-The 'Ctrl plus F' key on your keyboard brings up the 'find' function. Particularly useful when reading e-mails you need to find the Ad Code, Ad published twice etc. Also good for find requirements in word documents or even excel.

-The 'Ctrl plus N' keys open up a new window. Excellent when reading emails, you need to visit some other link without exiting your email program. Or you need to open two e-mails in the same account at the same time, or compose a reply with the email open in front of you. Or... the possibilities are endless.

-The 'Shift plus mouse click' opens any link in a new page. Good when you need to  visit another site without exiting your present location.

-The 'Alt plus left arrow' enables you to move to a previous  page in a web. 

-The 'Alt plus right arrow' enables you to move forward in a website.

- Ctrl plus A - Selects all the material on the window /screen

 - Ctrl plus X - is the keyboard shortcut for the 'cut' operation.

- Ctrl plus C - keyboard shortcut for copy function - particularly useful when the right click pop up menu is disabled in some program, or the copy function has been disabled in a document, can even be used in unsecure pdf files to copy data onto clipboard.

(Shift plus F2 also does the copy function)

- Ctrl plus V - pastes the data previously copied onto a clipboard -

 I have found the 'ctrl plus c and the ctrl plus V keyboard shortcuts extremely useful in copying data from pdf files into a word document--

 ( I know the general consensus is that you cannot copy from a PDF file- but it is totally possible if the file is not password protected - I was once given a PDF file with 1000 pages of closely written text to somehow convert into word and make it editable, the project Manager had been going crazy with worry over it for the better part of a whole week -- it took me all of 2 minutes -- I went Ctrl A to select all, Ctrl C to copy to clipboard, and Ctrl V to paste into word).

It is also useful for copying  from emails into a word or excel document or when you are working in two different programs (such as word and excel ) at the same time, and you need to copy and paste from one document to the other.

Ctrl plus P - brings up the print window in case if you need to print a document without being able to access the print function in any other way.

PrtScn  Key n symbol Captures a screen shot of the active window onto the clipboard, you can then press Ctrl plus V to paste this screen shot in your program of choice such as word, Microsoft Frontpage or excel XP.

Alt Plus PrtScn is another useful function it can print screen shots  exclusively of the resized window - not the whole window. Useful when you want to select what you want to show.

Ctrl plus K is another useful keyboard shortcut - when you need to insert a hyperlink , ctrl plus K brings up the hyperlink box.

The F1 key brings up the Microsoft help box.

Shift plus F1 helps to reveal the formatting of a field.

F3 -This key inserts an auto-text in MS Word.

Shift plus F3 - changes the Case of letters.

Shift plus F5 - Goes to the last change.

F7 - is for spell check - spelling and grammar

Shift plus F7 - brings up the thesaurus

F10 - activates the menu bar

F11 - generally goes to the next field or in Microsoft Access XP, the F11 key brings up the main database window even if it has been hidden away.

Ctrl + Alt + Delete keys all pressed together terminate an application or bring up the application box - this is helpful if you have several programs open on your computer and one of them gets impossibly stuck... while you don't want to terminate the other programs, however you can end the unresponsive program by bringing up the application box and closing off the unresponsive program.

Ctrl plus F4 closes the window - useful if you don't find the 'close' button on a window, and want to close it.

Here is another neat trick -- a bonus really - Press Ctrl plus \ (Ctrl plus back slash)  this types a straight vertical line instead of the back slash symbol -- just like the vertical lines used as separators between the PSP Game download links above (at the top of this page) - Go take a look.

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