One or more keys you press to do a certain task, instead of picking a menu option with your mouse. Keyboard shortcuts appear next to the commands in a menu. A popular keyboard shortcut to quickly save a file in Windows is Ctrl+S. keyword KEY WORD A word you use to find a word or series of words in a document. For example, if you use the key word "tax", the computer will find all the places in your document where the word "tax" appears.
