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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 1:44 pm
Thought I'd start a separate thread for the little tips I am hoping the keystrokes savvy will impart to those of us who don't read instructions. We already know the one ds passed on to his dear old Mum, i.e. Windows key + m = bee line to your desktop And Vee imparted another useful little tidbit to me, i.e. Control + mouse wheel = instant font resizing at any site you are visiting What little keystroke magic do you find useful? What would you like an easy keystroke to do for you?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 1:59 pm
i still use ctrl-c for copy, ctrl-v for paste, ctrl-x for cut
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 4:26 pm
Control b for bold Control U for underline Control I for italics I also love control apostrophe then whatever letter needs the accent... Probably won't work here,though. NOpe -- just opened my bookmarks on the side. Works in Word beautifully.
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:57 pm
In Internet Explorer, I sometimes use Control + Enter to complete the address bar. It is a shortcut that puts all the http: and www. and slashes in there for you. Highlight the address bar and type just the main part of the address "amazon", "nordstrom", etc. then hit Control + Enter and it fills in the rest for you. Only works for .com sites though. Also in IE, I will toggle back and forth with the F11 key. It shrinks the toolbars up at the top to show just the minimum icons to give you more screen view, and then you can toggle F11 again when you need to see the full toolbars. Pretty much anywhere for copy and paste, I use Control + Insert, and Shift + Insert. A trick I learned at work where for some reason Control C and V wouldn't work between some of the different programs we use, but Control/Shift Insert seems to work between pretty much anything, so I've just gotten used to using them any time I want to copy and paste. More keyboard shortcuts please! 
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:07 pm
The backspace key in Internet Explorer. Takes you back to the previously viewed page. Very convenient. Ctrl-a for selecting all items in a list. Alt F4 closes an application.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:08 pm
Shift F10 = right click ctrl z = undo ctrl F = find ctrl esc = start menu F1 = help F5 = refresh view F2 = rename
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 3:10 pm
Wow, this thread is hopping. Thank you all for dropping off you tips. Please, keep 'em coming! Does anyone have any tips for Firefox? The one I use a lot is Control + mouse click = new tab Seeing all those open TVCH tabs gives dh palpitations every time, but it hasn't crashed yet. Gotta luv that Firefox.LOL
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 8:09 pm
Has alt+tab been mentioned yet? That's a personal fave to toggle between open programs/windows.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 7:56 pm
Cool thread! I'd be toast if it weren't for keyboard shortcuts! It drives me crazy to see people do it the long way. Alt+tab is by far my favourite. When I'm surfing at work, I know my important proposal in Word is just a quick keyboard shortcut away, should I hear footsteps coming up behind me, lol. The ones I use often have already been mentioned -- select all, undo, copy, paste, etc. I also use a lot of the Alt + four digit code for accented letters and special characters (for example, Alt+0233 = é in most Windows programs). An easy one for Outlook is Ctrl + enter = send message. When browsing, Ctrl+H will open your history folder -- all the pages you've recently visited. Ctrl+F brings up your "find on this page" (web) or "find and replace" (documents). And don't forget the all important Ctrl+Alt+Del for instant access to your Task Manager.
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