My favourite Vista keyboard shortcuts

People who see me working on my notebook are often amazed with the speed at which I perform tasks by using the keyboard instead of the mouse. Here are the keyboard shortcuts that I use frequently:

Shortcuts for Microsoft Office and Notepad:
Ctrl-O: Open a document
Ctrl-S: Save the current document
Alt-S: In Outlook, sends the current email
Ctrl-A: Select all contents of the document
Ctrl-C: Copy the selected content into the clipboard
Ctrl-V: Paste the clipboard content
Alt-H, V, S: Paste Special in Microsoft Office, useful for pasting text without formatting and for pasting values/formulas/formats in Excel
Alt-W, L: In Word, changes the document view to Web Layout view for easier reading on small screens

Shortcuts for Internet Explorer:
Ctrl-O: Open a URL
F6: Selects the URL bar
Backspace: Go back to previous web page
F11: Expands the web browser to fullscreen mode for easier browsing on small screens. Press F11 again to return to normal mode.

Shortcuts for Windows Vista:
Windows-R: Brings up the "Run" prompt. Type the name of an application (e.g. notepad) or the name of a file (e.g. c:\report.doc). You can press up/down-arrow to view the list of past applications/files. Press Enter to select.
Alt-Space, N: Minimise the current window
Alt-Space, X: Maximise the current window
Alt-F4: Close the current window. If you're prompted to save the file, press left/right-arrow to select the choice and press Enter.

The Menu key on the keyboard is useful in Windows Explorer:


In Windows Explorer, you can press the Menu key followed by M to rename a name quickly.

Check this for more keyboard shortcuts:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449

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Lee Lup Yuen

Lee Lup Yuen is passionate about mobile phones and PDAs, as he is constantly buying new gadgets and programming them in J2ME, .NET, Symbian and AppForge. He has developed commercial applications with mobile technologies like SMS, MMS, WAP, 3G video streaming and location-based services.