7 Keyboard Shortcuts that will Save You Time!

If you want to save time then you need to know your keyboard shortcuts! Windows gives us so many ways to be more efficient with a variety of keyboard shortcuts. So in this video, Scott Friesen shares 7 of his favorite Windows combinations so you can spend less time with your mouse and more time doing!

00:00 Switching between programs
01:44 Snap windows to sides (split-screen)
02:36 Open pinned taskbar apps
04:02 Search for programs and files
04:52 Take a screenshot or snippet
07:15 Viewing the clipboard history
08:55 Open the emoji library

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Scott Friesen is a productivity specialist and founder of Simpletivity training and consulting. He is also a prolific public speaker, workshop leader, and time management coach.

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[DemetriPanici]

I always try to learn keyboard shortcuts for specific apps but I haven’t bothered for plain old windows. Great video!

[habibmohammed]

Your channel is like an ice cream van. Everyone is delighted by what you share.

[johnvodopija]

Rather than pressing Windows + S I just press the Windows key and start typing the name of the app I want and press enter. It is very fast once you get used to it. Good tips thank you 👍😎🇦🇺

[andreasmaximus]

I often copy text from a website or PDF and need to paste it without formatting. Ctrl + Alt + V. Great videos Scott!

[stevesnyder]

Windows + E opens File Explorer. I use this to quickly open multiple folders for dragging files around.

[chrislai]

O.M.G. I am lazy and is all about least amount of movement to do the same thing. I love the mouse, but I’m all about able to do things without moving away from the keyboard. I only know about the first one….and I thought that is the most “duh” shortcuts…but….I know people who actually didn’t know about that. Thank you for sharing, you are a life saver!

[darius-b]

Even I tend to forget how really 'productive' keyboard shortcuts are. Thanks Scott for the reminder! 🙂

[harshagarwal]

I really love using image screenshot one, I used to use capture the screen and then save it and then select the file from the file explorer, You will save me a lot of time. Thanks. God Bless You

[JohnDeir]

Windows key + W gets a white board and your last snippet and you can highlight/edit/add to them. Also my best shortcut situation is right click on the Windows taskbar and include my most used folder as a shortcut. What I like about this is when I click on it, it opens up a tree form of my subfolders/files and I can quickly hover and look into all my subfolders/files to see and open what I'm looking for and I can cut and paste/drag and drop so fast to move files/folders where I nest them. Super fast!!

[maryscott]

These were new to me and very helpful! Thank you!

[sudarrshang]

Wow windows+v to access clipboard is new to me gonaa help a lot I feel.

[bgkrijger]

Working with multiple screens i often use Window+P to choose screen setup.
Is there a list somewhere of all shortcuts?

[tanjaryan]

Great shortcuts! I love using shortcuts but didn't know all of them. They will help me a lot to simplify my work! Thanks Scott!

[johnroydelacruz]

I appreciate ur vid. Simple but informative

[silver]

Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V have become crucial for me. Both for work & personal use. The 1st couple times, I kept forgetting & using Ctrl + P. Annoying printing stuff would pop up.
But if anyone didn’t know, control & P is for PRINT. Could be useful.

[karthikrajgopal]

Thanks sir, I use window + E to open my computer or my pc icon, Windows + down arrow to minimise all open application

[masterphotog]

Great tutorial, keep up the good work.

[ianballantine]

Great video thanks - always learning something.
Ctrl+Shift+V will paste text as plain text.
Except in Office! Here the shortcut is Ctrl-Alt-V to bring up some choices or just past (Ctrl-V) then select options using the Tooltip icon that appears at the end of your pasted text
Thanks again

[JavisoGaming]

Great list. I prefer CTRL ESC to open the search box.

[akhilchopde]

For the fourth one you can just press windows button and start typing whatever you wanna search