Controlling Text with the CTRL Key
This tip will work in any email program like OE Classic, Thunderbird, Outlook, and with most webmail applications like Gmail and Outlook.com. It also works in word processors such as Microsoft Word and many others. And they’ll also work in WordPad which comes pre-installed with every version of Windows. (WordPad is being discontinued according to Microsoft, but as of today it’s still with us in Windows 10 and Windows 11. )
If you want to make a sentence or word bolded, highlight the word or sentence and press CTRL + B. See?
If you want to underline a sentence or word highlight the sentence or word you want to underline and press CTRL + U. See?
If you want to italicize a word or sentence, highlight the word or sentence and press CTRL+ i … See?
If you want to make a word or sentence bold and italic and underline, just highlight and press CTRL+B, CTRL+ i, and CTRL+U. SEE?
If you to go to the beginning of a document or email press CTRL+Home.
If you want to go to the end of a document or email press CTRL+End.
If you want to find a word in a document press CTRL+F and type what you’re looking for into the search box that appears.
If you want to make a hyperlink (a link to a website) highlight the word or phrase and press CTRL+K. When you press CTRL+K a dialog will appear, type or paste the website address (URL) into the address field, and voila! You have a link to a website. See?
And if you want to create a new document press CTRL+N.
There are many more tricks like this.
CTRL+C copies the selected text. CNTL+V pastes the copied text. If you accidentally make a change or delete something you didn’t mean to change or delete, press CTRL+Z right away, it will undo or redo whatever you’ve done. And if you want to undo CTRL+Z, use CTRL+Y.
There are other tricks that don’t use the CTRL key – like pressing Home to go to the beginning of a line and pressing END to go to the end of a line. But today we’re all about controlling text using the CTRL key.