Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

1. Win + Up – Maximize the current Window
2. Win + Down – Restore down or minimize current Windows
3. Win + Leftdow – Dock the current Window to the left half of the screen
4. Win + Rightdow – Dock the current Window to the right half of the screen
5. Win + Number – Activate and run the program pinned on Windows 7 Taskbar, running program won’t be affected
6. Win + Home – Minimize all but the current Window
7. Win + Space – Makes all Windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop
8. Win + Pause or Break – Open System Properties
9. Win + Tab – Flip Aero 3D [press Tab to cycle between Windows]
10. Win + B – Move focus to notification tray (the right-most portion of the taskbar)
11. Win + D – Show/Hide desktop
12. Win + E – Windows Explorer is launched
13. Win + F – Search
14. Win + G – Bring all gadgets on top and foreground
15. Win + L – Lock Computer
16. Win + M – Minimize all Windows
17. Win + P – Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops connected to projectors)
18. Win + R – Run Command is launched.
19. Win + S – OneNote Screen Clipping Tool
20. Win + T – Show preview thumbnail of running applications in Windows Taskbar one by one without mouse over
21. Win + X – Mobility Center
22. Win + # – Quicklaunch
23. Win + = – Magnifier
24. Win + + or – – Enables the magnifier and zooms in/out
25. Win + Shift + Up – Maximize vertical size
26. Win + Shift + Down – Restore vertical size
27. Win + Shift + Leftdow – Jump to left monitor
28. Win + Shift + Right – Jump to right monitor
29. Win + Shift + M – Undo all Window minimization
30. Win + Shift + T – Cycles backwards
31. Win + Ctrl + F – Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog
32. Ctrl + Right – Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word
33. Ctrl + Left – Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word
34. Ctrl + Up – Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph
35. Ctrl + Down – Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph
36. Ctrl + Click – A pinned taskbar icon to cycle through the program’s open Windows (e.g. IE)
37. Ctrl + Win + Tab – Persistent flip 3D
38. Ctrl + Shift with an arrow key – Select a block of text
39. Ctrl + arrow + Spacebar – Select multiple individual items in a Window or on the desktop
40. Ctrl + Shift + Esc – Open Task Manager directly
41. Ctrl + Shift + N – Create new folder

Ease of Access

1. Right Shift for eight seconds – Turn Filter Keys on and off
2. Left Alt+left Shift+PRINTSCREEN (or PRTSCRN) – Turn High Contrast on or off
3. Left Alt+left Shift+NUMLOCK – Turn Mouse Keys on or off
4. Shift five times – Turn Sticky Keys on or off
5. NUMLOCK for five seconds – Open the Ease of Access Center
6. Win + U – Cycle through all open Windows

Windows Explorer

1. Alt + Leftdow – Go back
2. Alt + Right – Go forward
3. Alt + Up – Go up a directory
4. Alt + Enter – Open the Properties Window of the current selection
5. Alt + Spacebar – Open the shortcut menu for the active Window
6. Alt + F4 – Close the active Window
7. Alt + Tab – Switch to previous active Window
8. Alt + Esc – Cycle through all open Windows
9. Alt + D – Move focus to address bar
10. Alt + P – Show/hide the preview panel
11. Ctrl + N – Open a new Window
12. Ctrl + Mousewheel – Change the view type (extra large, small, list view, detail, etc.)
13. NUMLOCK + Asterisk (*) on numeric keypad – Display all subfolders under the selected folder
14. NUMLOCK + Plus Sign (+) on numeric keypad – Display the contents of the selected folder
15. NUMLOCK + Minus Sign (+) on numeric keypad – Collapse the selected folder

Taskbar Modifiers

1. Shift + Click on icon – Open a new instance
2. Middle click on icon – Open a new instance
3. Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon – Open a new instance with Admin privileges

Dialog Box

1. Ctrl + Tab – Move forward through tabs
2. Ctrl + Shift + Tab – Move back through tabs
3. Shift + Tab – Move back through options
4. Tab – Move forward through options
5. Alt + underlined letter – Perform the command (or select the option) that goes with that letter
6. Enter – Replaces clicking the mouse for many selected commands
7. Spacebar – Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box
8. Arrow keys – Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons
9. BackSpace – Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box

Photo Gallery

1. Ctrl + F – Open the Fix pane
2. Ctrl + P – Print the selected picture
3. Ctrl + I – Open or close the Details pane
4. Ctrl + . – Rotate the picture clockwise
5. Ctrl + , – Rotate the picture counter-clockwise
6. Ctrl + Mouse scroll wheel – Change the size of the picture thumbnail
7. Ctrl + B – Best fit
8. Ctrl + E – Search for an item
9. Alt + Leftdow – Go back
10. Alt + Right – Go forward
11. + – Zoom in or resize the picture thumbnail
12. – – Zoom out or resize the picture thumbnail
13. Shift + Delete – Permanently delete the selected item
14. Enter – View the selected picture at a larger size

Login

1. Win + Right + Enter – Shutdown
2. Win + Right + Right + R – Restart
3. Win + Right + Right + S – Sleep
4. Win + Right + Right + W – Switch users

Remote Desktop

1. Alt+Page Up – Move between programs from left to right.
2. Alt+Page Down – Move between programs from right to left.
3. Alt+Insert – Cycle through programs in the order that they were started in.
4. Alt+Home – Display the Start menu.
5. Ctrl+Alt+Break – Switch between a window and full screen.
6. Ctrl+Alt+End – Display the Windows Security dialog box.
7. Alt+Delete – Display the system menu.
8. Ctrl+Alt+Minus Sign (-) on the numeric keypad Place a copy of the active window, within the client, on the Terminal server clipboard (provides the same functionality as pressing Alt+PrtScn on a local computer).
9. Ctrl+Alt+Plus Sign (+) on the numeric keypad Place a copy of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard (provides the same functionality as pressing PrtScn on a local computer).
10. Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow “Tab” out of the Remote Desktop controls to a control in the host program (for example, a button or a text box). Useful when the Remote Desktop controls are embedded in another (host) program.
11. Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow “Tab” out of the Remote Desktop controls to a control in the host program (for example, a button or a text box). Useful when the Remote Desktop controls are embedded in another (host) program.

Note : Ctrl+Alt+Break and Ctrl+Alt+End are available in all Remote Desktop sessions, even when you’ve set up the remote computer to recognize Windows keyboard shortcuts.

Paint

1. Ctrl+N – Create a new picture
2. Ctrl+O – Open an existing picture
3. Ctrl+S – Save changes to a picture
4. F12 – Save the picture as a new file
5. Ctrl+P – Print a picture
6. Alt+F4 – Close a picture and its Paint window
7. Ctrl+Z – Undo a change
8. Ctrl+Y – Redo a change
9. Ctrl+A – Select the entire picture
10. Ctrl+X – Cut a selection
11. Ctrl+C – Copy a selection to the Clipboard
12. Ctrl+V – Paste a selection from the Clipboard
13. Right Arrow – Move the selection or active shape right by one pixel
14. Left Arrow – Move the selection or active shape left by one pixel
15. Down Arrow – Move the selection or active shape down by one pixel
16. Up Arrow – Move the selection or active shape up by one pixel
17. Esc – Cancel a selection
18. Delete – Delete a selection
19. Ctrl+B – Bold selected text
20. Ctrl++ Increase the width of a brush, line, or shape outline by one pixel
21. Ctrl+- Decrease the width of a brush, line, or shape outline by one pixel
22. Ctrl+I  – Italicize selected text
23. Ctrl+U – Underline selected text
24. Ctrl+E – Open the Properties dialog box
25. Ctrl+W – Open the Resize and Skew dialog box
26. Ctrl+Page Up – Zoom in
27. Ctrl+Page Down – Zoom out
28. F11 – View a picture in full-screen mode
29. Ctrl+R – Show or hide the ruler
30. Ctrl+G – Show or hide gridlines
31. F10 or Alt – Display keytips
32. Shift+F10 – Show the current shortcut menu
33. F1  – Open Paint Help

WordPad

1. Ctrl+N – Create a new document
2. Ctrl+O – Open an existing document
3. Ctrl+S – Save changes to a document
4. F12 – Save the document as a new file
5. Ctrl+P – Print a document
6. Alt+F4 – Close WordPad
7. Ctrl+Z – Undo a change
8. Ctrl+Y – Redo a change
9. Ctrl+A – Select the entire document
10. Ctrl+X – Cut a selection
11. Ctrl+C – Copy a selection to the Clipboard
12. Ctrl+V – Paste a selection from the Clipboard
13. Ctrl+B – Make selected text bold
14. Ctrl+I – Italicize selected text
15. Ctrl+U – Underline selected text
16. Ctrl+= – Make selected text subscript
17. Ctrl+Shift+= – Make selected text superscript
18. Ctrl+L – Align text left
19. Ctrl+E – Align text center
20. Ctrl+R – Align text right
21. Ctrl+J – Justify text
22. Ctrl+1 – Set single line spacing
23. Ctrl+2 – Set double line spacing
24. Ctrl+5 – Set line spacing to 1.5
25. Ctrl+Shift+> – Increase the font size
26. Ctrl+Shift+< – Decrease the font size
27. Ctrl+Shift+A – Change characters to all capitals
28. Ctrl+Shift+L – Change the bullet style
29. Ctrl+D – Insert a Microsoft Paint drawing
30. Ctrl+F – Find text in a document
31. F3 – Find the next instance of the text in the Find dialog box
32. Ctrl+H – Replace text in a document
33. Ctrl+Left Arrow – Move the cursor one word to the left
34. Ctrl+Right Arrow – Move the cursor one word to the right
35. Ctrl+Up Arrow – Move the cursor to the line above
36. Ctrl+Down Arrow – Move the cursor to the line below
37. Ctrl+Home – Move to the beginning of the document
38. Ctrl+End – Move to the end of the document
39. Ctrl+Page Up – Move up one page
40. Ctrl+Page Down – Move down one page
41. Ctrl+Delete – Delete the next word
42. F10 – Display keytips
43. Shift+F10 – Show the current shortcut menu
44. F1 – Open WordPad Help

Calculator

1. Alt+1 – Switch to Standard mode
2. Alt+2 – Switch to Scientific mode
3. Alt+3 – Switch to Programmer mode
4. Alt+4 – Switch to Statistics mode
5. Ctrl+E – Open date calculations
6. Ctrl+H – Turn calculation history on or off
7. Ctrl+U – Open unit conversion
8. Alt+C – Calculate or solve date calculations and worksheets
9. F1 – Open Calculator Help
10. Ctrl+Q – Press the M- button
11. Ctrl+P – Press the M+ button
12. Ctrl+M – Press the MS button
13. Ctrl+R – Press the MR button
14. Ctrl+L – Press the MC button
15. % – Press the % button
16. F9 – Press the +/– button
17. / – Press the / button
18. * – Press the * button
19. + – Press the + button
20. – – Press the – button
21. R – Press the 1/× button
22. @ – Press the square root button
23. 0-9 – Press the number buttons (0-9)
24. = – Press the = button
25. . – Press the . (decimal point) button
26. Backspace – Press the backspace button
27. Esc – Press the C button
28. Del – Press the CE button
29. Ctrl+Shift+D – Clear the calculation history
30. F2 – Edit the calculation history
31. Up Arrow key – Navigate up in the calculation history
32. Down Arrow key – Navigate down in the calculation history
33. Esc – Cancel editing the calculation history
34. Enter – Recalculate the calculation history after editing
35. F3 – Select Degrees in Scientific mode
36. F4 – Select Radians in Scientific mode
37. F5 – Select Grads in Scientific mode
38. I – Press the Inv button in Scientific mode
39. D – Press the Mod button in Scientific mode
40. Ctrl+S – Press the sinh button in Scientific mode
41. Ctrl+O – Press the cosh button in Scientific mode
42. Ctrl+T – Press the tanh button in Scientific mode
43. ( – Press the ( button in Scientific mode
44. ) – Press the ) button in Scientific mode
45. N – Press the ln button in Scientific mode
46. ; – Press the Int button in Scientific mode
47. S – Press the sin button in Scientific mode
48. O – Press the cos button in Scientific mode
49. T – Press the tan button in Scientific mode
50. M – Press the dms button in Scientific mode
51. P – Press the pi button in Scientific mode
52. V – Press the F-E button in Scientific mode
53. X – Press the Exp button in Scientific mode
54. Q – Press the x^2 button in Scientific mode
55. Y – Press the x^y button in Scientific mode
56. # – Press the x^3 button in Scientific mode
57. L – Press the log button in Scientific mode
58. ! – Press the n! button in Scientific mode
59. Ctrl+Y – Press the y√x button in Scientific mode
60. Ctrl+B- Press the 3√x button in Scientific mode
61. Ctrl+G – Press the 10x button in Scientific mode
62. F5 – Select Hex in Programmer mode
63. F6 – Select Dec in Programmer mode
64. F7 – Select Oct in Programmer mode
65. F8 – Select Bin in Programmer mode
66. F12 – Select Qword in Programmer mode
67. F2 – Select Dword in Programmer mode
68. F3 – Select Word in Programmer mode
69. F4 – Select Byte in Programmer mode
70. K – Press the RoR button in Programmer mode
71. J – Press the RoL button in Programmer mode
72. < – Press the Lsh button in Programmer mode
73. > – Press the Rsh button in Programmer mode
74. % – Press the Mod button in Programmer mode
75. ( – Press the ( button in Programmer mode
76. ) – Press the ) button in Programmer mode
77. | – Press the Or button in Programmer mode
78. ^ – Press the Xor button in Programmer mode
79. ~ – Press the Not button in Programmer mode
80. & – Press the And button in Programmer mode
81. A-F – Press the A-F buttons in Programmer mode
82. Spacebar – Toggles the bit value in Programmer mode
83. A – Press the Average button in Statistics mode
84. Ctrl+A – Press the Average Sq button in Statistics mode
85. S – Press the Sum button in Statistics mode
86. Ctrl+S – Press the Sum Sq button in Statistics mode
87. T – Press the S.D. button in Statistics mode
88. Ctrl+T – Press the Inv S.D. button in Statistics mode
89. D – Press the CAD button in Statistics mode

Journal

1. Ctrl+N – Start a new note
2. Ctrl+O – Open a recently used note
3. Ctrl+S – Save changes to a note
4. Ctrl+Shift+V – Move a note to a specific folder
5. Ctrl+P – Print a note
6. Alt+F4 – Close a note and its Journal window
7. Ctrl+Z – Undo a change
8. Ctrl+Y – Redo a change
9. Ctrl+A – Select all items on a page
10. Ctrl+X – Cut a selection
11. Ctrl+C – Copy a selection to the Clipboard
12. Ctrl+V – Paste a selection from the Clipboard
13. Esc – Cancel a selection
14. Delete – Delete a selection
15. Ctrl+F – Start a basic find
16. Ctrl+G – Go to a page
17. F5 – Refresh find results
18. F5 – Refresh the note list
19. F6 – Toggle between a note list and a note
20. Ctrl+Shift+C – Display a shortcut menu for column headings in a note list
21. F11 – View a note in full-screen mode
22. F1 – Open Journal Help

Help viewer

1. Alt+C – Display the Table of Contents
2. Alt+N – Display the Connection Settings menu
3. F10 – Display the Options menu
4. Alt+Left Arrow – Move back to the previously viewed topic
5. Alt+Right Arrow – Move forward to the next (previously viewed) topic
6. Alt+A – Display the customer support page
7. Alt+Home – Display the Help and Support home page
8. Home – Move to the beginning of a topic
9. End – Move to the end of a topic
10. Ctrl+F – Search the current topic
11. Ctrl+P – Print a topic
12. F3 – Move the cursor to the search box