Application Shortcuts
Posted by jeggent on May 13, 2014
One of my favorite and most used quick tips
is to add Shortcut keys to a couple of applications. If you right click on a program in the Start menu ( Windows 7 and before – not sure about Windows 8 ) and click Properties you can enter a key in the Shortcut key field, Windows will add the “Ctrl + Alt +”. Then you can launch that program just by pressing Ctrl + Alt + whatever key you selected. I’ve been using this with Notepad and Calculator for many years. There are lots of times when I want to paste something into Notepad to remove the formatting or to view or edit something quickly. I also bring up the Calculator often to do a quick calculation. I’ve been asked a number of times “how did you do that” when I quickly press Ctrl + Alt + N to bring up Notepad or Ctrl + Alt + C for the Calculator. It’s just one of those things I’ve done that’s saved me 5 seconds 100s of times.