What Keyboard shortcuts should not use?

Question

I almost developed a C# Winforms application. Now I'm looking to provide some keyboard shortcuts to the user for some operations. I want to know that what keyboard shortcuts I should not use that are reserved for windows.

Also tell me what is the preferred key between CTRL+ALT for the shortcuts?

For example - if I want to add a new employee: what key shortcut should I use? CTRL+E or ALT+E

For "new employee", I'd new Ctrl-N which is the key for "New <something>" in most other apps I know — marc_s
– marc_s, Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18

in need of help · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-28 12:20:03Z

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For windows specifically you can look here for all the windows shortcuts. Just to be sure you can also look at this wikipedia article The preference for "Alt" over "Ctrl" or the other way around is only what you think is more usable and more user friendly. I would suggest that you think of other keys as well such as "Shift" and F keys.

answered Jan 28, 2014 at 12:20

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prograshid Over a year ago

This is pretty good answer. But asCTRL+C is use for COPY. So If I use CTRL+C in my application to Add New Customer. Will it work ??

in need of help Over a year ago

Technically you can override CTRL+C for your app, it depends how you try to catch the input. You can add shortcuts to the registry, please note that this override them for all of windows, if you just catch the user input in your app then you will get Copy and the new functionality you add. I would not recommend overloading CTRL+C since this is very widely used.

Prajul G · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-28 12:17:31Z

Any key combination except for those that are used by windows by default like Alt + F4. Because this shortcut is used to close the window. And also shortcuts like Alt + Tab shouldnt be used as they are Windows default shortcuts. Other than such window shortcuts, you can choose any fancy combinations that you prefer as a shortcut to your application. All the best. Hope this helps.

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