Some Really Cool Tips To Use Shortcuts On Your Keyboard
By villageanne
@villageanne (8553)
United States
March 20, 2007 4:07pm CST
Dont you just hate it when you are typing and need to move your hand to the mouse to do something? Did you know that there are many things that you can do with your keyboard without using the mouse? If you have Internet Explorer 7, there are many things that you can do to spice up your time on the computer. Try some of these and let me know what you think of them? I love using the F5 to refresh the page. It is so cool to keep fresh pages when adding comments on gather or other message boards.
You might want to just print them out so you can have them right by your computer when you're ready to use them. They are pretty cool to use.
1.Alt + F4 - Closes all the tabs.
2.)Alt + Enter - Opens a new tab from the address bar.
3.) Ctrl + Shift + Click - Opens links in a new tab in the foreground.
4.) Ctrl + Click - Opens links in a new tab in the background.
5.) Alt + Enter - It also opens a new tab from the search box.
6.) Ctrl + Q - Opens up quick tabs, which are thumbnail views.
7.) Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab - Allows you to switch between tabs.
8.) Ctrl + N - Opens an entirely new browser page
9.) Ctrl + 9 - Switches to the last tab.
10.) Ctrl + W - Closes the current tab.
11.) Ctrl + Alt + F4 - Closes other open tabs.
12.) Ctrl + T - Opens a new tab in the foreground.
Now,Are you ready for this? Here are a few shortcuts that you can use with your mouse.
1.) Click the middle mouse button (if your mouse has one) on a link and it will open up that link in a background tab for you.
2.) Double click any empty space right next to the last tab you have open and it will open up a brand new tab.
3.) If you click on the middle mouse button on one of your tabs, it will close the tab for you.
Here is a few more tips for you
Ctrl plus C (copy)
Ctrl plus V (paste)
F5 will refresh the page
Now How Cool Was that? Your friends will be amazed at all the wonderful tricks you can do with your keyboard and mouse now!
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16 responses
@serialmommy (639)
• United States
21 Mar 07
OK, those are great! I won't remember them all, so I'm going to have to copy/paste them to a word doc tomorrow (too tired tonight to mess with it), however I am hoping that I remember the 3rd button/scroll button thing! My scroll button presses down like a 3rd button, so try that before saying you don't have one as it worked for me!
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@onlyu2008 (172)
• China
21 Mar 07
Thanks for your good article!I have studied so much about shortcuts.
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I did not know any of these. Thank you so much for the help and info. You are so thoughtful. God loves you, M&M
+ rating again for you.
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@meljessxena (2315)
• Australia
21 Mar 07
oh awesome, i knew some of them but cool to learn new things all the time, thanks for sharing your tips
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@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
21 Mar 07
Wow Anne, you are always great at giving tips. These are so usful for all of us, who spend lots of time infront of our computer. I am not very good at using shortcuts using the keyboard. I use just few like for copy paste, select and save a page etc. I will take a print out of this article and will try to use all of those key combination.
Thnaks for these great tips.
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@vampirestonez (1181)
• Pakistan
21 Mar 07
Nice and handy shortcuts!
I am using IE so most of those shorcuts are a bit different here, but never the less they are handy :)
Thanks for sharing it with the myLot community.
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@retardedrugrat (4791)
• Canada
21 Mar 07
I think maybe my keyboard doesn't really like these lol, because I tried a few of them and they didn't work for me!
I've had this problem before though. I use Mozilla Firefox to surf and so at first thought it might be that, then I saw the response that said they refer to Mozilla so it stumped me somewhat lol.
But oh well, good idea for a discussion though, and I'm sure many people will find them handy. I guess for me, I'll just have to keep on using my mouse lol.
Thanks for sharing though!
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@dylizans (27)
• Poland
21 Mar 07
Here are another useful ones:
WIN+D - shows the desktop
CTRL+A - select all (useful when you want to copy whole text)
These probably everybody knows, but may be useful for somebody:
END while typing - go to the end of line
PageUp/PageDown - jump go/down through bigger than one line parts of text
CTRL+F in Firefox (and many, many others applications) - search
@shrekk (561)
• Pakistan
21 Mar 07
To be frank, I knew most of these short-cuts already, but the some of them WERE new for me, so thanks for them. This discussion isn't really a response-oriented one, so I'll just say that I gave you a positive rating for trying to be of help to others!
@Lisa_W (13)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I used to teach computers to blind people. Since they can't see the screen, they need to use the keyboard shortcuts. Occasionally, our mouse will stop working and my husband will go crazy because I can still use the computer and he can't:) I'm sure all programs have shortcuts. I used to teach the ones for Windows, MS Office, etc.
