Keyboard Shortcuts: How They Speed Up Your Work Flow
Keyboard Shortcuts: How They Speed Up Your Work Flow
We all have those days where we would rather be doing anything other than working at a computer. Whether its work, homework or coursework, I'm sure everyone would love to get it finished quicker! Thats where the keyboard shortcuts come in. It has been proven that keyboard shortcuts can speed up your workflow by up to 40%.
There are shortcuts for almost everything, right there on your keyboard. The trick is to know where they are and what they do. One of the most popular is probably ctrl + s. This can be a real life saver if something goes wrong with your computer and you have literally seconds to save your work.
It may surprise you to know that although keyboard shortcuts are simple, important people working on major film or music productions that you will watch in the cinema or hear on the radio use keyboard shortcuts every day. And why is this? To save time! A lot of big film editors use the Editors Keys keyboard sets. A fast and easy way to transform an existing keyboard into an editing keyboard. Having all of the shortcuts there in front of them helps speed up their work even more than just memorising a couple in their heads. Just think, the film you were waiting to be released might have been pushed back to a later date if it wasn't for the keyboard shortcuts!
For people who are working between more than one document, copy and paste can be the best function available on the keyboard. All it takes is a simple ctrl + c followed by a ctrl + p and copy and paste is complete! If only everything was this quick!
When working towards a tight deadline, every second is precious. Why waste time clicking through menus? After asking 100 people to test out the Editors Keys shortcuts sets, all of them agreed that having a visual aid there on their keyboard greatly improved and sped up their workflow! WOW!