Keyboard Shortcuts
If you like to keep your hands on your keyboard, typing key combinations to save time rather than using the mouse, you may be surprised not to find many keyboard shortcuts sprinkled throughout this book. Wikipedia does have such shortcuts, but the exact key combinations depend not only on your operating system (Mac or Windows) and your Web browser, but even the version of the Web browser you’re using.
The page Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts (shortcut: WP:K) tells you what special keys to press in combination letter or number keys to do something. For example, in Internet Explorer for Windows, Shift+Alt+Z takes you to the Main Page. A number of the keystrokes work for administrators (sysops) only. But you’ll also find keyboard shortcuts that are alternatives to using the mouse for a lot of things that you might otherwise use a mouse click:
Getting to the search box
Buttons below the edit box, like “Show preview” and Save
The standard tabs along the top of the page
The six links at the upper-right of the screen
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