Keyboard shortcut
Alternatively referred to as a shortcut, accelerator key, hot key, or mnemonic, a keyboard shortcut is one or more keys used to perform a menu function or other common functions in an application, usually also accessible through a mouse-click.
Keyboard shortcuts usually are not as intuitive as point-and-click mouse actions; however, they can be utilized by the novice users in frequently used programs to get to locations much faster than using the mouse.
How to do a keyboard shortcut
To do a keyboard shortcut requires that you press two or more keys at the same time on the keyboard. On Computer Hope and many other pages we will list the two keys with a plus symbol between them indicating that both keys need to be pressed at the same time. For example, the keyboard shortcut to select all the text on a page or document is CTRL+A, which means press and hold down the CTRL key and then press the A key.
Keyboard
shortcuts are not universal. A keyboard shortcut that works in Microsoft
Windows will not always work on the Apple MacOS and keyboard shortcut that
works in Microsoft Word may not work in Open Office.
- Computer keyboard shortcuts.
- Top 10 keyboard shortcuts everyone should know.
- How do I create a Windows shortcut key?
Also see: Hotkey, Keyboard definitions, Programmable function key, Shortcut, Shortcut key, StickyKeys