This morning, I shared in another thread a keyboard shortcut I just learned today: ctrl+shift+v to paste text without formatting. It's useful for copying content from websites or emails and pasting without the text looking all wonky from the formatting from said websites or emails.
Apparently my co-workers knew this shortcut already, and I wish I knew earlier because I've been using a workaround that adds an extra step.
Here are the ones I use the most (for Windows and Chrome):
Alt+F4 - This closes applications, and when there's none open, it will instead prompt if you want to shut down your PC/laptop. At the end of the day, I just spam Alt+F4 to close everything and power down.
Ctrl+Z/X/C/V - The holy tetralogy: undo, delete, copy, and paste.
Alt+Tab - For quickly switching between windows.
Alt+directional keys - If I'm navigating deep through the File Explorer and want to quickly look around in many folders, I use the keyboard instead of the mouse. Directional keys to move around, enter to open a folder, alt+up to go to the folder in the level above or alt+left to go to the previous folder.
Shift+N - This is a YouTube shortcut I've been using a lot recently. If you're watching videos in a playlist, this shortcut lets you go to the next video in the list. If you're not watching from a playlist, it seems to pull up a random(?) suggested video.
Left and right directional buttons - Another YouTube shortcut, just a way to scrub 5 seconds back or forward in the vid.
Ctrl+[number] - If you have a bunch of tabs open, you can quickly pull up a tab by hitting ctrl and the appropriate number. So if you have 3 tabs open and want to switch to the first tab, hit ctrl+1.
Windows key + L - I always lock my laptop when I step away from it; it's good practice for work, anyway. (I've heard stories of people pranking others because they left their machine unlocked LOL not here though).
I think that's about it. There are more Chrome shortcuts I'd like to memorize so looks like I need to try these out.
So I'm curious, what shortcuts do you use regularly? Maybe it's something helpful to someone else!
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