Back during my days as an IT consultant I had the opportunity to teach some federal employees how to use the new windows-based software that my company had designed for them. In a windows world, it’s all about “clicking here” and “clicking there” which I assumed would make their jobs easier. Well, they were quick to enlighten me otherwise. They could work like lightning using keyboard commands–having to reach for the mouse and “click” actually slowed them down. So, I modified my training to incorporate windows keyboard shortcuts and became a convert. Here are some of the shortcuts I find most useful these days:

• [Ctrl] + [x] = Cut
• [Ctrl] + [v] = Paste
• [Ctrl] + [z] = Undo
• [Ctrl] + [b] = Bold
• [Ctrl] + [i] = Italics
• [Ctrl] + [u] = Underline
• [Ctrl] + [n] = New
• [Ctrl] + [o] = Open
• [Ctrl] + [s] = Save
• [Ctrl] + [Prt Scr] = Print Screen
• [F1] = Help!