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Top 10 Time Saving Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows You Should Know

If you consider yourself the one who always prioritize saving time as the most important priority then here is the good news for computer users like you. While using keyboard shortcuts in your daily computer routine you can save you a lot of time. You can make yourself productive by using keyboard shortcuts and can make yourself focused on the work. Usually people lose their focus when they put off their hands out of the keyboard.

It's a fact that everyone don't like to use the keyboard shortcuts. However some people prefer to use the keyboard as much as they can instead of using mouse for some tasks. Because these people's already experienced that the work done by mouse could take more time than the work done by the keyboard.

What is a Keyboard Shortcut?

You can perform a keyboard shortcut by pressing specific keyboard keys together to repeat a specific action. This action completes by pressing a modifier key with a character key.

According to research at Brainscape using keyboard shortcuts can save about 64 hours per year or 8 working days.

A Practical Example of using Keyboard Shortcuts:

Let me tell you an interesting thing that the most productive technical support companies or the organization where the data entry work done on a big scale they try to limits their employees to use keyboard for most of their computer work and this can be possible only when bound themselves using keyboard shortcuts. These kind of employees are usually productive for the company because they keep their focus on the work.

Do You Want to Be A Super User?

As you master yourself with keyboard shortcuts and make use of them in your daily routine the peoples like you usually known as super user. Because the use of the keyboard becomes more easier for you than the other people who don't use the keyboard shortcuts. Another reason of that is you made a workflow for computer use with keyboard shortcuts.

Sometimes you don't know the keyboard shortcuts so alternatively you use the mouse and try to find out the required command by scrolling down through menus which waste a lot of seconds to perform just one command that's totally a waste of time. I think this is the main reason of losing focus while you work.

Due to all above reasons, it's important to use keyboard for most of the tasks, and make keyboard shortcuts as part of your daily computer life. In the list below we have given the top 10 computer shortcuts that you should use them in your daily computer life:

1) Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert / Ctrl + X (To Cut or Copy any item)

2) Shift + Insert or Ctrl + V (To Paste Copied Item)

3) Ctrl + Y or Ctrl + Z (Undo or Redo an action)

4) Alt + Esc. or Alt + Tab (Switch Between Windows)

5) Alt + F4 (Close the Window)

6) Ctrl + W (Close the Tab – Used normally while using internet browser)

7) Ctrl + F (Search for items)

8) Windows + R (To Open Run Command)

9) Ctrl + Backspace (Delete a Word to the left – while text editing)

10) Ctrl+Shift then Left/Right Arrow (To Select words – while text editing)

How to Activate Urdu Typing Feature in Windows 7

Today I’ve brought a really necessary guide for Pakistani/Indians and everyone who is looking for how to type Urdu language in combination with English. Typing Urdu language is essential for Pakistani citizen because it’s their mother tongue and they type Urdu so often then English. Let’s read the guide below:

Step One: Install Urdu Language Support / Right-to-Left Language Support

1) Go to Control Panel and type ‘Region and Language’ in search box at top-right corner of the window You will see it’s icon with name Change the date, time, or number format double-click on it.

You can go to Control Panel just by pressing Windows Key + R and type 'control’ then press 'Enter’ key

2) ‘Region and Language’ window will open. Now click on the ‘Keyboard and Languages’ which is on the number three order. Point your cursor to ‘Display language’ section and click on the ‘Install/uninstall languages...’ button.

3) A new dialog box will appear ‘Choose to install or uninstall display languages’ which two options will appear ‘Install display languages’ and Uninstall display languages

4) Click on the ‘Install display languages’ option. You will take to the next page with title ‘Choose your method of install’ with two options ‘Launch Windows Update’ and ‘Browse computer or network’.

5) Skip this step if you don’t have Windows 7 DVD, if yes then click on ‘Browse computer or network’ and then browse to the Windows 7 DVD to install Right-left language support.

6) Click on the ‘Launch Windows Update’ if you have access to the internet from your PC. After that ‘Windows Update’ window will appear you can either click on ‘Install updates’ to install languages or either you can click on Optional updates are available’ to install a language pack of your needs.

Step Two: Install Phonetic Keyboard Layout to Type Urdu Language Easily

1) Now you have installed Urdu/Arabic language support in your Windows 7. Now you can install Phonetic keyboard layout because this is the most commonly used Keyboard layout in Pakistan, India to type Urdu language. You can click on the below to install Phonetic Keyboard layout:

Urdu Phonetic Keyboard Layout for Windows 7(Download this Link)

(Note: Extract this link with Winrar and Click On Setup.exe)

Congratulation now you can type Urdu language anywhere on your computer. You can also install Urdu fonts on your computer to get different styles of writing by going to link below:

Download Free Urdu Fonts for your PC

How to Use Keyboard Step by Step - Urdu Guide

As we all know that keyboard is commonly used input device for computer, now it's the standard for sending textual information, commands and instructions to the computer. However, today we have also touch-input technology, which can help us to do similar functions. We'll discuss these are in the market and who use them. Keyboard is commonly used input device for this purpose, and it's most recommended to these types of essential tasks.
Now let's talk about the basic components of the keyboards, so you can understand that what you can do with your keyboard.

Let’s Start Exploring Your Keyboard!

1) Insert or Delete Alphabet/Numeric Characters:

1. In keyboard, there are a group of Alphabetic keys from 'A' to 'Z'. After these keys at bottom there is a spacebar button.

2. Above Alphabetic keys, there are Numeric keys in a row from '0' to '9'. These numeric keys have some symbolic keys as well that we mostly use every(@, #, ^, and $).

3. You can see a group of keys like a calculator at the right side of the keyboard which known as 'Numeric keypad'. We use this to insert numeric characters. There is also a 'Num Lock' at the right corner of the keypad which is a toggle button (on/off button). When you turn on Num Lock key, you can type numeric characters and when turned off can be used to as cursor control keys/or a mouse pointer.

4. At very right of the numeric keys you'll backspace button, which used to delete one character to the left.

(Tip: Press Ctrl+Backspace to delete one word to the left).

5. Delete Key usually located on the Cursor-control key, the purpose of this key is to delete single character from right side each time and this continues whenever you press Delete key.

6. Ins or Insert key is a toggle key located near cursor-control keys. Generally, When this key is turned on, and you started to type between characters' type already, then it automatically creates space new between these existing characters. However, if you turn off this key, newly typed character will replace with the previously inserted characters. This operation is known as 'Overwriting'.

While Typing you always see a black blinking vertical bar which moves towards right, it's commonly known as 'cursor', we also call it the insertion point.ack vertical bar blinking and moving towards right when you type, it usually known as 'cursor'. We also call it insertion point.

2) Perform Variety of Task By Applying Function Keys & Shortcut Keys

1. There are two Enter keys in the keyboard, which used to confirm any operation.

2. In very old days, there were two known types of Keyboard 'Enhanced' and 'Non-Enhanced' categorized based on the number of keys in keyboard. Nowadays, Enhanced keyboard is the standard which also contains 12 function keys, which are located above the numeric keys. The main purpose of these keys is to perform specific tasks. At very left of function keys there is an 'Escape' or 'Esc' key, which used to end or quit running operation.

3. A Keyboard has six modifier keys, two Ctrl or Control Keys, Two Alt or Alternate Keys and two Shift keys. These keys are often used to apply shortcut keys.

4. You can use Shift key to change the letter case to lower or capital-case. Suppose if you're typing alphabets and press Shift and C simultaneously, then letter case will change to capital-case. Basically, Shift key does the reverse any task. There is a Caps Lock key which is a toggle key (on/off key). When it's turned on you can type the alphabet letters in Capital-case.

5. Nowadays, keyboard is included with Windows Key by which you can apply shortcut keys that are associated with this key. For example, if you just press Windows Key it opens the Start Menu.

3) Navigate Around Items or Objects:

1. Keyboard has a 'Tab' key. This key is used to insert tabulation and also use to move from one object to another in the Operating system's Interface.

2. Keyboard has 8 or more Cursor Control keys. The first four keys are ↑Up, ↓Down, ←Left and →Right. A Home key (Which take the cursor to initial location of any object/item). an End key (Which take the cursor to last location of any object/item). A Page Up or Pg Up key(which take the cursor to one page above of the information currently showing) and a Page Down or Pg Dn key (which take the cursor to one page bottom of the information currently showing).You can also see these keys in numeric keypad, if you turn off Num lock key.

4) Some More Important Keys You Need to Know:

3. A Scroll Lock or Scr lk key in Keyboard used to lock scrolling function, which located near Print screen key.

4. There is Print Screen or Prnt Scn key, captures the screenshot of the currently displayed items/objects in the screen and copies the captured screen to Clipboard (will discuss later).

5. If you want to stop a running process temporarily, then you can press Pause/Break key.

6. A standard keyboard has also included with a Right-click Context Menu key opens the menu when use press presses the Right-click button.

This is all in the keyboard you have it in your home or office, office. I'm sure that an average person knows all these things, because if you work in the program like Microsoft Word, Excel then you'll play with all these keys and shortcuts.

Let’s Play the Game!

Now let’s play this game with me by writing comments with the ‘name’ of the key or the group of keys that I marked with a number.