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Personally I find the most useful to be 'ctrl z' which undoes whatever you did last. It has saved me many times but here are just a few more you can use on most computers!
Ctrl F: This brings up a box for finding words on the page. It is really useful for research as you can type in what you are looking for and it will find all the sentences with the words you have typed in. Honestly writing articles would take twice as long if it wasn't for this little gem.
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Ctrl A: This one selects all the text on a page, it's pretty good if you are writing an article and have multiple word pages open and you want to combine them into one. It is a great time saver to be honest and I would hate to live without it.
Ctrl X: This is a shortcut for the cut tool. It will cut what you have selected. I discovered this by accident and thought I had deleted all my work but fortunately I still had ctrl z! This is a pretty handy short cut but I still think that Ctrl C (which is copy) is just as useful.
Ctrl V: There isn't all that much use copying something unless you are going to paste it is there? That's exactly what ctrl V does: Paste. This is probably one of my favorites since i no longer have to right click to paste and I haven't since I learned this nifty little trick.
Ctrl P: this one prints the page. probably at it's most useful in a word program but can be pretty useful when surfing the web. It is really just a time saver but it's a good one and I can safely say that I have never gone the long way about printing something since learning it.
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Two other useful ones for typing anyway are 'end' and 'home'. End will take you to the end of the line you are on and home will take you to the start. they have their own buttons usually located on the far right of the keyboard. Also Ctrl home will take you to the start of your document and ctrl end will take you to the end!
And if you ever get really stuck and you are using a windows computer the help button is F1
These are just a few of the hundred of keyboard shortcuts out there. If you are really determined to learn them all I will leave some links below where you can go to read up on them.
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