Lightroom Keywording question...

I am pretty comfortable with Lightroom, but there is one scenario that can be frustrating.
I am keywording a new batch of photos. I am on a photo and assign 5 keywords. I then right arrow to the next photo and I want to "dupe" all 5 keywords from the previous photo (e.g. copy/paste)...
There doesn't seem to be an easy way (button or keyboard shortcut)...
Any suggestions?
Right now I either:
* Click all the keywords in recent keyword list (a pain)
* Go "back" and copy / paste
Any suggestions would be grateful.

There are many ways. One is to use the keyword spray can (should be on the bottom toolbar), the other main way is to copy metadata (from the metadata menU, the shortcut is different in windows and Mac OS, so check the shortcut there), select keywords as what to copy and paste the metadata over your other image.
Edit: Oh I didn't notice you were using the zoom view, yeah there it is a little harder.

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