Tired of scrolling to the bottom of a website to get to something at the bottom? Take a shortcut instead!
Pressing Command + the down arrow key on Mac, or Ctrl + down arrow on Windows, will instantly take you to the bottom of the page, no matter how long it is. Command or Ctrl + up arrow takes you immediately back to the top.
It works sideways too. Try holding Command or Ctrl with the right or left arrows to go promptly to the beginning or ending of the line of text or a row in a spreadsheet.
Keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time, such as if you’re going through several webpage tabs or articles quickly. Even for daily browsing and computer-ing, they can help speed up the time it takes for mundane, simple tasks, freeing up more of your time to get to what’s important.
Here are several more which are particularly useful for daily use:
Print: Control (Ctrl) + P; Command (⌘) + P.
Copy: Ctrl + C; ⌘ + C.
Paste: Ctrl + V; ⌘ + V.
Save: Ctrl + S; ⌘ + S.
Open new windows: Ctrl + N; ⌘ + N.
Open new tabs: Ctrl + T; ⌘ + T.
Hide windows: Windows key + M; ⌘ + Option + H + M.
Screen shot: Windows key + Print Screen (or Windows key + Ctrl + Print Screen on older PCs); ⌘ + Shift + 3.
Force quit an application: Ctrl + Alt + Esc to open Task Manager; ⌘ + Option + Esc.
Search: Windows key + S; ⌘ + Space.
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