Stupid Keyboard Tricks

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Sigh. Totally unrelated to anything else, but it's been on my mind. I love keyboard commands. I rarely use my mouse because I'm faster with keyboard commands than I am with anything else. However, I'm looking for new ones. I know a few rarely-used ones...((ctrl+alt+i to bring up an ICQ message, windows+m to minimize all open windows...)) and of course all of the really easy ones ((ctrl+b for bold, ctrl+i for italics, alt+tab to change active screens)). Does anyone have any fun keyboard tricks? I don't even care if they're not useful, I just need to clutter my mind with more useless information.

-- Meghan (meghan@blurredlines.com), July 06, 2000

Answers

Totally useless, but...

ctrl + a highlights everything on a page

shift+home at the end of a line of text will highlight the entire line

There's the basic cut/copy/paste ones everyone knows...(ctrl + x, c, v, respectively)

Ok, I'm drawing blanks. Ask me tomorrow. I'll come up with more.

-- Piper (piperdane@yahoo.com), July 06, 2000.


Seeing how the mouse for the computer in my room is completely dead, I have to learn all the keyboard tricks.

Anyone who never used Ctrl+Alt+Delete before? I live by that. I have an IBM.

Alt - A - S saves in Notepad.

That's the ones I use more than ten times a day :)

-- Anna (bubble@mbox301.swipnet.se), July 07, 2000.


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