Remoting from my Macbook Pro to a Windows PC?

I am using GoToMyPC on my Macbook Pro and remoting in to a Windows computer at work. I'd like to be able to use my Windows functions such as the Alt+Tab and things of that nature. Is there a way to use the Windows controls from my Mac, especially in Excel?

Why don't you just use RDC???
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id715768417?mt=12

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Gidday Folks, my apologies if this has been dealt with but I wasn't able to find a solution that exactly fits my problem. Hope you can help.
I'm using a MacBook Pro in a Windows environment and although it is easy to hook into the network and locate the printer (a Kyocera FS8000-C), it's become a lottery as to whether I can actually print through it. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't.
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4.6 Select the printer type.
4.7 Select the printer driver. (I'd already installed the Kyocera driver)
4.8 Finally, ensure that Windows File Sharing is enabled in the System Preferences Sharing pane,
After a system re-start, the print jobs began rolling.
It was the URI that needed attention, it seems the password was what was tripping the system and once I got that right everything began to work.
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