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We don’t negotiate with terrorists here
Is this generational? I’m a millennial, 38 years old. I don’t know about most of these short cuts. I’m a mechanic, I use computers at work but mostly proprietary programs. I don’t use my computer at home except for bill paying or something else the necessitates using it.
I read every comment and I’m pretty sure I’ve got something most of you don’t know. control and left or right will move by one word at a time in text. if you hold shift with this, you can highlight.
I find this is incredibly useful after I use Alt d or Control-L. in most browsers including most file browsers, this will take you to your address bar. then you can chop up your URL.
I did see somebody mention shift insert. I don’t know if they mentioned shift delete which cuts.
Win + shift + S brings up the new version of the snipping tool, win + shift + arrow key moves your window (left and right to change displays, up to fit the window vertically, down to minimize).
TIL about super + shift + arrow. Thank you kind stranger, and it works on KDE very well.
Just enabling Dark Mode in MS Office apps makes me god emperor of technology at work.
When I used to sell tickets on the railway, I noticed that the ticketing programme had underlined letters, so I tried doing alt + those letters and it worked. I spent an evening shift at a remote outstation getting to grips with the shortcuts, then when it came to doing the morning rush at a busier station, it was talk of the town.
I worked at a call centre for a shopping channel years ago, at a time when they were trying to get everyone to ditch this DOS-based ordering programme where you mainly use the F keys for operations in favour of this user-friendly GUI where you could do everything with the mouse, and would you believe, people were routinely faster with the keyboard. I suppose it hadn’t occurred to them that anyone can get used to doing keyboard controls if they’re sat at a computer eight hours a day.
Ctrl + v, ctrl + z, shift + ctrl + v
What does shift + ctrl + v do?
Pastes without formatting.
This is the way
I somehow always manage to fuck this up and flip my screen orientation, because I am a dumb.
You’re pressing Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Keys
I’m the Hackerman of my workplace by using shift+tab to jump one cell to the left in Excel.
tab --> cell to the right ist selected (next cell)
shift+tab --> cell to the left is selected (previous cell)
This is a standard shortcut and works most places where Tab works. Forms, buttons, etc.
Web browsers.
I did not know that. I thought it was Excel exclusively. But many people who use Excel don’t seem to know of this shortcut.
Who art thou prometheus that steals this knowledge from the gods to deliver it on to us mortals?
How OP felt:
Using Autohotkey, fancy zones, and Greenshots makes you look like an actual wizard
I’ve never felt so seen
Mac not having this hot key is criminal.
Download an app called rectangle
I have it, but is there a way to make it so repeatedly pressing the hot key makes it go to the next monitor like on Windows?
Windows users: Press ctrl + alt + shift + windows key + L. Go on, try it.
You’re welcome. You can never unlearn this knowledge now.
Oh awesome another thing to be mad about
I’m on linux, please just say what this does.
If you’re on Linux, you really should be knowledgeable enough to use a search engine.
I'll save you the trouble this time.
(It opens LinkedIn in the default web browser.)
There’s nothing wrong with asking easily searchable questions in threads. Either one person can ask and one person can answer or EVERYONE can search it on their own.
Yup! Also we’re on social media - may as well be social with eachother.
Oh, I thought this was asocial media been over here avoiding people n shit…
This is so fucking dumb that I had to look it up anyways, to be sure you’re not joking. Turns out, it is true.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2070843/behold-the-dumbest-windows-shortcut-of-them-all.html
I am rustled by this comment more than I should be.
Fuck that noise
I haven’t ever uses D LinkedIn, and I never will.
Since we’re talking about Windows:
WinKey+.to open up the secret emoji/symbols toolbox. 🫛
Typing
(windows)in Teams helpfully replaces the word with a dinosaur 🦖 icon.Which annoyingly only has a small subset of the emojis, making me have to use seach anyway.
Better than nothing I guess.Also it used to lag like crazy, idk if it still does.
Yes! Someone saw me add 😎 to a document I was grading once and it blew their mind. “Wait! What did you just do? How did you get that menu?” I try to teach people, but they almost never remember. They praise me for my navigation skills, but they don’t care to learn basic stuff like alt+tab/shift+alt+tab/win+tab.
I usually don’t use alt+tab, but alt+shift+tab is a new one for me, thanks!
It does the same thing on KDE Plasma!
I use tab to fill out forms and people think I’m hackerman.
You pull out shift-tab and they will think you’re some Jedi that has jumped through time. I just go with it and tell them it’s beautiful and peaceful where I’m from, but I needed to show them the ways of the forms. May the forms be with you!
