Little known keyboard shortcuts for SEOers

It goes without saying that keyboard shortcuts can be a massive help, especially when you’re working on a big project in Excel.

With that in mind, here are some important and little known keyboard shortcuts across Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Google Chrome and AdWords Editor.

Microsoft Word

Something here for content writers, as a few of these can come in very handy for those that have their fingers tied to a keyboard for eight hours a day:

Control + Backspace = Deletes entire words at a time
Control + Delete = Deletes the entire word to the right of the cursor
Control + Direction keys = Scrolls the cursor a word at a time
Control + Shift + Direction keys = Highlights whole words at a time
Control + Shift + V = Pastes information without formatting
Control + Shift + L = Create quick bullet point
Control + Shift + > = Increase font size
Control + Shift + < = Decrease font size
Alt + Control + F2 = Open new document
Control + Mouse Wheel = Zoom in and out of document

And finally, probably the most important shortcut from an SEO perspective:

Control + K = Insert Link

For shortcuts for different editions of Word, check them out here.

Microsoft Excel

Although many shortcuts work across all office programmes, there are a few that are exclusive to certain programmes and some that are more important in others. With that in mind, here are some great Excel shortcuts:

Control + ; = Enter today’s date
Control + ‘ = Copies the contents of the above cell
Control + Shift + L = Set filters
Control + A + C = Clear filters
Control plus + plus - = Delete cell
Highlight cells + Control + D = Copies anything from top cell to other cells
Control + Shift + Up/Down Arrow = Select all data in the column
Shift + Space = Select Row
Control + Space =Select Column
Control + PgUp = Switches between worksheets from left to right
Control + PgDn = Switches between worksheets from right to left
Control + Shift + ~ = Applies general number format
Control + 1 = Displays format cells dialog box

Chrome

Officially the most used internet browser on the planet, there’s probably not one SEOer who doesn’t use Chrome, so here are some crafty keyboard shortcuts for it:

Control + T = Open a new tab
Control + W = Close a current tab
Control + Shift + T = Open the last tab you closed
Control + 1,2,3 etc. = Scroll between corresponding tabs
Control + H = Open history page.
Control + Shift + M = Switch user
Middle Mouse Button = Opens link without using Control and right mouse button
Control + Shift + I or Control + Shift + J = Open developer tools/ Javascript Console
Control + U = View webpage source

Adwords Editor

There’s no denying that PPC guys generally know their stuff, but here are a few shortcuts that might have been looked over: