Windows 8 Cheat Sheet

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Windows 8 Cheat Sheet
Open the Start screen. The colorful rectangular tiles that make up the new Start
screen are easy to reach.
Touch screen: Swipe your finger into the screen from the right border to make the
Charms panel appear (described next); tap Start.
Mouse: Point to the lower-left corner of the screen; when the Start screen icon appears,
click.
Keyboard: Press the Windows key.
Many new tablets and laptops have a dedicated Windows-logo button under the screen.
Pressing it also opens the Start screen.
Open the Charms panel. The Charms menu is a thin vertical panel of important
icons like Search, Share, Start and Settings.
Touch screen: Swipe your finger into the screen from the right border.
Mouse: Point to the top right corner of the screen.
Keyboard: Press the Windows key+C.
You can also jump directly to one of the buttons on the Charms panel.
Share button: Windows+H
Settings button: Windows+I
Devices button: Windows + K
Open the App menu. Programs designed for TileWorld often have a few options,
represented as icons in a hidden horizontal bar. In Internet Explorer, for example, this
bar shows all your open browser tabs.
Touch screen: Swipe into the screen a short distance from the top or bottom of the
screen.
Mouse:Right click anywhere in the window.
Keyboard: Press the Windows key+Z.
Next app. Here's how you jump from one TileWorld app to the next. (The Desktop, and
all of its own programs, are represented as one jump.)
Touch screen: Swipe into the screen from the left border.
Mouse: Point to the upper left corner of the screen.
Keyboard: Press and release the Windows key+Tab.

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