Save your fingers! Part II: Oops shortcut

I call this next keyboard shortcut the Oops shortcut because, I often exclaim "Oops" just before pressing it.

If the other shortcuts are time-savers, this qualifies as a life-saver.

If you have inadvertantly deleted an important file, a large chunk of text from your document or anything mistakes that shouldn't be done but were done, you will understand why this shortcut is so important.

• Ctrl-Z: Undo

After a mistake is done, in Windows Explorer, Word or in fact most other applications (it's quite universal like many shortcuts), press Ctrl-Z to undo the mistake. Simple as that.


Undo's counterpart is the Redo, which I don't really use:

• Ctrl-Y: Redo
  

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