--- title: Did You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows description: In October 2019, Microsoft introduced a new keyboard design that included a dedicated "Office" key. The key is typically positioned between the right Alt and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/did-you-know-shift-ctrl-alt-win-l-opens-linkedin-on-windows-gymftw8vd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Did You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows | daily.dev og:description: In October 2019, Microsoft introduced a new keyboard design that included a dedicated "Office" key. The key is typically positioned between the right Alt and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/did-you-know-shift-ctrl-alt-win-l-opens-linkedin-on-windows-gymftw8vd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GYmFTw8Vd.png og:image:alt: Did You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Did You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 2 min read · 176 upvotes · 30 comments ## Summary In October 2019, Microsoft introduced a new keyboard design that included a dedicated "Office" key. The key is typically positioned between the right Alt and the Emoji key near the space bar. You can press Office+W to open Microsoft Word, Office+X to open Excel or Office+L to open the LinkedIn website. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fastfingertips** · 11 upvotes > what the ... **@huntermcrory** · 6 upvotes > Hm...why do I need to know that? **@mystpi** · 6 upvotes > How are you supposed to press that many keys at once 😖 **@shashoto** · 6 upvotes > Microsoft, are you ok? I am here if you need to talk. **@marcoaustin146** · 5 upvotes > Useful things ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows), [#linkedin](https://daily.dev/tags/linkedin) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/did-you-know-shift-ctrl-alt-win-l-opens-linkedin-on-windows-gymftw8vd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Did You Know? 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