General Computer Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can make your life easier.  They usually work, even when right click doesn’t!

• Ctrl + C = Copy

• Ctrl + V = Paste

• CTRL + A = Select All

• In Google, Ctrl + Shift + V = Paste Plain Text

• Ctrl + Z = Undo

• Ctrl + mouse click = select multiple items

• Shift + Home (or End) = Highlight from cursor to Home (or End)

• Ctrl + P = Print Menu

Chrome Shortcuts

Alt+Home Open your homepage.

Alt+Tab Toggle between browser windows

Alt+Left Arrow Back a page.

Alt+Right Arrow Forward a page.

F11 Display the current website in full-screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode.

Esc Stop page or download from loading.

Ctrl+(- or +) Zoom in our out of a page '-' will decrease and '+' will increase. Ctrl+0 will reset back to default.

Ctrl+0 Reset browser zoom to default

Ctrl+1-8 Pressing Ctrl and any number 1 through 8 will move to the corresponding tab in your tab bar.

Ctrl+9 Switch to last tab.

Ctrl+Enter Quickly complete an address. For example, type google in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to get https://www.google.com.

Ctrl+Shift+Del Open the Clear Data window to quickly clear private data.

Ctrl+Shift+B Toggle the bookmarks bar between hidden and shown

Ctrl+A Select everything on a page

Ctrl+D Add a bookmark for the page currently opened.

Ctrl+F Open the "find" bar to search text on the current page

Ctrl+O Open a file in the browser

Ctrl+Shift+O Open the Bookmark manager.

Ctrl+H Open history in a new tab

Ctrl+J Display the downloads window

Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E Perform a Google search

Ctrl+L Move the cursor to the browser address bar and highlight everything in it.

Ctrl+N Open New browser window.

Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito (private) mode.

Ctrl+P Print current page or frame.

Ctrl+R or F5 Refresh the current page or frame.

Ctrl+S Saves the current page

Ctrl+T Opens a new tab.

Ctrl+U View a web page's source code

Ctrl+W Closes the currently selected tab.

Ctrl+Shift+W Closes the currently selected window.

Ctrl+Shift+T Reopens the last tab you've closed (up to 10).

Ctrl+Tab Moves through each of the open tabs.

Ctrl+Left-click on link Open the link in a new tab in the background

Ctrl+Shift Left-click on link Open the link in a new tab and switch to the new tab

Spacebar Moves down a page at a time.