- [Instructor] Let's talk about keyboard commands,
also known as keyboard shortcuts.
These are actions that you can trigger
using a few keys on the keyboard.
I recommend you start on this webpage.
Now, at this point, I don't see keyboard commands
for Windows 11, but that's totally fine.
Windows 10 shortcuts are almost exactly the same.
Now, if you don't already know,
most of these keyboard shortcuts require you to hold
one or more keys on your keyboard, then tap another key.
So for example, the copy command here.
That requires you to hold the Control key on your keyboard,
then tap the letter C.
So, it's important that you look at your keyboard
and identify the modifier keys.
These are keys like Control, Alt, Shift, or the Windows key,
which you need to hold down
to trigger these keyboard commands.
They're pretty easy to find
because they should be labeled on your computer.
So just to see this in action,
I'm going to quickly jump through
these copy and paste commands,
because I think those are things that
you're going to use on Windows pretty often.
And to do that, I'm just going to switch over
to this document I have in Microsoft Word.
Now, it's perfectly fine if you're not familiar with
Microsoft Word, because these keyboard commands work
in a lot of applications.
So first, what I want to do is copy some text
from this document and paste it into another document.
So I'll need to select that text,
so what I'll do is place my mouse cursor
on one side of the text, hold my mouse button down,
and then drag all the way to the end of that text
and let go.
Now that that text is selected,
I can use the keyboard command to copy it,
and that keyboard command is Control C.
So I'll hold the Control key on my keyboard
then tap the letter C.
Now at first, it looks like nothing has happened,
but it did happen.
What it did was, it copied that text to the system memory.
And now, I can switch over to another document
and I can use the command to paste
what I have in the memory.
And that keyboard command for paste is Control V.
So I'll hold the Control key, tap the letter V,
and it pastes that text.
So you can copy and paste texts like this in Microsoft Word,
but you can copy and paste text and other things
in other applications using those same keyboard shortcuts.
Now of course, teaching every keyboard command
really doesn't make sense,
so I do recommend you check out this webpage
and try to find some commands that you will use in Windows.
Just one quick note, some of these commands require you to
hit a Function key on your keyboard.
Those are those keys across the top of the keyboard
labeled with the letter F and a number.
Now on some computers, usually laptops,
Function keys are set up to control screen brightness
or volume level.
If that's the case, when you want to use them
for traditional keyboard commands,
then you will need to hold the FN key.
The FN key is a modifier key that only appears on keyboards
where the function keys have two jobs.
So if you wanted to use this keyboard command,
F2 to rename something, if you were using a laptop,
you might have to hold the FN key, then hit F2.
A small but important detail for some people.
So keep in mind, keyboard commands are completely optional.
They are convenient and useful, but they're not required.
If you want to use them,
this list of commands may be very helpful.