They say there are no shortcuts in the long journey called life. However, using keyboard shortcuts is an easy way to gain a techy image at the workplace. I guess ALT-TAB is the mother of all keyboard shortcuts and the once used most often. Your primary aid to move away from that Anna Kournikova site to the development environment when you see ur manager approaching. Then comes the big brother of ALT-TAB that is ALT-SHIFT-TAB, to move in reverse order. I guess this one is handier; less frequently used and is less popular. An analogy between these two and the famous siblings Mycroft Holmes and his younger brother S. Holmes won't be completely out of place. Use WIN-TAB to move through the taskbar items.
WIN-D or WIN-M is inevitable when you have a 43 windows open and still want to open that pic you saved on your desktop. Incase you want to un-minimize all the windows you just minimized, WIN-SHIFT-M is what you should try. ALT-F4 or CTRL-F4 to close the application or the document is also widely used. How many of you use ALT-SPACEBAR-X to maximize the current window? Or ALT-SPACEBAR-N to minimize the same... In fact, ALT-SPACEBAR-C is a faster and more economical (in terms of hand/finger movements) way to close an application. Even CTRL-W closes a document.
Invoking the menu items comes next. Like ALT-F for File menu, ALT-T for Tools menu and so on... Its easy to migrate from menu to submenu. ALT-F-S saves your document and ALT-F-A opens the 'Save As' dialogue box. You can even remember key code sequences... say ALT-D-F-F will put an auto filter in an excel sheet. And if you want to insert a page break in your word doc, just finger in ALT-I-B and an enter.
SHIFT-F10 is as good as right clicking and ALT-ENTER opens up the properties dialogue of a selected item. CTRL-TAB does the document shift in tabbed applications like FireFox. CTRL-PAGE DOWN and CTRL-PAGE UP travels through the sheets in an excel file.
F1 is universal for help. I heard these days, even those people drowning at Miami Beach call out F1 to get bay watcherss' attention. F2 renames and F3 finds again, whats already searched using a CTRL-F. Even WIN-F opens the file/folder find dialogue.
Fiddling around within a document too has many key codes. CTRL-S saves docs in most applications. CTRL-RIGHT ARROW and CTRL-LEFT ARROW jumps words. CTRL-HOME takes you to the top of the document and CTRL-END to the bottom. CTRL-B and CTRL-I to make selected text bold and italics respectively. As you know, CTRL-F is for find and CTRL-G opens up a page find or a line find dialogue box.
Ok... now comes some key cuts which are not so short but are faster considering the time you spend in figuring out where the mouse is, then swirling it violently twice to figure out where the cursor is and so on. Hit WIN-R and you get the Run prompt. Now if you key in 'winword' and hit enter, MS Word opens. 'iexplore' will open up IE and if you want the windows explorer, use 'explorer'. But then, its easier to use WIN-E to open windows explorer. From the run prompt, there are other codes like 'notepad', 'mspaint', 'devenv'... And if you ever want to open services under Administrative Tools, keying in 'services.msc' in Run prompt and hitting an enter is all that you need to do.
Now a long cut. CTRL-ESC opens start menu. (why not WIN key?).
Time for me to hit WIN-L to logoff...
(This was just the tip of the iceberg... pls do chip in with your fav shortcuts...)
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22 comments:
>> you have 43 windows open
1-> Anna Kournikova site
2-> Work dev enviornment
3-43 -> I wonder what the other sites are ?
Btw, nice post, and you use all of them ? The first time I read your post, it was reading something like this.. But after knowing you a little better, I understand how important these keys would mean to you ;)) especially the ALT-TAB when you have 20+ active conversations going on, on your Y!
You should write another post for people like me, who use linux :-)) .. anyways in linux, we always use commands instead of the mouse thing..
>pls do chip in with your fav shortcuts
There are 2 frequently used shortcuts..
One on keyboard, one outside..
The one on keyboard is Ctrl-Alt-Del
The one outside is the CPU Power Button
Very handy if you have MS OS running!
;-)
I have none to offer and I just realized that I could have saved a lot of precious mins by following those shortcuts. :( In particularly dire situations, the one I do know is the CTRLALTDEL. :) Great Post. Now I am armed with some valuable tips and feeling much better.
man..you seem to be in total CTRL all the time..no wonder you always WIN with the women ;) life is all about short cuts huh..
hey geo, i envy u....do u really use all those keyboard shortcuts...the most common one i use...alt-ctrl-delete has also gone out of use since i stopped coding.
btw i loved ur football post...will leave the comment for that here...most of the bruises i picked up were at football..especially cant forget the one time i bravely stood at the wall and the brutal free kick kalakkufied my stomach...after that i called football a game for savages and quit...but at a renuion post-school i realized most of the guys had slowed down remarkably in the lazy college years and took the chance to score 2 goals much to everyones surprise...wud love to play the game again but looks like none of us have the stamina for it anymore!!
@Alexis Leon:
I knew you would be using shortcuts as you have been literally playing with comps for a long time. Nice to add one or two to your list. :_) I thot Ctrl-C & V to be too elementary...
Anna, Maria, Sania, Sabatini ... the list is long ;_))
@Anita:
3-23 -> the 20+ active conversations you mentioned.
24-43 -> sites I mentioned aboe.
Linux is for geeks like you :_)) I belong to the aam junta... :_))
@Rat:
We find so many MS bashers these days... but the sad fact is most of them cant live without it :_))
@sheetal:
Jump onboard ma’am... :_)
My blog is a medium for me to interact with my friends. So you find a lot of ‘active’ threads... :_))
@quills:
Ya ya... true... so far I have saved 17645 mins... ;_))
Nice to know you liked it. ( atho othuukkal part 2 aano?..anyways...)
@Mind Curry:
Ha ha ha... thanks MC. :_)
Life is all about shortcuts.. you better know which one to use when :_))
@Jiby:
I just wrote about the ones I use.
Wow.. so another footblogger ...cool... these days, I get powershots all over my body very frequently.:_)
Running around the field for a full 90 mins have become really difficult...
Nothing bonds a group of guys the way a game of football does...well... that is if you don’t count the ‘spiritual’ sessions... come over to blore after ur mains... lets do some ball kicking...:_))
I use short cuts extensively. It prolongs your shelf life as a computer user because the more short cuts you use the more the delay in the onset of repetitive stress injuries which has cut many a career short. I use almost all the shortcuts you have listed here. And I have learnt some new ones too. Thank you. Good list.
hey good good...ur tips will help people like me a lot( i didnt know most of the things..cntrl-alt-del is all that i know if the computer gets stuck)
i have one more problem...all the webpages or any document i open is jumping a lot,after i open it since a few day...do i have some kind of virus in the PC...or is it something else...this is Aashi calling GEO HELP LINE!!!
all this sounds like greek to me..
:(
"Life is all about shortcuts.. you better know which one to use when" Please explain !!! :-w
thnx man, i just used a Ctrl + W. u knw wt it does in Firefox with multiple tabs rt :p
vann gyaan! namichu!
i guess this is for the people who are slow on their mice ;)
boom! headshot! >:)
btw theres another shortcut outa ne situation..jez switch off the monitor!
one of my friends' friend once tried this shortcut when his papa came barging in.
however the speakers were still on! ;)
u can guess..
@silverine:
Don’t think I got what u meant...
Were you trying to finish those 2 M2S trolleys while you were commenting? =))
@AF:
Well.... I just put these together just for the heck of it... wanted to see if ppl wud come up with some crazy ones...hope your virus issues are solved by now...
@hope and love:
Sorry :_))
@silverine:
Pls check out #14 =))
@Jithu:
OK.
@-Poison-:
Lemme hear you repeating the same thing 6 months down the line. :_))
You havnt seen ppl using keyboard shortcuts... >:)
That monitor shortcut was a good one :_)) easier way out is to use Rat's shortcut, ie, the reset button. Tat will take care of teh speaker also =))
43 open windows?!?! :)
do you know microsoft's one touch solution ?? the power switch! :P
for saving anything, i find ctrl+S shorter key cut than alt+F->S
good informative post arun!
absolutely! i know who to look for when i need a short cut!
like i always say "you are THE man"
this seems very handy ..but i have to remember all this and then remember which one to use in the millisecond between be4 my boss arrives and then use my hands ( which are already turning cold ) eqully fast on the keyboard ..and given that i have an ancient computer ..which works at the speed of a tortoise hope and pray that the action is carried out immediately ... gawd its tough ...
@Venus: ok, 4 windows...happy? :_)
CTRL-S is shorter...
@MC: one more to the long list of my 'well-meanin' frns!! :_(
@Shruti: once you start using these, it will come naturally to you. hitting WIN-D is kind of a reflex action for me... ;_) ... if ur comp works at a tortoise's pace, then probably take Venus's advice and use the power switch :_)
Geo, thanks for this. I did not know most of these shortcuts.
How's the football practice going? :P
still thinking of short cuts? :)
looks like u're lost while taking shortcuts! ;)
he he he i found out
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