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Necessary Chrome shortcuts for day to day work

June 23, 2016 by Satyapriya


Chrome is one among the most popular browsers with a large number of people using it daily. Chrome offers the best features to its users and many features that are unknown to many people are mentioned in my previous article that is published about some weeks ago. And now here I am going to share with you some shortcuts of the chrome browser for doing some things very quick and easily.

Home:

Home button in the keyboard helps you to scroll the cursor onto the top of the page.

End:

End button in the keyboard helps you to scroll the cursor onto the bottom of the page.

F5:

Just simply press the F5 button to refresh the current tab.

Alt + F5:

It is even simple to refresh all the open tabs with just a shortcut. Alt + F5 button combination refreshes all currently opened tabs.

Alt + Left:

Pressing the back button in the browser window may be the only thing you know to go back to the previous page. Alt + Left keys combination will take you to previous page.

Alt + Right:

Alt + Right keys combination will take you to the next page.

Ctrl + D:

This key combination will bookmark the current page. No need to right click and then add the page to bookmarks. Just use this shortcut the next time you add bookmark.

Ctrl + F:

This key combination is used to search for text on the current page.

Ctrl + J:

Open the Download manager very easily and quickly using this shortcut key combination.

Ctrl + T:

Open a new tab very easily by just using this key combination.

Ctrl + W:

This shortcut closes the current tab. This may be the most needed shortcut for many of us.

Ctrl + Shift + T:

To reopen the last closed tab, that is closed in case of any mistake use this shortcut.

Ctrl + Shift + N:

Open a new private browsing session very easily using this shortcut key combination.

Ctrl + Shift + Delete:

This shortcut key very easily clears history, cache, cookies, downloads, passwords, and other data.

Shift + Escape:

To open the built in task manager use this shortcut key combination.

So try these shortcuts and see your tasks being done in a more simple and easy way than before.

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: chromebrowser, shortcuts

Make your life easier with these keyboard shortcuts

April 25, 2016 by Satyapriya

Many of us are already aware of the well known keyboard shortcuts like ALT + F4 and CTRL + C, there are some more uncertain shortcuts which many of us tend to neglect. These keyboard shortcuts are not only helpful for an average user, but also for the advanced users. You can save lot of time and effort if you use these shortcuts properly, so lets get started.

Windows Key + D

This keyboard shortcut instantly shows the desktop and it’s job is equivalent to the “Show the Desktop”. It quickly minimizes every open window and shows the desktop.

 Ctrl+ Shift+ Esc

This is the shortcut used to directly open the task manager.
Ctrl+ Click

If you want to open a link but don’t want to disturb the current tab, then just hold the control button and click on the link. This helps to open the link in the background.

Alt+ Print Screen

It just does the work of the Print screen button. It is used to take the screen shot of the current active window.

Shift+ Click

If you have check a lot of dialog boxes with the same Yes or No. then you can just use this shortcut which will save your time a lot. Just hold the shift button and then click on the yes box to make all options Yes or click No to make all options NO
Ctrl+ C

Have you ever got an error message from your computer and don’t know what to do. You can just copy the error message on your computer to share it with your technical guy. This shortcut copies the error message to your clipboard. You can paste it somewhere to share it.
Ctrl+ T

For opening the new tab in the internet browsers, this keyboard is helpful.

Ctrl+ Shift+ T

This is the shortcut key to reopen the recently closed tabs

Ctrl+ Shift+ N

This shortcut opens the Private incognito window in Google Chrome Browser.

Ctrl+ Shift+ P

This is for opening new private window in Mozilla Firefox.

Alt+ Enter

It inserts the .com automatically after entering the domain name in the browser.

Shift+ Enter

This will insert .net to the domain name.

Ctrl+ W

This shortcut is for closing the current window in the browser.

Ctrl+ Backspace

This is used for deleting the wrong word that you have recently typed.

Ctrl+ Left or Right Arrow key

It is used to move the cursor for moving one word at a time rather than the default one character at a time. It is used to navigate quickly.

Ctrl+ +

This is used to zoom in the webpages. You can use this shortcut key when the webpage is not legible.

Ctrl+ –

This shortcut does the reverse of the previous shortcut.

Ctrl+ 0

This is used to reset the webpage’s zoom.

Windows key+ M

This shortcut also used to minimize all the open windows.

Ctrl+ L

This keyboard shortcut is used to quickly jump to the address bar of the website.

Windows key+ Pause/Break

This is used to open the System Properties dialogue box.

Ctrl+ Shift+ Delete

This shortcut is used to open the options to delete the browser cookies, search history.

Windows Key+ L

To lock the computer instantly.

Ctrl+ H

It shows the history.

F2

To rename the selected file, this shortcut is useful.
Ctrl+ F

This shortcut opens the find option in any program.

Ctrl+ S

As everyone is familiar, this is used to save the work done on any program instantly.

Ctrl+ Home and Ctrl+ End

This is for instantly going to the starting or ending of the page.

Ctrl+ P

This shortcut prints the current page.

Space Bar

Many don’t actually know this trick that you can move down to the page when you press spacebar.

Ctrl+ Tab

This is used to navigate between the tabs in your browser.

Alt+ Double click

This is for opening the file’s properties.

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