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How To Use Keyboard Shortcuts

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Computer Skills 101 - Using keyboard shortcuts to speed up your work

Here's how to create a keyboard shortcut for a program in Windows XP:

Unfortunately, this feature works only with program shortcuts on the desktop or the Start menu. This feature does not work if the desktop shortcut is a shortcut to another shortcut.

How to create a keyboard shortcut:

  1. Right-click the desktop shortcut, and then click Properties
  2. Click the shortcut TAB, and put your cursor in the "shortcut key" field.
  3. Press the keyboard combination that you want to use instead of clicking the icon on the desktop. The key combination has to be two of the following: CTRL, ALT, or SHIFT --PLUS-- a character key (letter, number or symbol)
  4. Click OK.

For example, to open Dreamweaver, I used CTRL+ALT+D

Note:


• The default combination is CTRL+ALT; if you press only a character key, Windows XP automatically adds CTRL+ALT.

• These shortcuts do not work if it conflicts with a keyboard combination that is used in the program that is currently active.