Keyboard Shortcut Keys I Use

Keyboard shortcut keys
I can't live without these babies.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox and Internet in general:

1) There are times when nothing will do but a heart.
Not the word. The icon: i♥u.
alt + 3. {Easy huh? ♥♥♥}

2) I open my pictures folder ALL. THE. TIME. Here's a tutorial on how to create a keyboard shortcut to open your pictures folder.

3) My new favorite (this is thanks to the fabulous @ErinJeany who promised a tutorial complete with screenshots so-go-bug-her-about-that-eh?) is to download the FireFox Add-on called: InFormEnter. It helps with all that blog-commenting-form-entering especially helpful if you have a long blog title!!

4) F5, I swear the twitter world kept this secret from me! F5 is 'refresh'. As in when you are on your replies page in Twitter: F5 will refresh your replies! (And any other webpage.)

5) F6, I just found this one too. Jumps you up to the http:// box when you are in a webpage. I LOVE that!

6) M-dash. What? You know that longish dash thing? Like this—... {alt + 0151}

7) á: alt + 0225 { Voilá!}

8) è: alt + 0232 {When you must type Renèe}

These are some more common ones you might already know, but just in case:

Control T: Opens new tab
Control+shift+T: Opens recently closed tab (need this ALL the time!)
Control W: Closes the 26 open tabs I find opened and I don't always know how?!
(Would love to be able to highlight and close more than one at a time tho??)
Control A: Select all
Control C: Copy selected
Control V: Paste Selected
Control F: Open Search Bar
Control J: Open downloads box (good when you need to revisit a recent download)
Control K: Switch to google search bar
Escape button: Stops loading a page
And a whole slew more @: Arnold's Site.
*UPDATE
Jenn from You Know That Blog has added some more 'alt codes' (I didn't even know they were called that!)

© alt+0169
° degree alt+176
¢ alt+0162

Here is a list of more 'alt codes'.



Does anyone know how to get blogger.com to create a shortcut for entering a link? {It's control-K in word?}

Photo Credit: Kathryn_Rotondo

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hey thinks for those there were alot I didn't know. Alt + any number will get you some sort of symbol I don't know them all though
I know some of these, but now I'll have to try out some new ones. Thanks for posting them.
I did not know about the heart I always wondered...
Great tutorial. I've always wondered how to make the heart.
Awesome, Carissa! I stumbled across a website that had all kinds of character codes/short cuts listed a while back. Now, I cannot find it. Thanks for posting this!

If I find that page, I'll send you the link.
This post is brilliance! Tricks of the trade and we bloggers are @ our computers enough to know it! I <3 this!!
PS: I tried the heart icon and it didn't work. Maybe this will...
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1 reply · active 814 weeks ago
Are you on a mac? May have to search for what the codes are? Otherwise I'm not sure why the Heart code wouldn't work??
Great list! Keyboard short-cuts help soooo much.
~Susan
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing these! Boy they are definitely going to make my life easier :)
These are great! I just downloaded the InFormEnter from Firefox. Thanks!
This is a FANTASTIC post - thanks so much! There were a couple that I didn't know about that make you my new best friend. Seriously. Going to download that InFormEnter now...

I use the degree sign a lot ° [alt +0176] as I boast or whine about the weather, and of course copyright © [alt+0169] and a few others. I printed out a sheet with the most used alt codes and laminated it, then taped it to the shelf my keyboard resides on. I need only peek under it for the appropriate code if I can't remember it. I'm OCD like that though!

Just my 2¢ [alt+0162] ;)
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WOW!! thanks for your 2¢ !! I'm totally adding your alt key ideas to the post!!
Tell me you put the "em dash" in there especially for me! I know you did and I heart you for it. I realize I'm a little psychotic about them :).

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