I often need to search for specific words or phrases in text.  For example, I’m looking at a news story online and want to see if a specific name is mentioned.  Or I have a long Word document and want to skip ahead to the part that references a certain topic.  Lucky for me there’s a handy dandy keyboard stroke to help me out.

If I’m ever working with multiple open tabs in Chrome or with multiple worksheets in an Excel workbook and I need to move from one tab to another, there’s a keyboard stroke for that!

I often have multiple computer programs running at the same time and need to switch from one program to another.  And guess what…there’s a keyboard stroke for that!

Do you ever make typing mistakes when you’re working on your computer and wish you had a time machine that could undo what you just did? There’s a keyboard stroke that can help you travel back in time to make it as if you never made the mistake: the Undo function.

This week’s trio of useful keyboard strokes that I use all the time are the shortcuts for opening, saving, and printing documents.

This week’s trifecta of useful keyboard strokes that I use all the time are the shortcuts for right, left, and center text alignment.

This week I’m continuing my series on the magic of keyboard strokes.  The next trio of shortcuts that I use regularly are the keyboard strokes to bold, underline, or italicize text.

When working in my Microsoft Outlook inbox, there are often times when I want to select more than one email to either move into a file folder or drag into a calendar meeting or task.  I could drag each email one by one into their ultimate resting places, or I can use the Ctrl and Shift keys on my keyboard to select more than one email concurrently.

The last few weeks I’ve been extolling the wonders of keyboard strokes because of how much time they save.  A trifecta of keyboard strokes that I’ve used almost daily for many years is Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X, Ctrl +V to Copy, Cut, Paste.