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Keyboard Shortcuts Press This Key To Do This

The document lists keyboard shortcuts for common computer functions like cutting, copying, pasting, undoing actions, switching between apps, locking the computer, refreshing windows, and selecting items. Key combinations using Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and Windows logo keys perform commands like closing documents, searching files, cycling through screen elements, and moving the cursor or selection.

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Keyboard Shortcuts Press This Key To Do This

The document lists keyboard shortcuts for common computer functions like cutting, copying, pasting, undoing actions, switching between apps, locking the computer, refreshing windows, and selecting items. Key combinations using Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and Windows logo keys perform commands like closing documents, searching files, cycling through screen elements, and moving the cursor or selection.

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keyboard shortcuts

Press this key To do this

Ctrl + X Cut the selected item

Ctrl + C (or Ctrl + Insert) Copy the selected item

Ctrl + V (or Shift + Insert) Paste the selected item

Ctrl + Z Undo an action

Alt + Tab Switch between open apps

Alt + F4 Close the active item, or exit the active app

Windows logo key + L Lock your PC

Windows logo key + D Display and hide the desktop

F2 Rename the selected item

F3 Search for a file or folder in File Explorer

F4 Display the address bar list in File Explorer

F5 Refresh the active window

F6 Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop

F10 Activate the Menu bar in the active app

Alt + F8 Show your password on the sign-in screen

Alt + Esc Cycle through items in the order in which they were opened

Alt + underlined letter Perform the command for that letter

Alt + Enter Display properties for the selected item

Alt + Spacebar Open the shortcut menu for the active window

Alt + Left arrow Go back

Alt + Right arrow Go forward

Alt + Page Up Move up one screen

Alt + Page Down Move down one screen

Close the active document (in apps that are full-screen


Ctrl + F4
and let you have multiple documents open at the same time)

Ctrl + A Select all items in a document or window


keyboard shortcuts

Press this key To do this

Ctrl + D (or Delete) Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle Bin

Ctrl + R (or F5) Refresh the active window

Ctrl + Y Redo an action

Ctrl + Right arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word

Ctrl + Left arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word

Ctrl + Down arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph

Ctrl + Up arrow Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph

Ctrl + Alt + Tab Use the arrow keys to switch between all open apps

When a group or tile is in focus on the Start menu,


Ctrl + Alt + Shift + arrow keys
move it in the direction specified

Ctrl + arrow key (to move to an item)


Select multiple individual items in a window or on the desktop
+ Spacebar

Ctrl + Shift with an arrow key Select a block of text

Ctrl + Esc Open Start

Ctrl + Shift + Esc Open Task Manager

Switch the keyboard layout when multiple keyboard layouts are


Ctrl + Shift
available

Ctrl + Spacebar Turn the Chinese input method editor (IME) on or off

Shift + F10 Display the shortcut menu for the selected item

Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or


Shift with any arrow key
select text in a document

Shift + Delete Delete the selected item without moving it to the Recycle Bin first

Right arrow Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu

Left arrow Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu

Esc Stop or leave the current task

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