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LEARN HOW TO TAP YOUR ALT BUTTON.. .. IT'S AMAZING!!

When you tap the ALT button you access all nine or ten menus at the top of your screen.
This works for thousands of different programs, including most of the ones that YOU use.

When you tap and release ALT then V, you can tap, for example, the letter X so you can look up to your screen and see a menu offering to change the size of the text that you're viewing. MANY pages on the internet have lettering that's either too small or too large. We can fix it in a blink by tapping ALT, V, X one after the other. Go ahead. Give it a try.

Whether it's creating a form letter or having instant "paste-ability" of a set of actions you repeatedly take, the fact is, there are thousands of shortcuts available to you. WHATEVER your primary interest in a computer it, you only need a few of them to instantly multiply rather than just increase your computer-time productivity. When you can accomplish a 45-minute task in four or five minutes, the proverbial light bulb pops on.

No matter what you use a computer for, it ten or twelve of these shortcuts is all it takes to pretty well master the program. ANY PROGRAM! Whether you take a month to learn these 10 or 12 shortcuts, or learn them in a day, these shortcuts determine precisely how proficient you become at your favorite programs.

Think carefully, it's the only purpose of this page: ten or twelve shortcuts is all you need to double and triple your productivity QUICKLY. Which ten or twelve are best for you are easily determined by whether you are focusing on:

  • documents


  • images   (photos or moving images)


  • sound
That's it, because anything you wish to do comes under those categories, you follow?   Great.

For most of us, even a few of the following shortcuts are all we need for good control of a device that is designed to multiply your own personal/professional productivity.

Knowing what to do is not a tenth of doing what you know.   Not a tenth, not a twentieth.


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Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts
You can use shortcut keys to view and explore Web pages,
preview pages before printing, use the Address bar, work with favorites, and edit

It's well worth printing these pages so you can hang them near you for quick reference

Viewing and exploring Web pages

  • Display Internet Explorer Help, or when in a dialog box, display context Help on an item F1
  • Toggle between full-screen and regular views of the browser window F11
  • Move forward through the items on a Web page, Address bar, or the Links bar TAB
  • Move back through the items on a Web page, the Address bar, and the Links bar SHIFT+TAB
  • Go to Home page --- --- ALT +HOME
  • Go to the next page --- --- ALT +RIGHT ARROW
  • Go to the previous page --- --- ALT +LEFT ARROW or BACKSPACE
  • Display shortcut menu for a link SHIFT+F10
  • Move forward between frames --- --- CTRL + TAB or F6
  • Move back between frames SHIFT+ --- --- CTRL + TAB
  • Scroll toward the beginning of a document UP ARROW
  • Scroll toward the end of a document DOWN ARROW
  • Scroll toward the beginning of a document in larger increments PAGE UP
  • Scroll toward the end of a document in larger increments PAGE DOWN
  • Move to the beginning of a document HOME
  • Move to the end of a document END
  • Find on this page --- --- CTRL + F
  • Refresh the current Web page F5 or --- --- CTRL + R
  • Stop downloading a page -------------- ESC
  • Go to a new location --------------- --- --- CTRL + O or --- --- CTRL + L
  • Open a new window --- --- CTRL + N
  • Close the current window (Great for zapping popup windows) --- --- CTRL + W
  • Save the current page --- --- CTRL + S
  • Print the current page or active frame --- --- CTRL + P
  • Activate a selected link ENTER
  • Open the Search bar --- --- CTRL + E
  • Open the Favorites bar --- --- CTRL + I
  • Open the History bar --- --- CTRL + H
  • In the History or Favorites bars, open multiple folders --- --- CTRL + click
  • Using Print Preview
  • Set printing options and print the page --- --- ALT +P
  • Change paper, headers and footers, orientation, and margins for this page --- --- ALT +U
  • Display the first page to be printed --- --- ALT +HOME
  • Display the previous page to be printed --- --- ALT +LEFT ARROW
  • Type the number of the page you want displayed --- --- ALT +A
  • Display the next page to be printed --- --- ALT +RIGHT ARROW
  • Display the last page to be printed --- --- ALT +END
  • Zoom out ------ --- --- ALT +MINUS
  • Zoom in ------ --- --- ALT +PLUS
  • Display a list of zoom percentages -------- --- --- ALT +Z
  • Close Print Preview --- --- ALT +C

    • Using the Address Bar

  • Select the text in the Address bar --- --- ALT +D
  • Display a list of addresses you've typed F4
  • When in the Address bar, move the cursor left to the next logical break in the address (period or slash) --- --- CTRL + LEFT ARROW
  • When in the Address bar, move the cursor right to the next logical break in the address (period or slash) --- --- CTRL + RIGHT ARROW
  • Add "www " to the beginning and " com" to the end of the text typed in the Address bar --- CTRL + ENTER
  • Move forward through the list of AutoComplete matches UP ARROW
  • Move back through the list of AutoComplete matches DOWN ARROW

Working with Favorites

  • Add the current page to your favorites --- --- CTRL + D
  • Open the Organize Favorites dialog box --- --- CTRL + B
  • Move selected item up in the Favorites list in the Organize Favorites dialog box
    •
  • --- --- ALT +UP ARROW
  • Move selected item down in the Favorites list in the Organize Favorites dialog box
  • --- --- ALT +DOWN ARROW

    • Editing

  • Copy the selected items to the Clipboard --- --- CTRL + C
  • Remove the selected items and copy them to the Clipboard --- --- CTRL + X
  • Paste: To insert what's on the clipboard Clipboard (at the selected location) -- --- CTRL + V
  • Select all items on the current Web page (It goes to your invisible clipboard) --- --- CTRL + A