Hello everybody. Welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie, where I teach you different ways
that you can make money online working from home. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to
my channel for more videos just like this one. So if you are one of my subscribers, you know
that I have a whole bunch of different videos on how to become a transcriptionist. And contrary
to what a lot of people on YouTube say you do not make a lot of money as a transcriptionist.
The only way that you can make more money as a transcriptionist is to transcribe faster,
the faster and more accurately you transcribe, the more money you will make. So this is why it
is so important to become a faster typist. And one of the best ways to type faster is to learn
keyboard shortcuts. So on your Windows or your Mac computer, the majority of these keyboard shortcuts
will work. So first, I'm going to demonstrate the 10 most basic keyboard shortcuts,
and then I'm going to demonstrate another seven to you that you probably do not know, if you have
any other keyboard shortcuts you would like to share with us make sure to leave a comment in the
comment section below. So let's get started. First, I'm going to teach you two different
most quick shortcuts in case you don't already know. So if you want to highlight a single word,
you just have to quickly double click that word. So for example, if I wanted to highlight
this word sentence, I can just double click it and it will highlight that word, or this one.
And if you want to highlight a paragraph, you can triple click on a word within the paragraph
123. And you can see just like that it's highlighted this paragraph or 123. And it's
highlighted this. So this is really helpful if you want to erase something quickly, or redo a
paragraph. And so now let's get into the keyboard shortcuts. So what is a keyboard shortcut? A
keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys that execute a predefined command. So first,
I'm going to tell you about the 10 basic common keyboard shortcuts that you probably already know.
The first one is Ctrl A. So if I press Ctrl, A, you can see that this has highlighted both of
these sentences, everything in this text box. The second one is Ctrl C, I'm going to press Ctrl C on
my keyboard, and that has now copied everything that I highlighted. Now I'm going to demonstrate
the third keyboard shortcut, which is Ctrl V. And that has now pasted everything that I selected and
copied to cut a selection. Again, we can highlight it by pressing Ctrl A, and now press Ctrl X,
and that has cut this selection. If you want to undo your previous action, we can press Ctrl Zed,
and that will undo the cut that we just did. And to redo your previous action is Ctrl y.
These keyboard shortcuts don't only work in Microsoft Word, but they also work when
you're typing an email or when you're typing in your address bar or searching for something
on Google. And they also work in the majority of transcription platforms as well. So the next few
keyboard shortcuts I'm going to demonstrate using Google Docs. Again, you can use these in Microsoft
Word or almost any transcription platform. The first one is Ctrl plus F. If you press Ctrl plus
F on your keyboard, it will pop up a little search bar and you can search for any keyword in your
document. This is really helpful, let's say if you spelled a name wrong, and you need to find
all instances of that name or of that keyword, because you want to make some edits or changes.
This will help you do that. The next one is Ctrl plus b and this will bold your selected text.
The next one is control plus i and that will italicize your selected text.
And finally control plus you and that will underline your selected text. So these are the
most 10 basic common shortcuts. And now I'm going to get into some of the lesser known shortcuts.
Okay, so the first lesser known shortcut is Shift plus arrow. You can see my cursor is right here
after the word King in my demo, if I hold down shift on my keyboard and press either the left or
right arrow key, you can see that it's highlighting character by character. I
can go to the left and I can also go to the right now if you also hold down Ctrl so you're holding
down shift on your keyboard and also control. You can highlight word by word. So you can See,
right now I'm highlighting word by word to the right. And I can also go back to the left as
well. And this is helpful if you want to erase a paragraph, or whatever else. Now another one
I had no idea about is Ctrl plus backspace, and that deletes entire words. So again,
let's say I was typing and I want to erase this word here, costliest, instead of going
one at a time, like this with my backspace, I can press Ctrl plus backspace and delete
the entire word. Now, the 13th lesser known shortcut is ctrl, plus the left or right arrow,
and that will move the cursor word by word. So I'm going to hold down Control and plus the
right or left arrow, and you can see it's moving the cursor. And again, like I showed you before,
if you hold down shift as well, you can highlight these entire words.
Okay, now we're going to look at the 14th lesser known shortcut, which is Shift plus Ctrl,
plus the up or down arrow. And what this does is it highlights full paragraphs.
So let's say I put my cursor right here at the end of said, and I'm holding down Shift
and Control and my up arrow, and you can see it highlights that full paragraph. And if I go down,
it highlights the paragraph below. I can go up and then up again, and it will keep highlighting
paragraph after paragraph either in the up or down direction, depending on what arrow you press.
The next keyboard shortcut is number 15. You can press Delete instead of backspace.
So right now, let's say I have my cursor right here after then, if I press backspace,
it will erase the end. However, if I press Delete, instead of backspace, it will erase the character
in front of the cursor, instead of going back. The next keyboard shortcut is ctrl plus delete,
and that deletes the full word to the right of your cursor. So again, Ctrl plus Delete.
You can see it deletes all of the full words to the right of your cursor.
And the last lesser known shortcut is ctrl plus Shift plus v. And what this does is it paste as
plain text. This is very important, especially when you're doing transcription work or something
else. And the reason for this is that you want to make sure you are pasting plain text and not all
of the formatting of whatever it is that you are pasting. So let's say I want to copy this
word of the day. So I've got this and I've pressed Ctrl C to copy. And I want to paste that into my
Google Docs document. If I just go Ctrl V to paste, well, you can see that it has pasted
all of the formatting that matched, you know with dictionary.com. And I don't want that formatting,
I want it to be plain formatting that will match my document, as you can see here. So
I'm going to press Ctrl Z to undo that. And what we're going to do instead of just Ctrl V is Ctrl
plus Shift plus V, and you can see that it has pasted it in the same formatting that I already
have in my document. And that way you're not going to have inconsistencies of font size font type,
the alignment everything is going to match your document and you aren't going to run
into any difficulties. Okay, guys, so I hope you enjoyed this presentation on the 17 most
essential keyboard shortcuts that you need to know to type faster. If you have any other
shortcuts that you want to share with us. Make sure to leave a comment in the comment section.
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