Top 10 necessary keyboard shortcuts everyone should know

Keyboard shortcut you use that can greatly increase your productivity, and helps to maintain focus. Top 10 keyboard shortcuts that is necessary for everyone memorize and use.

Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert

Copy the highlighted text or selected item.

Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert

Paste the text or object that's in the clipboard.

Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y

Ctrl + Z undo any change. Pressing Ctrl + Y would redo the undo.

Alt + Tab or Alt + Esc

Quickly switch between open programs moving forward.

Press Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs in a program.

Adding the Shift key to Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab will move backwards. For example, if you are pressing Alt + Tab and pass the program you want to switch to, press Alt + Shift + Tab to move backwards to that program.

Windows Vista and 7 users can also press the Windows Key + Tab to switch through open programs in a full screenshot of the Window.

Ctrl + F

Open the Find in any program. This includes your Internet browser to find text on the current page.

Ctrl + Back space

Pressing Ctrl + Backspace will delete a full word at a time instead of a single character.

Ctrl + Left arrow / Right arrow

Move the cursor one word at a time instead of one character at a time. If you wanted to highlight one word at a time you can hold down Ctrl + Shift and then press the left or right arrow key to move one word at a time in that direction while highlighting each word.

Ctrl + Home / End

Move the cursor to the beginning or end of a document.

Page Up / Space bar and Page Down

When browsing the Internet pressing the space bar will also move the page down one page at a time for each page.

Ctrl + P

Print the page being viewed. For example, the document in Microsoft Word or the web page in your Internet browser.