5 things you didn’t know your keyboard’s Shift button can do
ALBERT KHOURY,
We often cover keyboard shortcuts and tricks to help you browse and work
more efficiently. But today, we’re going to shift our focus, so to
speak, on just one.
The Shift key is a modifier key, mainly used to type capital letters and
the symbols at the top of other keys. But it can do so much more. Here
are five more ways to use the second-largest key on your keyboard.
1. Reverse the action of other keys
The Shift key helps you work backward in that it reverses your other
commands. Here are some examples:
•Ctrl+Z = undo; Shift+Ctrl+Z = redo.
•Space = scroll a webpage down; Shift+space = scroll a webpage page up.
•Ctrl+Tab = next tab; Shift+Ctrl+Tab = previous tab.
•Alt+Tab = next app; Shift+Alt+Tab = previous app.
•Ctrl+T = open new tab; Shift+Ctrl+T = re-open last closed tab.
2. Scroll sideways
You use your mouse wheel to scroll vertically on webpages and documents,
but did you know you could also scroll horizontally? It’s easy with the
Shift key:
•Hold Shift and scroll your mouse wheel to move horizontally on webpages
and apps that support horizontal scrolling. It works great for those
extra-wide spreadsheets.
3. Highlight text
Start by placing your cursor at the beginning or end of the section or
word you want to highlight, then do any of the following:
•Shift+Right Arrow or Left Arrow selects one character at a time.
•Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow or Left Arrow selects the word to the right or left.
•Shift+Up Arrow or Down Arrow selects the paragraph to the beginning or end.
•Shift+End selects an entire line from your cursor to the end.
•Shift+Home selects an entire line from your cursor to the beginning.
•Shift+Page Up or Page Down selects the text from your cursor one screen
up or down.
4. Cut and paste
You probably use CTRL+C, CTRL+X and CTRL+V to copy, cut and paste,
respectively. These are common shortcuts most people know about. But if
you want to impress someone or have a change of pace, you can use the
Shift key to perform some of these functions as well:
•Shift+Delete cuts selected sections of text, images or other objects.
•Shift+Insert pastes your selection.
•If you want a new way to copy, try Ctrl+Insert.
5. Sticky Keys
Sticky Keys is a Microsoft Windows accessibility feature that makes
modifier keys work with a tap. For example, instead of holding Shift and
a letter to make it capital, you just tap Shift and a letter.
Sticky Keys work with other modifiers such as Ctrl, Alt and the Windows
Logo key. Here’s how to give it a try:
•Tap Shift five times to turn on Sticky Keys to get a popup
notification. Select Yes to turn on the function. Now try using the
function keys as you normally would, but just press them once rather
than holding them.
•Tap Shift five times again to turn off Sticky Keys.
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