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For keyboard shortcuts in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts.

Other keyboard shortcuts require pressing and holding several keys simultaneously (indicated in the tables below by this sign: ).

Their use is pervasive enough that some users consider them an important element of their routine interactions with a computer.

Whether used as a matter of personal preference or for adaptive technology, the pervasiveness of common conventions means that a meaningful comparison of keyboard shortcuts can be made across various widely used operating systems.

Some of the combinations are not true for localized versions of operating systems.

For example, in a non-English version of Windows, the Edit menu is not always bound to the E shortcut.

Whether such commands are implemented (or not) depends on how an actual application program (such as an editor) is written.

Not all applications follow (all of) these conventions, so if it doesnt work, it isnt compatible.

Move the cursor after one or more undos, and further undos will be redos.

Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner 19 20.

Otherwise displays an NT-style menu, with the option of launching the task manager; likewise for Vista.

The Alt Space combination opens the window menu, and the following key selects from the menu.

As the menu labels (and their underlined hotkeys) vary with the Windows system language, the hotkeys are different for international versions of Microsoft Windows, and may change if users change their Windows system language preference.

The given examples are valid for English user preferencesversion of Windows.

In many multiple document interface applications, Ctrl W or Ctrl F4 closes a document and Alt F4 quits.

In other applications where each document is in its own window, such as later versions of Microsoft Word, Ctrl W, Ctrl F4, and Alt F4 close a document, and there is no consistent shortcut for quitting an application.

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