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Send This Page19-9-2008More Windows Tips and Tricks
There are a number of tricks and shortcuts that are fairly well known among people that have been using Windows a lot over the last 14 years of it's existence. However, we tend to take it for granted that everyone knows these things, when in fact they don't.
Some of these functions are documented in the Windows help files, but I've noticed (with our secretary and my colleagues, for example) that most people never read the help files. I suppose they are kinda boring...
So with out further ado, here are some turbo tips for Windows:
(If a key name is in bold, it means you HOLD IT DOWN while pressing the other keys)
1. Windows key (the one with the flying window on it) and E will open Windows explorer, instead of right clicking the My Computer Icon on the desktop and then clicking Explore. Very useful if your desktop is full of open windows and you wnat to get another explorer window open.
2. Ctrl B for making marked text bold
3. Ctrl C to copy marked text to the clipboard
4. Ctrl V to paste that text into a new document.
5. Ctrl A selects All; either all text in a document, or all files in Explorer.
6. Alt Prt Sc to copy the presently open window to the clipboard. You can then use Ctrl V to paste it, as a jpeg image, into a document, or a photo editing program.
7. Crtl Shift Esc will open Task manager, where you can see what processes are running, and stop them if they are misbehaving and won't close. Task manager also gives you a graph which shows how hard your CPU and memory are working.
8. In Windows Explorer and in Outlook Express (and other programs) if you click on the column headings, it will sort the whole thing according to the alphabetic/numeric order of that column. Clicking it again will reverse sort it.
9. Clicking a word of text twice will highlight (ie mark) that word. Clicking the word three times in quick succession will select the whole sentence, line or paragraph. (Depending on your text editor)
10. In Windows Explorer, if you hold your Ctrl key down, you can click on numerous, random files and select them, even if they are not contiguous.
11. When entering things like usernames and passwords into a dialog box, you normally press tab to go to the next item. If you want to go backwards (or up) to the previous item, press Shift Tab. This is useful when you want to type over whatever is in the edit box, as shift tabbing to it makes it highlighted, so that you just type, and that highlighted text is replaced without you having to delete it first.
12. To put a CD/DVD into a drive without it playing automatically, just hold the shift key down while you load it.
13. In Internet Explorer, to go back to a previous webpage, press the Backspace key on your keyboard. This is useful when the webpage comes up without a back button that you can click.
14. The F5 key usually refreshes the window you are in. If you've just saved a file and it doesn't appear in your file list in Explorer, hit F5 and it should appear.
15. Ctrl U Underlines your selected text. Ctrl I puts it in Italics.
16. Ctrl Z is an undo function. Even works in Solitare! To reverse your last mistake, just do Ctrl Z.
17. Windows Key and D minimise ALL your open windows. Doing it again restores them to normal. It's the same thing as clicking the little desktop icon on your quicklaunch bar.
18. Ctrl Home will take you to the beginning of your document (or web page). Ctrl End will take your cursor to the end of your document or web page.
19. (I'm sure everyone knows this one, but our secretary didn't!) If you want to open a link in a web page in a new tab, in Internet Explorer 7 and above, click the link with your mouse wheel. (If you push the mouse wheel down it also clicks, for those who don't know.)
20. Select a word in your document and press Ctrl H. A Replace dialog box will pop up and you can then replace all occurrences of this word or phrase in your document. Similar for Ctrl F which is to find other occurences of the phrase.
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