February 10, 2006...5:50 pm

Microsoft Windows – Assorted shortcuts

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Windows

F10 or Alt F10 or Alt toggles between the menu bar and the main window in a program.

Ctrl+Tab switches to the next window of a multiple-document-interface program.

Alt+F4 closes a program. F3 F3 runs Find again (in many but not all Windows utilities.

Access

Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar enters the default value for a field.

Ctrl+’ (apostrophe) enters the value that appears in the same field in the previous record.

Ctrl++ adds a new record.

Ctrl+- deletes the current record.

Excel

Shift+F2 edits or creates a comment in the current cell.

Esc, then Arrow keys moves a comment that’s being edited.

Esc, then Esc again closes a comment that’s being edited.

Ctrl+Shift+” (quotation mark) copies the value from the cell above the current cell.

Ctrl+’ (apostrophe) Ctrl+’ copies the formula from the cell above the current cell.

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