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The Best Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts You Didn’t Know

To speed up your worfklow — a keyboard warrior you must become.

Scollurio
3 min readMay 24, 2020

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If you’re old(school) like me and still can remember the glory days of DOS (disk operating system, way before modern Windows), you probaly use a lot of keyboard shortcuts during your workflow. They are the quicker way to get recurring stuff and menial tasks done easily — who needs the Touchbar anyways, right? So if you don’t use shortcuts, you really should start right now, especially in any professinal environment, where speed and productivity are key!

Probably most of us work with the classics, like:

  • Ctrl + A to select “all”
  • Ctrl + C to copy
  • Ctrl + X to cut
  • Ctrl + V to paste
  • Ctrl + Z to undo
  • Ctrl + Y to redo
  • Ctrl + W to close the current window/app

Most of them work in many apps and programs as well, not just on the operating system level. But there are plenty more, sometimes kind of hidden shortcuts, while working in Windows 10. To make effective use of your time and cut back on mouse usage as much as possible, I recommend getting a good, fun-to-use keyboard, a laptop sporting an industry leading keyboard and…

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Scollurio

Hailing from Austria, a self-employed graphics designer and writer since 2009. Loves long walks in the forest, rain, thoughtful solitude and silly raccoons.