Editing Keyboard shortcut (section)

{{Short description|Assignments for computer keyboard keys}}
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[[File:Firefoxshortcuts.png|thumb|300px|right|[[Mozilla Firefox 3|Firefox 3.0]] menu with shortcuts, highlighted with green and mnemonics highlighted with yellow]]
[[File:System 1 File Edit.png|thumb|right|234px<!-- please do not rescale -->|Composite of two [[Finder (software)|Macintosh Finder]] menus with keyboard shortcuts specified in the right column]]
In [[computing]], a '''keyboard shortcut''' (also '''hotkey'''/'''hot key''' or '''key binding''')<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-19 |title=Google Books Ngram Viewer |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=keyboard+shortcut,hotkey,hot+key,key+binding&year_start=1982&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=1&case_insensitive=true |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=books.google.com |language=en}}</ref> is a [[software]]-based assignment of an action to one or more keys on a computer keyboard. Most [[Operating system|operating systems]] and [[Application software|applications]] come with a [[Table of keyboard shortcuts|default set of keyboard shortcuts]], some of which may be modified by the [[User (computing)|user]] in the [[Settings (Windows)|settings]]. 

Keyboard configuration software allows users to create and assign [[Macro (computer science)|macros]] to key combinations which can perform more complex sequences of actions. Some older keyboards had a physical [[macro key]] specifically for this purpose.