The only shortcut you need to know in Google Drive

Otto Frederick Rohwedder
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Google Drive is the greatest thing since sliced bread (Sorry! Otto Frederick Rohwedder inventor of the first loaf-at-a-time bread slicing machine).  It's a useful tool and if you're anything like me, you'll want the most efficient way to do things with that tool.  For all the applications that are part of the Google Drive suite that means keyboard shortcuts.

Why take a dozen clicks of your mouse or touch-pad and seconds of your time to copy the formatting of a portion of text when you can hit Ctrl+Alt+C instead?  Why?  Because you can't remember what Ctrl+Alt+C does.  That's why.  We can remember the shortcuts that we use everyday like Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V for copying and pasting.  But things that you don't do everyday or keyboard shortcuts that you see once on a list on the internet are quickly forgotten.  What's the solution?  Dozens of post-its? Keeping a list on a pad next to your work space?  An awesome tattoo on your forearm or the back of your hand? And let's not forget that each application has unique keyboard shortcuts.

Nay!

 
Just remember that Ctrl+? will bring up a list of all the keyboard shortcuts for the current application from the word processor...

to the viewer...

This works with every Google App and it's the only keyboard shortcut you'll need to know.