
This is great if you want to relocate any kind of text.
