While pondering my computer keyboard the other day, it dawned upon me that all the Ctrl key combinations for all the alphabet keys are nearly fully taken by commonly-used commands. Is it true? Why not find out!
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\nHere are the Ctrl keys from A to Z for most programs, as best as I can recall them from memory:<\/p>\n
Ctrl+A, the Select All command<\/p>\n
Ctrl+B, make text Bold<\/p>\n
Ctrl+C, Copy selected text or graphics<\/p>\n
Ctrl+D, not commonly used by summons the Font dialog box in a few applications, such as Microsoft Word<\/p>\n
Ctrl+E, not commonly used, but performs full text justification in Microsoft Word<\/p>\n
Ctrl+F, Find command<\/p>\n
Ctrl+G, Find again command in some applications; the Goto command in Microsoft Word<\/p>\n
Ctrl+H, Search and Replace command<\/p>\n
Ctrl+I, make text Italics<\/p>\n
Ctrl+J, full text justification in Microsoft Word, otherwise not widely used<\/p>\n
Ctrl+K, not used for anything really<\/p>\n
Ctrl+L, not often used, though does full text justification in Microsoft Word<\/p>\n
Ctrl+M, not often used, though does a one tab-stop indent for paragraphs in Microsoft Word<\/p>\n
Ctrl+N, New document<\/p>\n
Ctrl+O, Open file<\/p>\n
Ctrl+P, Print<\/p>\n
Ctrl+Q, not often used<\/p>\n
Ctrl+R, not often used, though sets right text justification in many programs<\/p>\n
Ctrl+S, Save<\/p>\n
Ctrl+T, not often used; in Microsoft Word formats the paragraph to a hanging indent<\/p>\n
Ctrl+U, Underline text<\/p>\n
Ctrl+V, Paste text or graphics<\/p>\n
Ctrl+W, Close window command<\/p>\n
Ctrl+X, Cut selected text or graphics<\/p>\n
Ctrl+Y, Redo command in most applications<\/p>\n
Ctrl+Z, Undo<\/p>\n
Apparently the dog keys are D, E, J, K, L, M, Q, R, and T. I’m sure that some programs make use of them, but that command assignment isn’t really consistent between applications.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’m not implying that every dang doodle key on the keyboard must have a specific command equivalent. It’s nice that of the 26 alphabet keys on the keyboard there are some 17 that have pretty consistent assignments. That makes using a computer easier because it doesn’t take that long to learn a new program.<\/p>\n
Anyone else recall the old days, back in the 1980s where each program used its own unique key combination for everything? Microsoft Word once used Esc, F, T, S to save, WordPerfect used F10, each program had its own combination. So, it’s nifty to take whatever consistency we can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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