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Did you know that using keyboard shortcuts can save time and effort compared to only using mouse? If you can use both keyboard shortcuts and mouse, it can really speed up. Not speed up your computer but speed up what you do on the computer. One of my mentor taught me this when I just started to use the computer. At first I find it very troublesome and slow because I am not used to it. But now, I never regret taking the time to learn and memorize keyboard shortcuts. Not only that, I even look like a geek who is really into computers when I use keyboard shortcuts infront of my customers.

All operating systems and a lot of softwares has keyboard shortcuts. You can either go to the official website to hunt for the keyboard shortcuts, or you can just go to one website that has a database of keyboard shortcuts for your convenience.


KeyXL is the largest online database of keyboard shortcuts in the world. Their keyboard shortcut database is searchable by software program and covers all the major operating environments including Windows, Macintosh, Linux and browser-based applications.

The people at KeyXL are constantly adding new programs to their keyboard shortcuts database. There is a form for you to add a new application to the KeyXL keyboard shortcut database. However, I wonder why isn’t there a form for us to conveniently submit keyboard shortcuts to them? For example, I checked the list of keyboard shortcuts for Windows XP and I couldn’t find CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Press this 3 keys simultaneously will launch Windows Task Manager.

A great idea and website but hopefully they’ll have more complete shortcut keys for an application.

[ Visit KeyXL Keyboard Shortcuts ]