Gain 4 Hours per Week: Learn 75 Practical Keyboard Shortcuts

Celebrate reaching the halfway point of the course and invite questions or ideas in the discussion to improve the experience. Continue toward greater productivity in Microsoft Windows.

Celebrate completing the course by applying practical techniques to master keyboard shortcuts for more productive Microsoft Windows workflows, and explore 75 bonus videos with original tips and tricks.

Apply the opar method—organization, participation, action, and review—to keep your desktop clean by regularly organizing, moving, or deleting documents, shortcuts, and folders.

Learn to use the Windows key to open and close the start menu and quickly launch apps, whether pinned to the taskbar or chosen from the start menu.

Master Windows start menu customization by using the Windows key to open it, pinning and arranging tiles, resizing icons, renaming groups, and personalizing colors to speed program access.

Learn how to launch applications quickly using the Windows start menu search, the Windows key, and typing to find programs like calculator, Word, Excel, and Photoshop.

Learn to launch programs using the run command dialog with Windows key plus R, typing run command, and entering app names like Word, Internet Explorer, or Photoshop to start quickly.

Explore practical Windows keyboard shortcuts to launch apps and search for files using the search box, Windows key, and Windows Q, and learn when to prefer each approach.

Use the Windows key to open a file-only search, limiting results to files and folders, helping you quickly locate a specific file like a photo.

Master the Windows key plus a taskbar number to launch apps or cycle through multiple windows, using pins and running programs for fast access.

Master customizing the Windows taskbar and notification area, pinning items to the quick launch, reordering apps with drag and drop, and launching programs efficiently using Windows keyboard shortcuts.

Learn OS level shortcuts to open File Explorer using the Windows key plus e, or by search. Compare opening existing versus new File Explorer windows and launching from the taskbar.

Learn to quickly show your desktop with Windows D, minimize all open windows, and restore them with a second press; also compare Windows M as a similar minimize feature.

Demonstrates practical windows shortcuts to minimize and restore windows, including Windows key + M, Windows key + D, and Windows key + Shift + M, plus right-click taskbar options.

Master how to minimize all but the active window with the Windows key + Home. Restore the hidden windows with the same shortcut and snap with left or right arrows.

Peek at your desktop with version-specific shortcuts, using the Windows key on Windows 8 and the Windows key plus spacebar on Windows 7 and XP, then restore Windows.

Learn to change keyboard language on Windows, switch inputs with the Windows key plus spacebar, and use the on-screen visual keyboard for typing foreign languages.

Learn how to maximize, restore down, and minimize windows using keyboard shortcuts, specifically Windows key + up arrow and Windows key + down arrow.

Learn how to snap windows to the left or right using the Windows key and arrow keys, arrange two windows side by side, and quickly switch or unsnap between positions.

Discover how to quickly manage multi-monitor displays in Windows using display settings and keyboard shortcuts to duplicate, extend, or project to a second screen.

Move the active window between two monitors using Windows key plus shift plus left or right arrow, and maximize with snap on your left or right screen.

Learn to lock your computer instantly with Windows shortcut options, such as Ctrl+Alt+Delete to access the lock option or Windows key plus L for a quick screen lock.

Learn to activate and use the Windows magnifier with Windows plus and minus keys, adjust full-screen and lens views, and have the magnifier reflect the mouse position on screen.

Discover how the Windows print screen shortcut saves a full-screen screenshot to your pictures screenshots folder, using the Windows key plus print screen, with the snipping tool for selected regions.

Explore how the Windows 8 charms bar groups search, share, start, devices, and settings, and learn practical keyboard shortcuts like Windows+C to open charms and Windows+I to access settings.

Explore Windows 8 level keyboard shortcuts to quickly open settings and adjust brightness, volume, language, and display, using Windows key combinations and the Windows X menu to access Control Panel.

Discover operating system level keyboard shortcuts on Windows to access the quick link menu, task manager, run, and search, and compare four efficient methods for each action.

Learn to cycle between apps on Windows using the Windows key and number shortcuts, taskbar icons, and preview windows, enabling quick navigation across active and inactive programs.

Learn practical keyboard shortcuts to switch between open applications, including using the windows taskbar, windows key with a number, and alt-tab to cycle through windows.

Use alt+escape to cycle through open applications in their current order, with no preview. Minimized apps won't appear, so ensure all windows are maximized for seamless cycling.

Learn to use ctrl+alt+delete to access task manager and lock options. Discover how to close apps or individual windows in task manager, and try ctrl+shift+esc as an alternative shortcut.

Open task manager quickly with ctrl+shift+escape to force quit unresponsive programs. Access it via right-click, Windows key, Windows X, or Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and compare closing a document to quitting an app.

Discover how to exit a window or quit an application with shortcuts like Alt+F4, including handling multiple windows and tabs.

Explore how keyboard shortcuts differentiate closing a window from quitting the application, using ctrl/alt variants with Word, PowerPoint, and Chrome; learn window snapping and tab behavior.

Master keyboard shortcuts for navigating file explorer and browsers, using up, left, and right arrows to move through folders and pages, and back and forward to revisit sites.

Learn keyboard shortcut #34 to open a file or folder's properties dialog directly in the file explorer, revealing size, path, created date, sharing options, and location details.

Learn how the Alt key brings up the file menu across apps like Word, Excel, Chrome, and Photoshop, enabling quick access to save, open, and print, and simplifying navigation.

Explore navigating Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe apps with keyboard shortcuts using the Alt key to access the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, enabling quick formatting and inserts.

Master keyboard shortcuts to focus the address bar in file explorers and browsers, type searches, and navigate to folders like documents or pictures for faster access.

Use keyboard shortcut #38 to enable and toggle a preview pane in file explorer, quickly preview images, Illustrator files, Word documents, and other files to speed navigation.

Master application level keyboard shortcuts to open the macro editor and VBA editor, automate PowerPoint and Excel workflows, and resize images to fullscreen using simple macros.

Explore built-in help in Microsoft Office using the question mark button or F1, navigate with arrow keys, and search for features like borders in Excel to learn quickly.

learn how to rename files and folders with the F2 shortcut in file explorer, and edit cell contents in Excel using the same keystroke, with practical rename examples.

Use the Shift+3 keyboard shortcut to cycle text case in Word and PowerPoint, switching between lower case, upper case, and each word capitalized for quick formatting.

Master the F5 keyboard shortcut to automatically refresh pages in your browser, from news sites to social feeds like Twitter and Facebook, and prepare for future shortcuts like FSX.

Use the F6 function key to cycle focus across browser and file explorer, moving between address bars, login fields, and drives. The video notes that F7 opens the spell checker in the next lesson.

Learn to use spell check in Microsoft Word with F7, adjust or set language for text, switch languages for selections, review suggestions, and remember spell check isn’t perfect.

Learn how safe mode and boot menu behavior changed across Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, including the F8 key, command prompt access, and boot policy notes.

Explore the history of the 90s in relation to application level function keys, including F9 for a program called Corpus quirked and shift 10 as a right-click equivalent.

Discover how shift+f10 opens context menus in Word, PowerPoint, and Chrome, compare menu differences, and learn to use Windows key plus 10 to access ribbon options.

Learn to use application level keyboard shortcuts, including alt+f11 to open the VBA editor, alt+f8 to run macros, and f11 to toggle full screen, and the save as shortcut.

Discover how to use the F12 save as keyboard shortcut to create new document versions in Word, using save as dialogs and version names like version 1, 2, and 3.

Master undo and redo with Control Z and Control Y across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chrome, demonstrated through a marketing plan edit.

Master in-application shortcuts like control d to delete items to the recycling bin and practice deleting files in file explorer via right-click, the delete key, or the control shortcut.

Discover how the tab key moves you between fields, checkboxes, and buttons in browsers and file explorers, with shift+tab for backward navigation and enter or space to interact.

Master application level shortcuts to activate the Windows Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar across apps and Creative Cloud tools, enabling inserting pictures, animations, and navigation with keyboard and mouse.

Customize the quick access toolbar in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to quickly access commands with keyboard shortcuts, adding or removing items like cut, paste, undo, and insert picture.

Use in-application keyboard shortcuts to generate random placeholder text in Word and PowerPoint with Warum or Rand, specifying paragraphs and sentences for latin or english filler.

Use Ctrl+L and Ctrl+J to adjust text alignment in Word, switching between left, center, and justify. The lesson uses placeholder text to illustrate alignment changes and the default left justification.

Navigate Word and Excel with the home and end keys to reach line starts and ends. Use Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End to jump to document extremes, and Shift to highlight.

Master navigating and selecting text with keyboard shortcuts, using page up/down, home, end, shift, and control to move through documents and highlight content in programs like Word.

Navigate and select text in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint using left and right arrows, control arrows, and shift arrows. Move by characters or words and highlight text efficiently, including spaces.

Master efficient Word navigation with the up and down arrows, Ctrl and Ctrl+Shift combos to move by lines, paragraphs, and pages, and quick text selection and highlighting shortcuts.

Master keyboard shortcuts to control the office ribbon in Word and PowerPoint. Use ctrl f1 to auto-hide, ctrl shift f1 to hide, and ctrl shift 1 to restore.

Learn how to access print preview in Word and Excel through the file menu or keyboard shortcuts, and explore grayscale or black-and-white print options for slides.

Learn to zoom in and out across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and browsers with the ctrl key and mouse wheel; use fit selection for quick view.

Learn three control key shortcuts to select text in Microsoft Word: double-click a word, shift-click to select a sentence, and control-click to select a sentence or paragraph.

Master keyboard shortcuts for locating text in Microsoft Word using control f, the navigation dialog, and jumping to next or previous instances; learn shift 4 for quick navigation.

Learn to use Ctrl+H to open the replace dialog in Word and PowerPoint, enabling find and replace with match case and replace all, and use Ctrl+G for quick navigation.

Use the Ctrl+G go-to shortcut to open the go-to dialog and jump to a specific page, paragraph, line, bookmark, or footnote in Word or PowerPoint.

Open new windows and tabs with keyboard shortcuts in browsers and word processors. Navigate between tabs and pages using ctrl-based commands, including ctrl+tab, ctrl+shift+tab, and ctrl+page up/down.

Learn three efficient ways to switch browser tabs with keyboard shortcuts: ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab, ctrl+page down/up, and ctrl+number to jump to a specific tab.

Master browser tab management with shortcuts to open closed tabs, close tabs with control w, reopen with control shift t, and switch tabs using control page up/down or control tab.

Discover three ways to refresh a browser page—F5, Ctrl+R, or the refresh icon—while efficiently jumping to the address bar in Chrome for quick access.

Master browser zoom shortcuts with control equal sign and control minus sign, reset to 100 percent using control zero, and explore the zoom menu accessed via the alt key.

Discover how to paste text into Word and Excel using keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, and paste special to keep or remove formatting, including unformatted text to strip hyperlinks.

Learn to copy formatting in Word with ctrl+shift+c and paste formatting with ctrl+shift+v, then compare with Excel's paste special options to preserve source formatting.