Shortcuts
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
There are times you really don't want to take your hands off the keyboard
to fiddle about with the mouse. For these times, there are keys you can hit on
the keyboard that work just like the mouse but can sometimes be easier to
control. Highlighting text is a prime example. Hold your shift key down and
use the arrow keys on your keyboard to highlight text. Hitting the page up
& page down keys while holding down the shift key does a large amount of
text at the same time. Hitting home while holding the shift key highlights
everything from the cursor (the blinking line) to the left of the page. Shift
and End takes you to the bottom of the paragraph.
There are a variety of commands from the menus that are available as
shortcuts too. To make these work, hold down the control (Ctrl) button and
hit:
o - opens a file
F4 - closes a file
s - saves a file
z - undo the last command
a - select all the text in a file
f - find a word or phrase in your text
h - replace a word or phrase in your text
x - cut highlighted text
c - copy highlighted text
v - paste cut or copied text in
b - bolds everything typed after that. Hitting ctrl
& b again turns the bold off
i - does the same for italics
u - same for underline
All these are noted next to the command in the menus so you can check if you
forget one.
Function keys (the buttons along the top of your keyboard with the f on
them) also have shortcuts. The common ones are F1 for help, and F7 for spell
check.
You can get the full list of shortcuts available by typing keyboard
shortcuts into the help of any program.
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
