What is your most frequently used keystroke?

Question

Or a combination thereof.  It may be the one that you can hit in the dark and is obvious during the light of day.  Just wondering.

Answer 1

Ctrl + Z.  It undoes a mistake I've just made! :)

Comments

Ctrl C and Ctrl V, with Ctrl Z a close third.

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I agree Melanie and Ros, CTRL C and V are in my top three.  CTRL Z looks good too.

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And the SHIFT and SPACE keys.  I have wear spots on these keys on my keyboard as well as the A, E and S keys.  LOL

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CTRL X is good too.

Answer 2

Tab. Gets me to the next spot.

Answer 3

On an Apple Desktop

command + number	switch among tabs in a browser window
command + tab	switch between two active applications
option + space bar	inserts a hard space
control + left or right arrow keys	switch between desktops
command + "a"  command + "c"	select all on a page  copy selected text
command + "v"	paste previously copied text
command + up arrow  command + down arrow	goes to top of page  goes to bottom of page
option + up arrow  option + down arrow	page up  page down

 Note: The table cannot be edited to add additional rows. Another G2G feature that doesn't work!

Comments

This is incredible (as in amazingly good or beautiful).  Thank you Tommy.

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Yep and command + shift + 4 to make a screen shot.

Answer 4

Wonderful to have some feedback and great tips for me as a newbie but is there really a best answer to this question?

Answer 5

The backspace to undo all of my typos! 

Comments

Great answer - I love my backspace key and it should be bigger and glow in the dark.  It is one of my top fives, for sure.

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For sure, Robin! 

Answer 6

Ctrl A - select All – sometimes you just have to have everything.

Comments

Thanks for that, Wayne.  That's a new one to me. I'll remember it.

Answer 7

 Apart from the most common letters, I think it could be :

I use : for lists of children and  in references after the archive reference but before a transcription of the text. I use lots of them  in will transcripts to separate bequests. 

Sometimes to make it look right it ends up as ::.

Answer 8

Ctrl-V used a bit more than Ctrl-C (paste the copy into more than one)

Some other ones, when writing bios, are things I set up in the auto text expander browser extension such as ct8 for 'County', ibi for 'is buried in', wwd for 'registered for the World War I draft' and rsr instead of the Cite button.

Answer 9

I just read this article today:  https://www.foxnews.com/tech/7-smart-keyboard-shortcuts-save-time