E-Store Owners Can Save Time With These Keyboard Shortcuts

November 25, 2008

As an entrepreneur your time is precious, so every bit of time savings can make a difference. If you have an e-store, you’ve probably had the tedious task of editing, updating and posting your products to your site. What if you could save some time during the process? Instead of right-clicking and then selecting an option or having to click an icon somewhere on your screen, you can use these keyboard shortcuts:

Text Shortcuts:

CTRL + C – Copy whatever is highlighted
CTRL + V – Paste whatever you copied
CTRL + A – Highlight everything in the area you’re in (e.g. a text box, a whole page)
CTRL + Z – Undo whatever you just did
CTRL + B – Bold
CTRL + I – Italics

PhotoShop:

CTRL + Z – Undo/Redo last change
CTRL + ALT + Z – Undo multiple times
CTRL + = – Zoom in
CTRL + – - Zoom out

More PhotoShop keyboard shortcuts here and here

Browser Shortcuts:

CTRL + N – Opens a new browser window in the same browser session. What’s so great about this? Have you ever been editing a product, but needed to reference something somewhere else but you didn’t want to stop what you’re doing? Use this shortcut. The added benefit is if you’re using a do-it-yourself web builder, you will be logged in for both your windows (i.e. same browser session).

CTRL + F – Find. If you need to find a particular word in your text, use this shortcut. Works on pretty much all browsers and Microsoft Word.

-Emily Hirai

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  • 1. Peter  |  November 25, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    Alt+Tab toggles between windows you have open:

    Hold Alt down and hit Tab once, and a menu appears showing all of the app windows you currently have open. Right now it will be highlighting the last window you looked at; so if you let go of both keys, you’ll jump to that application. Or you can keep hitting the Tab key to highlight different applications, and jump to those. It saves some mouse-time (and wrist activity).

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