Have you ever been in a meeting where someone was sharing their screen for a presentation and with a few keystrokes, they had a different screen displaying? The presenter probably used the shortcut of select and hold ALT+TAB to display icons for all open programs then press TAB to move to the program you want to use. Do you lock your computer when away from your desk? A quick way to do that is to press the Windows logo button and the letter ‘L.’
Here are a few more that you might find handy:
- Press CTRL+ESC at the same time to bring up the Windows Start menu
- The F1 key will open the Help window for the program you are currently using
- CTRL+A: Select all items or text on a page
- CTRL+C: Copy
- CTRL+X: Cut
- CTRL+V: Paste
- CTRL+Z: Undo
- CTRL+B: Bold
- CTRL+U: Underline
- CTRL+I: Italic
- SHIFT+F10: Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object)
- CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)