Windows Live Writer Tips #10 – Keyboard Shortcuts

Sometimes, you can be just in the groove when typing your blog entry, and the last thing you want to do is disrupt your flow by having to use your mouse to do something. Fortunately, Writer has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that make this really easy to avoid. Below is a list of some of the main keyboard shortcuts (I’m omitting formatting shortcuts like CTRL+B for turning on bold text, etc).

Views

Edit window	F11
Preview window	F12
Source window	Shift+F11
Toggle theme usage	CTRL+F11

Editing

Paste Special	CTRL+Shift+V
Insert Hyperlink	CTRL+K
Insert Picture	CTRL+L
New Page	CTRL+G
Hide/Display Post Properties	F2
Redo an Undo	CTRL+Y

Miscellaneous

Publish Post	CTRL+Shift+P
Edit/Set Categories	CTRL+Shift+C

Tip by Scott Lovegrove.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
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• Anonymous
  May 25, 2009
  thank you, it got me motivated to check out all the shorts.
• Anonymous
  September 06, 2009
  Any chance there's a keyboard shortcut for ratings? Sure would be handy to quickly rate and then move on to the next photo.
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2009
  Did I really post this question here? Apologies, I was looking for shortcuts for windows live photo gallery.