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The 5 finger LinkedIn shortcut may require a few tries before mastering
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Published onJune 3, 2024
published onJune 3, 2024
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Microsoft owns LinkedIn since 2016, so it’s not really unusual to have a quick way to open the LinkedIn profile directly from your Windows 11 desktop. However, as we discovered recently, the shortcut for that is more like a longcut that uses almost all the fingers from your left hand.
What is the LinkedIn shortcut from Windows 11?
Are you ready? TheshortcutisCtrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L. We have tested it and it works. It opens the LinkedIn page on your default browser so at least it doesn’t force it on Microsoft Edge.
We don’t know why Microsoft did that, because it’s absolutely useless. It’s a lot less time consuming to just open a browser (if it’s not already open) and typelinkedinin the page or just hit a bookmark if you’ve created it.
And yes, we’ve read your thoughts, there are some other such shortcuts you didn’t probably know about. For instance, to open Microsoft 365,quickly hitCtrl+Shift+Alt+Win+W, or if you’re late on that Teams meeting, pressCtrl+Shift+Alt+Win+T.
You’ve got it! Just change the letter at the end and see what happens. For example, with X, you will open Excel and with P, here comes PowerPoint on your browser. O is, of course, reserved for the Outlook browser version.
Another unusual fact is that we’ve browsed through the Windows 11 shortcuts on theMicrosoft dedicated pageand didn’t find the one for LinkedIn. Probably it wasn’t updated.
In the meantime, you can check our collection of themost useful shortcuts on Windows 11and see if you haven’t spot one that you would actually need.
Will you use the Windows 11 LinkedIn shortcut to open your profile? Tell us about that in the comments below.
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Claudiu Andone
Windows Toubleshooting Expert
Oldtimer in the tech and science press, Claudiu is focused on whatever comes new from Microsoft.
His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
