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Windows Quick Tip: Set up keyboard shortcuts for your most used icons.
Apr 5th
It’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something.
Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup Any Task!
Are you feeling that productivity boost?
How can I resize windows that are stubborn?
Dec 24th
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on LifeHacker a while back. This Resizeable goodness is ever so cleverly called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why we are so anal-retentive that we need to do this (is there a hyphen in that – wow now that’s anal)…
Well screen real estate is a commodity (much like sleep these days) that we can never have enough of.
Take your resizing self over to the authors site and grab this app and you will be resizing like a pro in no time. Its 39k and the screen contents scale down or up to what ever size you choose.
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I moved my window off screen. Can you help me get it back?
Oct 3rd
Reader Elizabeth (who knew we had so many female readers!) wrote to us that she moved her Word document off the screen so she can only see the bottom half of it.
She didn’t save it and can not move or close it. We have all done this before, moving windows around willey nilley to see whats behind it or just to see the pretty trails… for fun :).
No matter what program you are using or why you did it you can use a quick keyboard combo to remedy your situation.
You see you get a menu in the upper left corner that allows you to move, resize, maximize, minimize or close the window. Now even if that menu is off the screen you can hit the letter of the command you want and Windows will issue it. For example we moved our browser off screen and want to get it back.
The easiest way to accomplish this is to hit Alt + Space Bar and then X to maximize the window. Try it out – it works like a charm. You can also hit Alt + Space Bar and then M to move the window. Then you use your arrow keys to move it all about (Very Hokey Pokey-esque eh?) Alt + Space Bar and then N will minimize your window to the taskbar and finally C will close the window. X maximizes and C closes – got it?
Good.
Feeling the keyboard shortcuts? Shift F10 is the same thing as right clicking…
Useful Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for IT Pros – Part 2
Nov 13th
Following on from Part 1, where I shared some useful keyboard shortcuts for general Windows usage, Part 2 covers useful shortcuts for working with Files and Text.
Working with Files and Text
F2
Rename the highlighted file in Explorer. Edits a Cell in Excel / OpenOffice Calc.
Alt + Enter
View properties of the selected item. Works in Explorer, but also works in other places, including Outlook.
Shift + Drag file
Moves files instead of copying them to separate volumes or disks.
Control + A
Selects all text, or all files in a directory. Very useful when you need to highlight everything and then Copy or Move (Cut) it somewhere.
Control + C
Copies the highlighted item (could be text, or a file/folder). Also, Control + X cuts the highlighted item.
Control + V
Pastes whatever you just copied.
Control + Z
Undoes your last action. This even applies when you’ve deleted a file and want to restore it. Always useful when writing up blog posts ;)
Control + Y
Reapplies the action you just “undid”.
Text Specific
Control + B
Emboldens selected text, or starts to embolden text after you’ve used the shortcut. Use it again to turn off emboldening.
Control + I
Italicises selected text, or starts to italicise text after you’ve used the shortcut. Use it again to turn off italicise.
Control + U
Underlines selected text, or starts to underline text after you’ve used the shortcut. Use it again to turn off underline.
Control + Left or Right Arrow
Move forward to back a word.
Control + Shift + Left or Right Arrow
Highlight a word, backwards or forwards. Keep tapping to highlight more words
Control + Up or Down Arrow
Move to beginning or end of a line.
Shift + Up or Down Arrow
Highlight an entire line up or down.
Control + Backspace
Deletes one word to the left (behind).
Control + Delete
Deletes one word to the right (in front).
Have I missed any useful ones? What shortcuts do you use? Let me know in the comments! :)
Article originally published at Mind Circus – Inside the mind of a young IT Professional
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