My Favorite Shortcuts
Using mouse is inefficient and slow - for detailed explanation go here
These are my favorite (those I actually use) shortcuts.
[Ed. - I am updating it constantly as I find more useful shortcuts I actually use]
- Visual Studio
- Ctrl + Shift + B - build
- Ctrl + Tab - switching between open files
- Ctrl + Shift + F - find in files (actually FindStr inside Visual Studio)
- Ctrl + KK - bookmarking
- Ctrl + KW - show bookmarks windows
- Ctrl + Pg UP/Pg Dn - switch between ASPX markup and design view
- Ctrl + i - incremental search, try it - very cool. Thanks, Memi, for sharing
- Outlook
- Ctrl + Shift + M - new email
- Ctrl + Shift + S - new post to folder (posts are my tool of trade to manage my pipeline - My Pipeline Is My Inbox)
- Ctrl + 1 - emails
- Ctrl + 2 - calendar
- Ctrl + try other numbers...
- Ctrl + R - reply
- Ctrl + Shift + R - reply all
- Ctrl + F - forward mail item
- Ctrl + Enter - send email
- Word
- Ctrl + Shift + C - copy style
- Ctrl + Shift + V - paste style
- Ctrl + ] - enlarge font size
- Ctrl + [ - decrease font size
- Shift + F5 - go to last edited location
- F4 - repeat last action, very handy when refactoring
- Windows
- Windows + R - bring up "Run" dialog.
- Ctrl + Shift + Esc - bring up task manager
- Windows + E - run explorer
- Notepad
- Ctrl + G - got to line number, avail also in other products
- Ctrl + H - Find/Replace
- Windows Explorer
- F2 - rename file/folder
- Shift + Delete - unrecoverable delete of item (actually this one does unrecoverable delete - SDelete)
- Internet Explorer
- Type domain name and then Ctrl + Enter - wraps domain with "https://www." ... ".com"
- The all time winner
- Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V
[Ed. - the following added from Chris online]
What are yours?
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Comments
- Anonymous
April 29, 2007
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April 29, 2007
Mitch!What a treasure!! - "I must admit I wasn't aware of it..." :) - THANKS for sharingHey, is not it all about with this blogshpere? Sharing, finding your network.Great stuff. - Anonymous
May 04, 2007
Windows :-Windows + D - Minimizes all windows so you can see desktopVS :-CTRL + K,D - Formats the code-CRTL + M,M - Closes and opens current region or collapsable block-CTRL + SPACE - Intelisence rocks-CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE - again intelisence showing the method parameters-type foreach|if|for and TAB+TAB - here you have ready foreach|if|for statement to completehttp://blogs.xcr-bg.com/2007/02/01/dont-touch-the-mouse/probably you can more usefull shortcuts for VS - Anonymous
May 04, 2007
Chris, loved cntr+K+D!! Thanks for the other links in your post to posters!! - Anonymous
May 21, 2007
Information is all over – emails, blogs, notes, posts. While I consolidate incoming information in my - Anonymous
June 05, 2007
Visual Studio 2005 has powerful search capabilities. One of my favorites is "Find in Files". Just hit