Keyboard Tips

Outlook Shortcut Keys Front Page Shortcut Keys Fast Access to the Desktop Opening Up the Task Manager in NT 4 MS-Natural Keyboard Shortcuts Getting to My Computer from the Control Panel Undo Minimizing all windows Shortcut to System Properties Duplicating the Right Mouse Click Accessing Programs from the Start Button Quickly Starting Explorer Remapping the Keyboard Internet Explorer Shortcuts Bringing up the Properties Window Resizing or Moving a Window Keystroking is faster the using the mouse Explorer Shortcut Keys Searching for files Copy files with a Mouse/Keyboard combo Outlook 2000 Shortcut Keys Go to the Inbox CTRL+SHIFT+I Go to the Outbox CTRL+SHIFT+O Check for New Mail F5 or CTRL+M Start a New E-mail message CTRL+SHIFT+M Open the address book CTRL+SHIFT+B Start a New appointment CTRL+SHIFT+A Start a New contact CTRL+SHIFT+C Start a New meeting request CTRL+SHIFT+Q Start a New a task CTRL+SHIFT+K Make the Find a Contact box active F11 Open the Advanced Find dialog box CTRL+SHIFT+F Mark an e-mail message as read CTRL+Q Delete an e-mail message, contact, calendar item, or task CTRL+D Front Page 2000 Shortcut Keys Front Page has quite a few shortcut keys. My favorites are: Center a paragraph CTRL+E Left align a paragraph CTRL+L Right align a paragraph CTRL+R Display HTML tags CTRL+ / Apply the Heading 1 style (ect.) CTRL+ALT+1 Apply the Normal style CTRL+SHIFT+ N Not listed in their help is: Cycle through Normal / HTML / Preview Ctrl-PgUp/ Down If you are at the last row in a table, the TAB key will add a new row below the current one. Fast Access to the Desktop To get an Explorer view of the Desktop Press Ctrl-Esc or click the Start button Press R to go to Run. Note: If you are using a Win keyboard, you can get to this point by pressing Win+R Type in a period Opening Up the Task Manager in NT 4 In Windows NT 4, to quickly bring up the task manager, press Ctrl-Shift-Esc MS-Natural Keyboard Shortcuts Open the start menu - Submitted by Daniel F. Win Display the pop-up menu for the selected object - Submitted by Daniel F. Win+F1 Start Explorer Win+E Find Files or Folders Win+F Find computer Ctrl+Win+F Minimizes all windows Win+M Undo Minimize All Shift+Win+M Display Run Dialog box Win-R Cycles through taskbar buttons Win+Tab Displays System Properties Win+Break Getting to My Computer from the Control Panel If you're in Control Panel, hitting the Backspace key will switch you into the My Computer folder. Undo Press CTRL + Z to undo things like renaming a file in Explorer Minimizing All Windows To minimize all windows: Press Ctrl-ESC to bring up the Task Bar Press Alt-M This makes it a lot easier to minimize windows when all your open applications are full screen. Shortcut to System Properties To access the System Properties screen quickly, simply hold down the ALT key while double clicking on the My Computer icon. While holding the windows key, press the Pause / Break key. This will open up the System Properties box. From here you can easily get to the Device Manager Duplicating the Right Mouse Click Pressing the Shift-F10 key will be the same as clicking the right-mouse button. Accessing Programs from the Start Button To access your programs more quickly from your start button, with out aid of a mouse, hit ctrl+esc to open your start menu. Then, type the letter for the directory you are looking for. For example, to access the ever popular game of solitaire, CTRL+ESC, then "P" for programs, "A" for accessories, "G" for games, then "S" for Solitaire. If there is more than one entry for the letter, keep hitting the letter until you reach your desired location. Then, hit enter. Quickly Starting Explorer You can quickly start an explorer session by holding down the Windows key on a Microsoft Keyboard and pressing the E.key Remapping the Keyboard You can download Keyboard Remap (20 K) from Microsoft to reassign you keystrokes. With this you can also assign a key to function like the Windows key on the Microsoft keyboards. Internet Explorer Shortcuts Here are a few IE keyboard shortcuts: Go ‘Back’ to the previous page Alt+Left Arrow Go ‘Forward’ to the next page Alt+Right Arrow Add to Favorites on the current web page Ctrl+D Open the History folder Ctrl+H Open the Organize Favorites window Ctrl+B Lets you open a new web page Ctrl+L Open a new browser window Ctrl+N Reload the current page Ctrl+R Close the active Internet Explorer window Ctrl+W Bringing up the Properties Window While holding the ALT key double click on an icon to bring up the properties. Resizing and Moving a Window To Resize or Move a window: Press Alt-Space Press the S key - To Resize Press the M key - To Move You can now use the arrow keys to resize or move the window Key stroking is faster than mouse moving In desktop you can press "m", "My Briefcase is highlighted, press "enter" will open this applet. If you do not press "enter", The next "m" key stroke will highlight "My Computer". "Ctrl"-"Esc", press "P" for Programs, "enter","M""enter", you get to the first program or folder that starts with "M" Other applets will also be opened the same way. Explorer Shortcut Keys F4 - Displays the Combo Box F5 - Refresh the display Ctrl+Z - Undo last action Backspace - Go up one directory Quickly Search for Files To quickly open up the Find all Files window Press Ctrl+ESC ESC Press F3 To copy a file with a Mouse/Keyboard combo Drag the file while holding down the CTRL key - A + will appear on the icon To move a file with a Mouse/Keyboard combo Drag file while holding down SHIFT key - Nothing appears on the icon If moving a icon with the mouse and an arrow appears, it will create a shortcut. You can press shift or ctrl at anytime during the drag and it will change this little part of the icon.