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10 Keyboard Hacks That Will Change Your Life
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| 5/20/15
| Christina Bonnington
Posted on 05/20/2015 10:54:01 AM PDT by lulu16
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Some I'm planning on learning:
4. Chrome Tabs & Windows We basically live in Chrome, so these tips end up being especially useful. To create a new tab, hit Command/Control+T. Similarly, for a new window, hit Command/Control+N. To switch between tabs (on both Macs and PCs) tap Control+Tab or Control+Page Down. The latter trick is great when you want to cycle through your open tabs, or when you want to alternate between two tabs (Control+Shift+Tab or Control+Page Up lets you navigate back to the previous open tab).
6. Hyperlinks In Gmail No need to copy and paste a URL into an email. If you highlight the text you want to turn into a link, then hit Control/Command+K, a pop-up in Gmail appears and lets you paste in the URL. Now, instead of having an email littered with http://s and www.s, youve got clean text with a few blue, clickable links.
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posted on
05/20/2015 10:54:02 AM PDT
by
lulu16
To: lulu16
My favorite remains Ctrl+Alt, Delete.
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posted on
05/20/2015 10:58:18 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: lulu16; dayglored
I love Ctrl+Q to quit applications in OS X and Linux. Wish it’d work with Windoze.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:08:24 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: lulu16
Many of these tips can be accomplished by using your mouse. Like adding a new tab, just click the + sign after the last open tab. No key board typing needed.
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:08:47 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: lulu16
Wish I could ALT+F4 the democrats.
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:09:01 AM PDT
by
red-dawg
(NO Prisoners.)
To: martin_fierro
I love Ctrl+Q to quit applications in OS X and Linux. Wish itd work with Windoze. Just use Alt + F4.
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:09:15 AM PDT
by
Sparticus
(Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
To: lulu16; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:10:21 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: red-dawg
CTRL+C or CTRL+S would also work as most of the rats brains still run on DOS, Windoze is to picturesque for them to comprehend.
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:20:19 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
(congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
To: martin_fierro
Alt+F4 or either [Alt+F C] OR [Alt+F X] (depends upon the app, older ones used eXit to close, newer tend to Close)
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:23:48 AM PDT
by
roamer_1
(Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
To: Vigilanteman
My favorite remains Ctrl+Alt, Delete.OK, I've given that multiple tries and my device shuts down every damn time.
What's it supposed to do?
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:26:25 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Vigilanteman
I lost my “hit any key” hammer
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:32:04 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: lulu16
Anyone else tired of the gratuitous use of the word “hack”? Sorry but shortcut keys aren’t “hacks”. Thanks for the list though...
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:33:52 AM PDT
by
lwd
To: Vigilanteman
I’ve reprogrammed my keyboard so that every key is the enter key.
Work goes by so much faster now.
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:49:04 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Hillary: polarizing calculating disingenuous insincere ambitious inevitable entitled over-confident)
To: lwd
Anyone else tired of the gratuitous use of the word hack?
Aka, RTFM?
To: lulu16
I like ‘CTRL +’ and ‘CTRL -’ to zoom in and out on pages.
To: lwd
'10 Keyboard Hacks Shortcuts That Will Change Your Life'
To: lulu16
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posted on
05/20/2015 11:57:35 AM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: CivilWarBrewing
How about Ctrl-W to close browser tabs individually?
I use that ALL the time.
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posted on
05/20/2015 12:34:45 PM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
To: lulu16
You can tell when someone really knows how to use their computer, because they only really have to use the mouse about half the time that other users do. Many of these ‘keyboard hacks’ have been around for years.
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posted on
05/20/2015 12:52:18 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
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