Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to make your work day a little more productive without much effort. Did you know that you can create a keyboard shortcut on a Windows PC that can direct you to a specific web page? Let’s go through how you can accomplish this.
There are several ways to create an Internet shortcut on your keyboard.
By hand
To manually create your Internet keyboard shortcut, right-click on the desktop and select New > Shortcut. When the dialog box opens, enter the website URL in the box that appears, and then select Next. You will then be prompted to give your new shortcut a name. When you’re ready, click Finish. Your new icon will appear on your desktop.
Now when you right-click on it, you can choose Properties to see information about the shortcut. From here you can change the URL, assign a shortcut key, and change the icon. Click in the Shortcut key box, then type the key you want to use for your new shortcut. Then the key combination will appear in the box.
Click and drag
To save yourself a step, you can simply click and drag the shortcut URL to your desktop to make the shortcut a little faster and easier. This also gives your shortcut a name in the form of a website page name. From here, you can right-click on the shortcut, select Properties, and see the same information you can see in the step above.
And that’s all there is to it. Now you can create custom keyboard shortcuts for your favorite websites. Alternatively, you can just use bookmarks in your browser, but the more tools you have at your disposal, the better.
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