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Here's MANY more!
Come on, Jason, how can you miss all these?? We all know about Alt-underlined letters, but...

GENERAL
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F1: Help

F2: Rename

F5: Refresh

F10: Open the menu

CLIPBOARD
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Ctrl-Insert: copy

Shift-Delete: cut

Shift-Insert: paste

LISTS OF NAMED OBJECTS, e.g., files in Explorer
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Some letters: move to first object whose name begins with those letters

To the following you can add Shift to select from the current object onward rather than just move:

Home/End: first/last object

PageUp/PageDown: object one screenful back/forward

Arrows: next object in that direction

TREEVIEWS, e.g., the Folder window in Explorer
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NumPad +: Expand one level

NumPad -: Collapse one level

NumPad *: expand all levels

Left arrow: Back to parent, another one to collapse it

Right arrow: expand one level, another to move to first child

DOCUMENT WINDOWS IN AN MDI APPLICATION
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Alt-hyphen: opens a document window's control box

Ctrl-F4: closes a document window

To the following and also Alt-Tab and Alt-Esc, you can add Shift to cycle backwards:

Ctrl-F6 or Ctrl-Tab: cycles among document windows. Note: In applications like Word with floating dialog boxes like Find/Replace, use Ctrl-Tab to switch between Find/Replace and the active document; use Ctrl-F6 to cycle among documents.

F6: cycle among a document window's panes

DIALOG BOXES
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Tab: cycles focus among controls -- add shift to cycle backwards

Space: click a button or toggle a checkbox

Alt-Down: drop down a list

Alt-Up: collapse a drop-down

Arrows: choose one radio button in a group

Enter: click the default button, with the darker outline than others, usually OK

Esc: click the Cancel/Close button

TEXT
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Ctrl-Backspace: Delete previous word

Ctrl-Delete: Delete next word or to end of line

Insert: Toggle insert and overwrite modes

To all the following you can add Shift to extend the selection rather than move the cursor:

Home/End: beginning/end of line

Ctrl-Home/End: beginning of text/file

PageUp/PageDown: one screen/page up/down

Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown: to beginning/end of text/file or top/bottom of screen

Up/Down: one line up/down

Ctrl-Up/Down: beginning/end of paragraph

Left/Right: previous/next character

Ctrl-Left/Right: previous/next word
Posted by asmith@...
2nd Jun 2005