Quick computer tips

There are a lot of quick tips that will help you with your computer. You might already know some of them but others may be new.

* Any keyboard shortcuts should involve pressing and holding down the keys in the order you see the keystrokes (ie. Ctrl + X means press and hold Ctrl and then press X).

• I'll start with the one you probably already know; Cut (Ctrl + X), Copy (Ctrl + C) & Paste (Ctrl + V).
• Another one you'll probably know, press the Print Screen button which will take a snapsnot of your screen that you can paste as an image into Word, Paint, etc. But don't forget to move your mouse pointer out of the way!
• To cycle through all of your running programs, press Alt + Tab.
• To close down a program, press Alt + F4
• Most programs will accept Ctrl + A as a Select All. This also works in Windows directories.
• Following on from the previous point, to close documents within Word, Excel, etc and tabs within a web browser, press Ctrl + F4.
• In many programs, including all Microsoft Office programs, will allow you to change text to bold (Ctrl + B), italic (Ctrl + I) and underline (Ctrl + U).
• Pressing F1 will usually launch a program's help feature.
• Pressing Ctrl + Z will usually perform an Undo operation within programs.
• The Run Program dialogue box can be accessed by pressing the Windows key (ÿ) + R.
• To lock your computer, instead of having to press Ctrl + Alt + Del then clicking on the correct button, you can press the Windows key (ÿ) + L.