11 Fantastic Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Know Now

If you are using windows regularly, then this post will definitely help you. Below is the list of windows keyboard shortcuts that will help you breeze through your daily work.

You might know some of them, but there are certainly some hidden gems that you wouldn’t have heard of before. Once you start using them, you will notice how easy navigating and operating on windows has become.

The Basic Shortcuts

1. Ctrl + Z : Undo

Whatever program you’re running – this function helps you get back to your last input or position. So don’t worry about all the mistakes.

2. Ctrl + A : Select All

This shortcut key selects all the text, files or folders or elements in the program depending on what you are using.

No need to drag the mouse everywhere now. It is usefully more than you actually think.

3. Ctrl + C : Copy

You’ve selected what you wanted to. Now what? What? What? Of course, You’d like to copy it.

This is one of the top shortcut key people would use when working on their windows system. Easily copy whatever you like and it stays with you until you are ready to paste it where you like.

4. Ctrl + V : Paste

Paste easily all that you have copied. It could be text, file, image or folder. A very useful feature to bring everything.

If you would like to paste plain simple text, without original formatting just add Shift to it. i.e. Ctrl + Shift + V.

5. Ctrl + X : Cut

Don’t want a piece of text/table/image/file/video at the particular place? Now what? What? What? Of course, You’d like to cut it.

Simply select it and use the shortcut Ctrl + X. The piece gets removed and copied. Then simply use the paste shortcut Ctrl + V to paste it anywhere you like.

6. Alt + Tab : Switch Screen/Tabs

This one has been around for a while and has been enhanced with upgrades in the Windows OS. Simple press Alt and then the Tab key and you will switch to the next tab/screen which you have opened.

While holding on to the Alt button and tapping on Tablets you choose between multiple screens. Talk about multi-tasking!

8. Alt + F4: Close App/Window Shut Down

This shortcut has been around for decades now! Simply press alt plus the function F4 key and you will see the application that you are on closes.

It is also used for shut down of windows press Alt and the function key F4 then choose the windows shut down option and press Enter.

9. Ctrl + F : Find

Typed in something that you cannot find? Or simply you are looking for a particular keyword on a document or a browser? Ctrl + F is the handy shortcut that will open a quick bar where you can type in the keyword and it will show you all the results in the document matching that keyword.

10. Ctrl + H : Find & Replace

You not only want to find some keywords but also replace them? Not a problem at all. The Ctrl + H shortcut comes in handy which will help you in a better way.

Just hit the keys and a box will open. You can simply type in the word that you need to find and replace. Works for most document types. Specially used in a programming language to find the variables and then replace them with our choice.

11. Windows key + D: Minimize

It minimizes all the currently open applications in the windows.