Merilee’s Tips & Tricks for Reporters: Take Control of your Keyboard

This performs the same function as pressing F5.  You can use this shortcut when you are on a webpage and want to ensure you have the most up-to-date content.  For example, if you’re looking at your email.  Press Control+R (or F5) and any new messages that have not been pushed through yet will appear.

Ever accidentally hit a button and everything is gone?  This command can be a life saver in that situation.  Simply hit this command to restore anything you accidentally deleted.  You can undo multiple actions. Hitting Control+Z multiple times will undo multiple actions in reverse order for which they were performed.

Did you go too far back with CTRL + Z?  This keyboard command takes you forward in time, re-doing actions you previously undid.

Speed up your keyboard movements by moving by word instead of single characters.  (This command treats your cursor as it does in your CAT software!)

Move your cursor backwards a whole word versus letter-by-letter.