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· You can hide all windows, revealing only what’s on the computer desktop, with one keystroke: hit the Windows key and “D” simultaneously in Windows. Press the keystroke again to return to what you were doing.

· You can enlarge the text on any Web page. In Windows, press Ctrl and the plus or minus keys (for bigger or smaller fonts).

· You can tap the Space bar to scroll down on a Web page one screenful. Add the Shift key to scroll back up.

· When you’re filling in the boxes on a Web page (like City, State, Zip), you can press the Tab key to jump from box to box, rather than clicking. Add the Shift key to jump through the boxes backwards.

· When you’re searching for something on the Web using, say, Google, put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. For example, if you put quotes around “electric curtains,” Google won’t waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word “electric” and another set containing the word “curtains.”

· You can use Google to do math for you. Just type the equation, like 23*7+15/3=, and hit Enter.

· You can open the Start menu by tapping the key with the Windows logo on it.

· You can switch from one open program to the next by pressing Alt+Tab

· Typing google in the address bar and then pressing ctrl+enter puts the www. in front of it and the .com behind it and proceeds to go to the address. Shift+enter does .net, and ctrl+shift+enter does .org

· Files can be moved from one folder to another by dragging the file icon over the icon of the destination folder.

· Ctrl + Left or Right while editing text. Jumps to the beginning of the previous (Left key) word or to the beginning of the next (right key) word. Reduces the number of Left/Right button presses drastically.

· Shortcut for saving:
Ctrl+s. So important if you’re writing any document. Works in gmail as well for drafts.

· Alt+d = takes you to the address bar of most modern web browsers

· In Firefox, you can do a quick-search of a webpage by hitting the “/” key, followed by whatever you’re searching for.

· Most web browsers are configured to use a search engine. You can type in your search text (”Wallpapers”, etc.) into the address bar, rather than going to Google or other search engines. Some browsers will take you directly to the first match, some will take you to a list of results.

· Press F11 in windows to maximize (or minimize) your web brower.

· In Microsoft Word – Shift+F3 makes a word change from all uppercase to all lowercase to just the first letter upper case and so on.

· In Adobe PhotoShop, Alt+i+i allows you to resize an image.

· On Windows, Alt+F4 will close any program.

· Ctrl + T in Internet Explorer opens a new browsing tab.

· Instead of the painstaking task of highlighting a whole document or web page with the mouse cursor, hit Control + A to select all.

· In any browser, hitting backspace takes you to the previously viewed page, just like the back button on the toolbar. Does anyone know the keyboard shortcut for the forward button?

· Also, in most programs, control+F for “find” is very useful, rather than manual searching.

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