MS-Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Window Control

Alt-Space

Open the current app-window's "control menu" (AKA "system menu")
(The thing you get by hitting the "-" to the left of the app's title bar.)

Alt-"-"

Open the current document-window's "control menu" (AKA "system menu")

Alt (by itself)

Select the first (normally, leftmost) item on the Menu Bar. (Maybe "File", maybe the document-window's control "-" menu)

F10

When not overridden, same as Alt (by itself).

Shift-F10

Win9x: When not overridden, pop up the "shortcut menu" (same as right-mouse-click -- often called "Properties")

Application & Document Switching

Ctrl-Esc

Pop up the Task List window.

Win9x: Pop up the "Start" menu.

Alt-Esc

Switch to the next application
("Next" referring to the next one down in the order of apps you get when you hit Ctrl-Esc.)
The current (topmost) app goes to the bottom in the new order. (Note that minimizing an application also sends to to the bottom of that tasklist order.)

Shift-Alt-Esc

Switch to the previous applicaton.
("Previous" referring to the farthest one down in the order of apps you get when you hit Ctrl-Esc.)
The current (topmost) app goes to second place in the new order.

Alt-Tab

Switch to another app.
(Hold Alt and repeatedly press Tab in order to go thru the apps listed in the order they're listed in in the Ctrl-Esc list. I.e., you start from the 2nd-from-the-top and move down.) The current (topmost) app goes to second place in the new order.

Shift-Alt-Tab

Switch to another app.
(Hold Alt and repeatedly press Tab in order to go thru the apps listed in the order INVERSE to how they're listed in in the Ctrl-Esc list -- i.e., you start from the bottom and move up.) The current (topmost) app goes to second place in the new order. You can shift from Shift-Alt-Tab order to Alt-Tab order as long as you hold down Alt.

Alt-F4

Close this app.

Ctrl-F6

Switch to the next document window in this app.

Shift-Ctrl-F6

Switch to the previous document window in this app.
Sometimes unrecognized, or assigned another function.

Ctrl-Tab

Same as Ctrl-F6.
Sometimes unrecognized, or assigned another function.

Shift-Ctrl-Tab

Same as Shift-Ctrl-F6.
Sometimes unrecognized, or assigned another function.

Form-Box Screen Control

Tab

Move to the next field (radio button group, picklist, scroll-list, checkbox, button, etc).

Shift-Tab

Move to the previous field.

Space

Toggle the state of checkboxes.

Up or Left

Generally: Switch to (and make active) the previous radio button in this field.
Or, in a picklist, switch to the previous option in this picklist.

Down or Right

Generally: Switch to (and make active) the next radio button in this field.
Or, in a picklist, switch to the next option in this picklist.

Ctrl-Home

Switch to the topmost option in this picklist.

Ctrl-End

Switch to the bottommost option in this picklist.

Alt-Up or Alt-Down

Expand or Contract the drop-down for the current picklist. (I.e., toggle between just the one line, or a few lines with a scrollbar.)

Screen Capture

PrintScreen

Snapshot the screen to the clipboard.

Alt-PrintScreen

Snapshot the current application window to the clipboard.
(Note that there seems to be no corresponding keystroke for getting just the current document window.)

Clipboard

Ctrl-Ins

Copy

Shift-Ins

Paste

Shift-Del

Cut

Cursoring

Home

Start of current line.

End

End of current line.

Ctrl-Right

Start of the previous word.

Ctrl-Left

Start of the next word.

Ctrl-Home

Start of doc.

Ctrl-End

End of doc.

Ctrl-PgUp

Top of the current window.

Ctrl-PgDn

Bottom of the current window.

PgUp

Scroll the current window one screen-worth up.

PgDn

Scroll the current window one screen-worth down.