Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Windows

For (Window/Child Window/MDI Window/Dialog Box) Programs Under Microsoft Windows

• ALT+F4: Quit program
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current MDI child window
• F1: Starts Program's Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10: Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (like you right-click an object)
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the MDI child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program.
• CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Switch to the previous child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program.
• ALT+F6 or Ctrl+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu

 Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item

Info:

• MDI = Multiple Document Interface
• shortcut menu or context menu or right click menu
• SPACE = SPACEBAR
• ALT = ALTERNATE keyboard, usually in left and right side of your spacebar
• CTRL = CONTROL keyboard, usually you found in left side before the left ALT and right side after the right ALT.

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