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title: "Ask The Pros - Keyboard Shortcut Junkies (and some extra shortcuts from me)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/9/ask-the-pros-keyboard-shortcut-junkies-and-some-extra-shortc.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/9/ask-the-pros-keyboard-shortcut-junkies-and-some-extra-shortc.html"
published: "2006-02-09T10:19:00"
updated: "2006-02-09T10:19:00"
tags: ["Tips & Tricks"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Jim Holmes has the latest batch of \"Ask The Pros\", this time on Keyboard Shortcuts . If you haven't been using the keyboard much inside Visual Studio, you could do well by taking a look at the article. Oh, and two…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Ask The Pros - Keyboard Shortcut Junkies (and some extra shortcuts from me)

By Roy Osherove February 9, 2006 In [Tips & Tricks](https://osherove.com/blog/category/tips-tricks)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 9, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Jim Holmes](http://www.iterativerose.com/) has the latest batch of "Ask The Pros", [this time on Keyboard Shortcuts](http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/atpkeyboard). If you haven't been using the keyboard much inside Visual Studio, you could do well by taking a look at the article.

**Oh, and two shortcuts that I forgot to talk about there are:**

Press Ctrl-X or Ctrl-C in a line where you have \*no selection\* - and you'll automatically copy or cut the entire current line. Save lots of time and pain, and just isn't well known.

Another tidbit everyone should know:

If you have a message box popup in Windows (any message box, like an error dialog or such, not just from within Visual Studio), you can simply press Ctrl-C when the dialog is active, and you'll be copying the text of the entire dialog to the windows clipboard. You'll hear a little sound to tell you that it worked, too.

If you've found yourself pressing "PrtScn" to save the message text, this should be a nice way to get rid of that.

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