One reason people do not use keyboard shortcuts more is that the time saved seems so small. It is often only a few seconds, at best, saved by typing some obscure key combination rather than taking your hand off of the keyboard, finding the mouse, the cursor, moving it up into the menu bar, selecting the option you want, navigating through any nested menu options and, finally, clicking on whatever it was you needed.

But those little savings add up through the course of a day, a week, a month. And while it is unlikely that you will ever end up at the end of a day with nothing to do, you may well be surprised, and your boss impressed, with how much you have gotten done.

Let's look at one of the most-common tag sets in HTML, the Paragraph tag. If you are using a Windows PC, the keys for an empty pair of paragraph tags are [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[P]. Macintosh users will type [Command]+[Shift]+[P]. That's neat, but here's the cool part: If you select a range of text first, and use the combination, Dreamweaver will set paragraph tags at either end of that text for you. This works with a single word, a sentence or a real paragraph. You never have to worry about unbalanced tags and you won't have to snake your way through the Insert → HTML → Text Objects → Paragraph menu chain ever again.

You can find several lists of keyboard shortcuts online by searching for Dreamweaver Keyboard Shortcuts. You can save a lot of time, over time, by learning keyboard commands to generate page headings ([Ctrl]+[#] for Windows PCs and [Command]+[#] on the Macintosh) to better organize your document, the Table wizard ( [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[T] for Windows, and [Command]+[Option]+[T] on the Mac) to guide you through building a correct Table, and the command to take you to a given line of Code View, [Ctrl]+[G] for Windows, and [Command]+[,] for the Mac.

Any questions about keyboard shortcuts?