The Wizard's Hot Keys/Shortcuts

Most Applications (not all of them).  Lots of apps have their own shortcut keys.... use them.

   Arrow keys
   and the PgUp,
   and PgDn, keys  = Use these when scrolling through text or a window.
   
   Tab                     = To go the next button on a window (very useful).
                                 Also, go to the next field when filling out a form.
   Sh+Tab               = Go backwards through buttons and fields.
   End, or Ctl+End  = Go to end of document/window, or the end of a line.
   Home                 = Go to the beginning of the document/window or the beginning of a line.
   Ctl+F4                = On an application that opens other windows, it will close that window but leave the main
                                application running.
 

   File Shortcuts:

   Alt,f                      = Opens the file menu, if you look at the bottom, you will see numbers
                                  of files/pages you have been to previously.  Simply enter the number, 
                                  and that file/page will be opened.  In Navigator use Alt,g.
   Ctl+p                     = Print
   Ctl+o                     = Open
   Ctl+s                     = Save
   Ctl+n                     = New
 	
   Editing Shortcuts:

   Sh+arrow keys     = Used to select text, or anything else, like a lot of files in a folder. Very Powerful.
   Ctl+a                    = Select everything in the window.
   Ctl+f                      = Find
   Ctl+c                     = Copy selected text
   Ctl+x                     = Cut selected text
   Ctl+v                     = Paste text previously copied or cut. 
   Ctl+z                     = Undo the last actions, used when editing (will often save your butt).
                                    Also under the edit menu, Alt,e, u.
   Ctl+y                    = Redo/Repeat the last action. Also under the edit menu, Alt, e, r (Thanks BizMarko1!).   
   Shift+End            = Select all text from the cursor, to the end of the line. This works on URL's in browsers also!
   Shift+Home        = Select all text from the cursor, to the beginning of the line, or URL's in browsers.

'Open' and 'Save As' window shortcuts:

	Use Sh+Tab, Tab, Enter, and the arrow keys to navigate through these windows.
	The Tab, Sh+Tab, Enter, and arrow keys, when used in combination are
	 very useful to navigate in most other areas as well.  You will have to experiment
	 with this to understand how it works.

 Netscape/Mozilla Navigator.  M$(microshaft) has stolen a lot of these(it's what they do best), so most now work in IE:
  
   Any letter/number
   sequence              =This starts a search in the current page. It's called 'find as you type'. You can use this to 
                                   look for a word for example.  Just start typing the word. It will automatically go to the
                                   letter sequence you have typed. You can set the options of this in preferences. (Alt,e,e).
                                   After the word is found, you can hit F3 to find subsequent occurences of the word in the page. 

    Esc                     = This key is good to hit after a page has loaded for awhile, and little
                                 to nothing is showing on the screen.  It stops the loading, but makes
                                 everything that has loaded so far VISIBLE.
   Sh+Tab               = Highlights the URL line, if you haven't tabbed yet.  Then you can
                                 copy it to paste somewhere else. If you want to go to a site called
                                www.neatsite.com, just type in neatsite, hit Enter, and Navigator will fill
                                in all the http/www stuff. This works on older versions. Now, it brings you
                                to the Netscape site, where you will find links to sites with that word in them...boo.
                                However, if you type in neatsite.com, it will fill in the http stuff, and take you there.

   Alt+d                    = Highlights/gets you to the URL/address line. Pretty useful!. (Thanks rychonux!!).
   Ctl+r                    = Reload page. (When it gets hung, or to get the latest version.) 
   F5                        = Reload page.  (Thanks Stig!!!).
   Alt+Arrow(left/rt)  = Go back to previous page, or forward to subsequent page
   Backspace Key    = Go back to previous page. 
   Ctl+h                   = Look at history, useful to hunt down a place you've been before
   Ctl+f                    = Find
   Ctl+Sh+1             = Message Center
   Ctl+2                   = Gets you into your e-mail In Box. 
   Ctl+t                    = When in InBox, check for new e-mails.
   Ctl+m                  = Compose new e-mail
   
   Ctl+n                   = New browser window. This is real handy when on the web, because
                                 you can be at several sites at once, and switch between them with
                                the next hot key:

   Ctl+ +/-                 = Ctl++ Increases text size, Ctl+- Decreases the size of the text of the window! Makes pages easier to read.
   
   Ctl+tab                = Cycle through multiple Navigator windows that are open. Does the same as Alt+Tab,
                                  but without the little window, and just cycles through open Navigator windows.

   Ctl+d                   =  Create bookmark of current page. However, use the method below instead!
   Ctl+Sh+d             = Create bookmark and at the same time FILE it in the appropriate folder!
                                  Folders are a really GOOD thing to have in
                                  bookmarks to organize them.  If you don't stay on top of this, you
                                  will soon have a huge list of bookmarks, and will spend a lot of time
                                  trying to find a particular one  
   Ctl+b                   = Open bookmarks   
   End                     = When in bookmark window, goes to last bookmark which is the one
                                 last added with Ctl+d.

   Alt, e, k                = When in bookmarks, opens the bookmark description window. Edit this
   Ctl+i                        to make that bookmark's title more meaningful. Replaced by Ctl+i in Netscape 7.01/Mozilla.
	

   Shift+Left Click    = On a link, opens a save dialog, so you can save that page to disk.
   Right Click           = On an image, opens a menu to let you save it to disk, among other things.
                                      On a page, lets you send it to a person via e-mail, save the whole page to your disk, plus other things.
                                      On a link, lets you open it in a new window. 

	Btw, do NOT hit Ctl+n while in the bookmarks window, in the new Netscape 7.01. It will alphabetize them all, and there's
   no way to get it back to  the order they were in before. SO, make backups of your bookmarks.html file periodically, so 
   you can copy it back over the alphabetized one. I've told Netscape about this bug, so they might fix it.  
						 
 The following work for e-mail and newsgroups as well:
   
   Ctl+t                    = Get new e-mails and news headers (When in Message Center, or In Box)
   Ctl+r                    = Reply to e-mail, if you are reading an e-mail
   Ctl+enter             = Send e-mail
   
Misc Hot Keys:

MS Word

   Shift alt d and shift alt t brings up the date and time in word. (Thanks Marty!)
   Ctl+h                   = Opens Find and Replace window in Word Processing and Excel. Very useful! (Thanks Jester!)

EXCEL

    In Excel, you can use ALT+Enter to force a hard return whilst staying within the field.
    This means you don't need to keep hitting 'space' to make the text scroll down to the next page (as I always use to do!) (Thanks Mark Alldridge!)
    Ctl+PageUp/Down: To move along Tabs (Thanks dff48!)
    Ctl+End to go to last item in the spreadsheet. (Thanks dff48!)

Others

    Here is another time saver:  When you want to select a range of files from a window,
    hold down the shift key, then click on the first file, and then the last file.  All the files
    in between will be selected.  You can also hold down the shift key, while you use the
    down/up arrows to select a lot of files. If you want to select separate multiple files, hold down
    the Ctl key while you click on the files.  You can use shift to select a range of files and then
    use Ctl to unselect some of them.
    
    By the way, when dragging files from folder to folder, I suggest you 
    ALWAYS right-click drag. You will then get a choice whether to copy, 
    or move the files.  If you left-click drag, it will always move them. (i.e. remove them from the 
    folder they came from).  It is safer to copy them, then delete them later from the originating
    folder. (They are now in the Recycle bin, where you can recover them if you need to).
    Example:  You move a file to a floppy, and then the floppy goes bad.  The file
    has now gone into "bit land".  

    You can also Ctl+c, or Ctl+x, highlighted files in one folder, and Ctl+v them
    into another one, instead of dragging them.  
    
    Besides, right-click drag lets you make shortcuts.
    
    Another suggestion:  Backup Backup Backup...........keep lots of them and do it often.

    In addition, set your cursor repeat rate to all the way fast, and the repeat delay to all
    the way slow.  Look under Keyboard in the Control Panel. (W, s, c).
    
    One last trick:  All those shortcuts on your desk top can be accessed by custom key
    strokes.  Right click on one, hit r, go to the shortcut tab, hit alt+k, then hold down Ctl.  You
    will notice that the Shortcut Key field now has Ctl+Alt+ in it.  At that point hit some letter
    or number of your choice, and release the Ctl key.  From then on, any time you hit 
    Ctl+Alt+? (? is your number or letter) it will be the same as clicking on that shortcut. You can also
    use Ctl+Sh+some number/letter. Then you can instantly access it by Ctl+Sh+that number/letter. I think the
    Ctl+Sh+some number/letter method is better/easier to use.
    These work, EVEN if you are in some other program/app.  Sure beats browsing through the start menu!
    
    And here's the one I think is the best for making the Windows desktop truly your own. You can
    drag all those icons to various places on your desk top, and they will stay there. You have to first
    right click anywhere on the desktop, go to 'Arrange Icons' and uncheck 'Auto Arrange'. Then
    you can add a nice picture to the center, and have all your icons around the perimeter of your
    screen, perhaps arranged by function. Then you'll snicker at all the people that have them lined
    up on the left side....he he. 
    
    When you get really good at using all these keys, you'll look just like those hackers or
    computer gurus in all those Hollywood movies!