F Keys: A Guide

• Opens help menu when pressed with Windows button
• Hides/displays ribbon menu in Excel and Word when hit with Control button

• Alt + Ctrl + F2 opens Document Library in Microsoft Office
• Allows you to edit the selected folder or file name in Windows Explorer
• Edits the active cell in Microsoft Excel
• Ctrl + F2 displays a print preview in Microsoft Word

• Opens search feature in Windows Explorer
• Shift + F3 lets you change from lowercase to uppercase to all caps in Word
• Opens find feature in Firefox and Chrome
• Opens Mission Control on an Apple computer running macOS X

• Alt + F4 closes window
• Places the cursor in the address bar in Explorer

F5

• Starts slideshow in PowerPoint
• Refreshes Internet browser pages
• Ctrl + F5 will completely refresh a web page, clearing the cache and downloads all content again
• Opens Find and Replace in Microsoft Office

• Goes to the next page in a split screen in Microsoft Word
• Ctrl + Shift + F6 lets you easily switch between Word documents

• Alt + F7 does a spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Word
• Shift + F7 open Thesaurus in Microsoft Word

• In Excel, enables extend mode for arrow keys
• Enables safe mode in Windows
• Displays a thumbnail image for all workspaces in macOS

• Refreshes document in Microsoft Word
• Sends and receives emails in Outlook
• Ctrl + F9 inserts empty fields into Word
• Displays a thumbnail for each window in a single workspace in macOS 10.3 or later

• Opens menu bar
• Ctrl + F10 maximizes window in Word
• Shift + F10 does the same thing as a right-click

• Exits and enter full-screen mode in browsers
• Shift + F11 adds a new spreadsheet in Excel
• Hides all open windows and shows the desktop in macOS 10.4 or later

• Opens Save As in Word
• Shift + F12 saves Word document
• Ctrl + F12 opens Word document
• Ctrl + Shift + F12 prints Word document