Cool Keyboard Shortcuts In Windows7

After a long day of working online do you ever want to throw your computer out of the window? What if your really frustrated but don’t want to break your expensive computer equipment? You could always do like a co-worker of mine did, and give the mouse a toss. I think he regretted his action just as the flying mouse left his pitching arm and bounced off of the office window and shattered into pieces. Fortunately for him he was still able to finish his report in time thanks to Keyboard Shortcuts.

Navigate Around Your Screen

You can navigate around your screen using Ctrl + Tab to move forward through tabs, Ctrl + Shift + Tab to move back, and Tab to move forward through options or Shift + Tab to move back through options. So just keep in mind that adding Shift to a key combination gives the opposite effect of the original combination.

Windows Keyboard Commands

It’s also easy to navigate around the screen using the arrow keys and hitting the enter key is the same as a mouse click. If you have a windows keyboard many of the common windows keyboard commands are on the keyboard. Such as Ctrl + X for cut, Ctrl + C for copy, Ctrl + V for paste, and Ctrl + B for bold, and Ctrl + U for underline and Ctrl + I for Italic. If you lock your function keys with your F Lock you have a help menu, undo, redo, open, close, reply, fwd, send, spell, save and print keys.

Windows Logo Key

If you press the Windows Logo Key you will get the start menu. You can cycle through the menu items using the directional arrows and the enter key. But that’s not all. Say you want to run a program press the Logo Key + R. If you want to use Aero Flip to cycle through the open programs on your screen go ahead and hit the Logo Key + Tab.

Here are some other useful Windows Logo Key Shortcuts for Windows 7

Windows Logo Key+Home: Clear all but the active Window

Windows Logo Key+Space: All Windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop

Windows Logo Key+Up arrow: Maximize the active Window

Windows Logo Key+Down arrow: Minimize the Window/Restore the Window if it’s maximized

Windows Logo Key+Left/Right arrows: Dock the Window to each side of the monitor (If you’ve got dual monitors, adding Shift to the mix (e.g., Windows Logo Key+Shift+Right arrow) will move the Window to the adjacent monitor.)

Windows Logo Key+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.

Windows Logo Key+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display

Windows Logo Key+(+/-): Zoom in/out

Shift+Click a taskbar item: Open a new instance of that application

Fun With Windows7 Keyboard Shortcuts

A great way to discover the shortcut keys for Windows 7 is to experiment a little. Try to navigate without the mouse and see what key combinations work for you. Eventually often used keys will become second nature such as using Ctrl + A to select all or Ctrl + F5 for a browser refresh. Most programs also use accelerator keys that make commands easier using the keyboard. If there is an underlined letter in an application menu then pressing Alt + that letter will initiate that keyboard command. Pressing the Alt key in some programs also highlights different keyboard commands.

For a complete list of Keyboard Command Shortcuts for Windows 7 you can always check out the complete list provided by Microsoft. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts