Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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    That’s not even a life hack. That’s literally policy, at least where I work at :)

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      Not everyone knows the keyboard shortcut though. I bet you can find people hunting for it using the mouse every time.

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        How can people not use shortcuts? If that shortcut wouldn’t exist, I would create it using Autohotkey

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      None of these comments are life hacks. When did using a documented feature built into your software become a hack?