keyboard shortcuts can dramatically
speed up your work
for example if you select a portion of
text
you can quickly cut it by pressing ctrl
x
or command x if you're on a mac
you can then paste the text into a new
spot by pressing ctrl
or command v so
that is how you can use shortcuts but
how can you discover new ones
one method is to look for them as you're
using google docs
for example when i open the edit menu
i see that most of the commands have a
keyboard shortcut that i could use
instead
another way to discover shortcuts is to
open the full list
by going to help keyboard shortcuts
of course you could also use the
shortcut shown here
it's ctrl slash if you're on windows and
command slash on a mac
a new window will open displaying a list
of keyboard shortcuts
the list is divided into different
categories to help you find what you're
looking for
of course if you're looking for a
specific shortcut
you can search for it by name i use the
word count
tool a lot so i'll search to see if
there's a shortcut
there is it looks like the shortcut on
the windows computer is ctrl
shift c let's give it a try
i'll close out of the shortcuts window
and press
ctrl shift c
the word count dialog appears
before we finish i want to show you one
more thing in the keyboard shortcuts
window
i'll open it again this time by using
the shortcut
control slash while this window shows
most of the shortcuts it doesn't
actually show
all of them to see the full list
you have to click view all in help
center
in the bottom left corner the webpage
that opens shows
every google docs shortcut across all
the different platforms
there are shortcuts for all sorts of
different tasks
there are even shortcuts that you can do
with your mouse
with so many shortcuts available it's
not really
possible to memorize all of them instead
if you find yourself repeating an action
over and over again
you should look to see if there's a
shortcut that can help you out
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