..Learning HotKeys!

[bayrodney]

This is My Second year of highschool, (back to learning, woo hoo?) And this year i am learning all aout computers in IT. Today we learnt about HotKeys, and i was taken back on how quick and easy i can do things thanks to the HotKeys...
And i was just wondering if anyone knew any interesting or \'wicked\' HotKeys..??

Cheers..

Oh and P.S, I have a mouse for my computer. If i had more then 1 mouse, what is the word for having more then one mouse?

Anywho, Cheers Again
Good to be back after a tad break from CMoN!

 

[Dragonsreach]

Working in IT we always call multiple mouse units : Mouses

When you say \"Hotkeys\" dor you mean key combinations or assigned functions to the F1 etc keys.

Classic Key combinations:

Cntrl & Z = Undo (lifesaver!)
Cntrl & A = Select all
Cntrl & C = Copy
Cntrl & V = Paste
Cntrl & S = Save

And there are more I\'ve forgotten.
However there are combinations used in so many differing programs that it\'s hard to keep track.

 

[Ritual]

Hot keys are great when you\'re working with computers professionally. Saves lots of time! Generally, I find myself not remembering exactly which keys that do what, but instinctively I reach for the correct ones when I work.

 

[bayrodney]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach

When you say \"Hotkeys\" dor you mean key combinations

Yep!

 

[airhead]

Windows has some built in hot keys:

Windows key + e = explorer
Windows key + m = minimise all aps
Windows key + r = opens the Run window
Windows key + f = search

 

[Evil Dave]

The most useful one I know:
When you have a web page up and want to open another without loosing the one you\'re on (useful for linking)
Ctl +N

 

[Shaetano]

windows key + l = lock the workstation (could be this only works when PC is in a domain though...)

 

[Modderrhu]

Some obscure, but such useful ones that that most have forgotten with Windows, or have probably never learnt;
Alt+F4 - Close the current window/application
Ctrl+F4 - Close the current MDI* window/document
Ctrl+F6 - Rotates through the current application\'s MDI windows/documents
Ctrl+PgUp - switch to previous tab in a tabbed dialog box, also for things like Excel\'s pages
Ctrl+PgDn - switch to next tab in a tabbed dialog box
Shift+Del** - old version of Ctrl+X
Shift+Ins** - old version of Ctrl+V
Ctrl+Ins** - old version of Ctrl+C
Alt+BkSp** - old version of Ctrl+Z
Ctrl+Esc - opens the start menu
Ctrl+Shift+Esc - opens the task/process list
Alt+PrtSc - takes a snapshot of the current window and places it into the clipboard as a bitmap. There are other variations, but I don\'t remember them.

*MDI means Multiple Document Interface, basically where you have more than one document open inside a single application at the same time inside the same window.

** Sometimes the old (CUA) versions of the commands will work when the new ones don\'t, and vice-versa.

There are tonnes of these things floating around. You should be able to find them in the Windows help.

 

[green stuff]

Message original : Dragonsreach
Working in IT we always call multiple mouse units : Mouses

You\'re kidding, right ??? ?

What ever happened to \"mice\"?

Oh and : Ctrl+Y = redo

 

[Ratcals]

Originally posted by Shaetano
windows key + l = lock the workstation (could be this only works when PC is in a domain though...)

Thanks, I didn\'t know about that one. I never leave my work computer without locking it first. You never know what your screen is going to look like when you come back if you don\'t.

 

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by green stuff
You\'re kidding, right ??? ?

What ever happened to \"mice\"?

No kidding, it\'s true. I\'d love to find the numbnut that decided on that convention. I\'m always stopping myself from saying \"mice\", then I go ahead and say it anyway. It\'s my little form of protest.

I\'d like to know what happened to \"virii\"...

Originally posted by Ratcals
You never know what your screen is going to look like when you come back if you don\'t.

Hehehe, just stick a label underneath the perpetrator\'s mouse, sit back and watch the confusion.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by green stuff

Message original : Dragonsreach
Working in IT we always call multiple mouse units : Mouses

You\'re kidding, right ??? ?

What ever happened to \"mice\"? No that\'s what we use. It helps to differenciate when you have a building with real Rodents.

Oh and as an aside one of the schools we support had an issue with the \'kids\' eating the mouse balls. I jest ye not!

Oh and : Ctrl+Y = redo

 

[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Modderrhu
Hehehe, just stick a label underneath the perpetrator\'s mouse, sit back and watch the confusion.

How beginner.

Try this.
Take a screenshot of their desktop, using Ctrl + Print screen, paste it to Paint, and make it their background, take all of their real icons place them in a folder and put that folder somewhere else, sit back and watch as they try to click on the icons that are just pictures.

*This works well for the guy who\'s contantly on the phone.*
Take his phone apart and put something in to muffle the speaker in the phone, wait a couple days and take the phone apart again and put something in to muffle the mic, takeout the speaker muffler.

If your coworker is a hunt and peck typist, simply pop off the key board keys and put them in a differrent order, nothing too major switch the N and M, it drives them nuts.

One of the best office pranks we pulled:
My buddy and I had a dielectric buzzer that we hid up in the ceiling tiles of another coworkers office, we then ran the wires alongside the networking cables and hooked it up to a varister and a battery, we could control the volume of this thing from our office right across the hall. we\'d do a real loud buzz, and then turn it down so it was just barely hearable. The guy would come to get us when he heard it to see if we heard it too, of course we said no.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Nasty trick, we once Araldite\'d a guy\'s handset to the phone cradle. (He was one of those \"one ring snatchers\").
He only just missed putting his own lights out.
Oh and he answers the phone a lot slower now.

 

[hakoMike]

Originally posted by Shaetano
windows key + L = lock the workstation (could be this only works when PC is in a domain though...)

I think that only works with winxp professional. Along with win+e and win+r, I use it constantly.

 

[johnboyjjb]

Other simple annoyances include switching on stickykeys, changing languages, and putting the mouse to left handed support and/or changing the orientation.

A more advanced form of evil happened in high school. We created a word macro that did a replace function on all vowels, spaces, and common punctuation marks. We set it to trigger off a menu button and gave it the save icon. Whenever you hit save all spaces, vowels, and puntuation would instantly vanish. You were left with a brick of consonants.

 

[Ogrebane]

F4 is repaet last
F5 save
F2 new record
F8 duplicate record
These work for most windows bases databases and a few other apps like word and excel (tm)
And F10 (the boss button) go to next application.
I think F12 is exit.

So what year you in Bay. Must be 8 or 9 Im guessing.

 

[freakinacage]

slow down guys! i can only write these down so fast!!

 

[LavronYor]

How did Evil Dave get that name? With those tricks, it should definately be Super Evil Dave.

I thought Hotkeys were like

S for Save picture as

N for Next picture and

Esc for your wife is coming

 

[ipaintminis]

I didn\'t see this one...sorry if i missed it

Alt+Tab = switch screens...

its my lifesaver, with all of my classes online its alot easier to manage that way!