Short Cut Keys

This isn't exactly a "find" as much as sharing general knowledge.  

Ever have one of those moments where you are happily typing away and then your screen goes funky or something weird comes up.  Thank you short cuts.  If you know what you did its easy to fix it.  If not, you may just be scratching you head, or yelling at the PC ghost to leave you alone already.  

I love short cut keys and use them all the time.  Today I was typing an email, accidentally erased a whole sentence.  Wanna know what I did?  Accidentally hit Ctrl-Z.   That is the UNDO keyboard short cut.  Wanna know how to fix it?  Ctrl-Y.  That will REdo what you just Undid.   If you want some more handy short cuts, here is a whole list of them:

• Ctrl - C to copy, the text remains in the original position and you can paste it elsewhere
• Ctrl - X to cut, the text is removed from the original position and you can paste it elsewhere
• Ctrl - V to paste contents that you just copied or cut
• Ctrl -Z to undo any action you just took. This includes typing, copying pasting etc.
• Ctrl-Y to redo anything you undid

FORMATTING:

• Ctrl - I to italicize text 
• Ctrl - B to make text bold  
• Ctrl - U to underline text
• Shift - arrow key will allow you to highlight single characters
• Ctrl -shift-arrow key will allow you to highlight entire words

POSITIONING

• Home key puts your cursor at the beginning of the line of text
• End key puts your cursor at the end of the line of text
• Ctrl - Home puts your cursor at the top of the document
• Ctrl - End puts your cursor at the bottom of the document
• Ctrl -E will center text
• Ctrl - A will highlight the entire document 
• Ctrl -R will right justify text
• Ctrl - L will left justify text

Miscellaneous Shortcuts

• Ctrl - S will save your document
• Ctrl - O brings up a menu that allows you to open a different existing document. You can use your tab key navigate through this menu and down arrow key to go through drop menu items. If you tabbed past a section that you meant to stop at, hold down the shift key and then tap the tab key at the same to go back.
• Ctrl - N will bring up a new blank document
• F11 - this function key will put you in "full screen" mode.  Some people may not know how to get back to their desktop with out the bar on the bottom with the start key and icons of programs that you have open.  It also takes away your menu at the top of the screen to make more realestate for the program you are currently working in.  If you loose sight of everything (top and bottom) try hitting the F11 button.  It will put you INTO full screen mode and take out OUT OF full screen mode.

Hope this list helps :)