The other day, I was sitting in French class, and we had to copy and paste something from an article into a Google Doc. “Just use Ctrl+Shift+V,” I told someone. They had no idea what I was talking about, which was surprising to me, since Ctrl+Shift+V is one of the most useful keyboard shortcuts I know. 

Considering we all use computers constantly, and a lot of that time is spent on Google Docs, I figured it’d be helpful to put together a list of 30 different keyboard shortcuts for Windows (Mac users, I can’t help you).

Warning: Some of these might seem obvious, but I figured it would be better to be more thorough than less. You never know what people do or don’t know.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Ctrl+B- bolds

• Ctrl+I- italicizes

• Ctrl+U- underlines

• Ctrl+C- copies

• Ctrl+V- pastes

• Ctrl+X- cuts

• Ctrl+Z- undo

• Ctrl+Y- redo. Essentially this is the inverse of Ctrl+Z. 

• Ctrl+R- refresh the page

• Ctrl+S- save whatever you are working on

• Ctrl+K- creates a hyperlink on the page

• Ctrl+D- bookmarks a page

• Ctrl+A- selects all the text

• Ctrl+F- find in the document.

• Ctrl+W- Closes your current tab. 

• Ctrl+N- If you’re in an internet browser, it opens up a new window. 

• Ctrl+H- find and replace

• Ctrl+Shift+T- opens the most recently closed tab

• Ctrl+plus/minus- zooms the page in/out

• Ctrl+Backspace- deletes the previous word

• Ctrl+Shift+V- This is “paste without formatting.” Essentially, it pastes something in the same font and size as the doc to which you are pasting it in. 

• Ctrl+Tab- cycles through your open tabs

• Ctrl+Shift+Tab- goes back through your open tabs

• Ctrl+Shift+(period)- increases font size

• Ctrl+Shift+(comma)- decreases font size

• Ctrl+Shift+L- left aligns the text

• Ctrl+Shift+R- right aligns the text

• Ctrl+Shift+E- center aligns the text

• Ctrl+Alt+M- leave a comment on Google docs

• Ctrl+]/[- increase/decrease the indent