A
few useful keystrokes within Windows
When you encounter the phrase
"control+" followed by a key it means to hold the control
key down and press the designated key. This also applies to the key
words "shift" and "alt". The key word "windows"
will be used to referr to the special windows keys that are next to
the "alt" buttons, they are identified by a small Windows
icon.
Within the
windows environment, it
is
important to note that you usually select what you are going to act
on, and then select an action, such as one of the following
keystrokes.
Within the
windows environment, the
mouse and arrow keys will move the cursor. Th editing cursor is a
vertical bar "|", when editing text, the edit cursor is
also the insertion point.
control+c
- Copy the selected
content
to the clip board.
control+v
- Paste the current clip
board contents to the current insertion point.
control+x
- Copy the selected content to the clip board, and delete
the currently selected content.
control+z - undo the last action.
These keystrokes work within most dialogs, and editing enviroments
within Windows.
03/27/08