Please share your keyboard shortcuts and time savers here

[underpants]

Okay so ALT F4 backs closes the window you are in

Backspace does the same thing as the <- Back button

ALT 168 does this �


Um.... anything else?

[matcom]

1. ALT 458

produces the following:

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[Mutley]

2. � Hey! You're right!

I don't know anything else.

[matcom]

3. ALT 794 give you the following

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i hope this has been helpful to you

[billyskank]

4. I assume you all know about the Alt-Tab thing for switching apps

(Alt-Shift-Tab does the same thing in reverse order).

Windows-E quickly opens the Windows Explorer for browsing your files.

[tjwmason]

9. Alt-Tab is essential when on D.U. at work.

If somebody comes you can hit it quickly - appearing to be typing, and jumping to whatever you're supposed to be doing in the first place.

Not that I condone such behaviour.

Also, and in the same vein, if you have more than one spreadsheet open in excel, or more than one document in Word Ctrl-Tab switches through those.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

17. Wow. Thanks.

I do both; DU at work and a couple of Excel docs. open at once.

[Floogeldy]

5. Ctrl + F

It opens a "Find" window so you can search for a word or phrase in the page you are viewing. Sometimes when I'm doing a search for something, I will get a huge page and certainly do not want to take the time to read the whole page trying to find what I was searching for in there.

Very handy.

:)

[anarch]

6. I like all of these:

� Windows Logo: Start menu
� Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
� Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
� SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
� Windows Logo+F1: Help
� Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
� Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
� Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
� CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
� CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
� Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
� Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
� Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

[toey]

11. i will definitely use the window logo+d

We have an icon on our start menu at work that does that and i'd often wondered what i could do on my home computer, that's awesome!

Thanks!

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Alt+Tab switches between open windows

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Try holding ctrl-alt-delete for about a minute

That's a great shortcut!! :evilgrin:

[underpants]

10. Thanks

Hey wait a darned minute!!!

[Lilyhoney]

12. This is my favorite

:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:

[Xithras]

13. Buy a mouse with more buttons.

My Logitech mouse has three extra buttons on the sides. They are programmed cycle me through my open windows, minimize everything, and minimize current window. I have an alt configuration that fast-switches them to Cup/Copy/Paste.

It's much faster than KB shortcuts.

[Lochloosa]

14. And get the Logitech MxLaser...best mouse I have ever used...

[bertha katzenengel]

15. ALT 0167 gives you �

useful in my line...

[mainegreen]

16. CTRL-ALT-F1 --> Runlevel 1

on Linux anyways. B-)