David shows three Windows 10 shortcuts that save time: Win + ; opens an emoji picker, Win + Shift + S captures screenshots to your clipboard, and Win + V lets you access your clipboard history and pin items you use often.
Hello everyone, this is David, and today we'll be talking about 3 lesser-known but useful keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10. The first one I want to talk to you about is the emoji picker. As you know, standard keyboards for PCs don't actually have an emoji button like modern smartphone and tablet software keyboards do. But what you may not have known is if you hold Windows and the semicolon key, there's actually an emoji picker that pops up that you can use inside of Windows 10. Simply click the ones that you want to use and they will appear. You can also search for one. So for example, if I want to find something movie related, you just type in movie and you can select that and it replaces whatever you type. Very useful not only for emojis but actually for symbols as well. This is useful if you want to include a symbol of some kind that's not readily available on your keyboard. So that's the first one. The next one I want to show you is Windows Shift S. If you press those keys, you actually are greeted with this overlay, and this overlay allows you to screencap various sections of the screen. So all you have to do is click and drag, and it will copy that to your clipboard. So as soon as you paste, here is that screencap that I took earlier. You'll notice if I hit Win key Shift S, there's some more options along the top too. This is a freeform selection. So you can kind of click and drag and get a precise grab of whatever you want. And if you paste that, here is that specific screen grab from a freeform screen select. And there's another option also called Window Snip. So this will pick a specific window of an application that happens to be open. So if you highlight this Notepad instance, for example, and click it, it will then copy that to your clipboard, and here it is. Very useful. Very convenient. I use it quite frequently. The next keyboard shortcut I want to tell you about is Windows key V. Now, to enable this to work, you actually have to enable a setting first. So if you go to Windows Settings, go to System, and scroll down to where it says Clipboard, make sure Clipboard history is enabled and turned on. Once it is, you'll be able to press the Windows and the V key to access a Clipboard history interface. So as you can see, these are the things that I've copied. I don't remember exactly what the limit is, it might be something like 12 or 20 items, I don't remember. But at any moment you can access these items. Here are the screenshots that I took earlier, for example, and here's some text that I copied from before. If there's a particular piece of content that you find yourself pasting a lot, you can even pin it to your clipboard. So if you ever open up this again and you, let's say, clear everything, whatever you pinned will still be there. Very useful, very handy. So I hope you're able to make use of these keyboard shortcuts. I know I certainly do. And if you got value out of this video, please give this video a like and provide a comment if you have something to say, and subscribe to this channel if you believe it's worth it. Thank you very much, and I'll see you guys next time.
