I use WordPerfect for work, and several times I have accidentally hit some combination of keys that moves the cursor back to the beginning of the last sentence. I have tried and tried and tried to replicate it, but every time I try I can’t seem to do it. I do vaguely remember once, when I was working really late and rushing to finish a job and was so sleepy I could hardly hold my eyes open, I actually replicated it on purpose. But did I write it down? Of course not. And of course I can’t find anything in the help files about it. :smack:
Also, a few times I’ve accidentally hit some combination of keys that instantly minimizes everything I have open and takes me straight to my desktop. Does anyone know what that might be? Because I’ve not been able to replicate it deliberately.
Windows + M will minimize all windows and show the desktop. SHIFT + Windows + M returns to condition prior to being WinM’d.
Meaning you can WinM your IDE, open a couple of other windows to look some some arcane spec, IM the local guru to ask about something, then SHIFTWinM to bring back up the IDE windows in their exact state and get back to work.
Or, you can walk in on someone pretending to work on a hastily brought up spreadsheet and SHIFTWinM to see what they were really doing. But that would be Evil™.
And the WordPerfect trick sounds like the Home key. Nothing spooky.
Thanks, 1010011010. That Windows trick is exactly what I was thinking of, considering where my fingers were at the time I accidentally did it.
But the WP trick definitely doesn’t involve the Home key. I only wish it did. Believe me, I’ve tried every variation of that I could think of. It’s something arcane that I hopefully will one day rediscover.
I own an '02 PT Cruiser. There’s a lever under the driver’s seat that enables you to manually scoot the seat forward and backward. Well last summer I took a long trip to the Southwest U.S., and my rental car was an '06 PT Cruiser. There had been many changes since my car, some I liked and some I didn’t. But a big problem was that the driver’s seat was way too far forward for me. I could still drive, but the steering wheel was practically right up against me. *And there was no longer a lever under the seat to adjust this. *For the entire 12 days I was cursing the Chrysler engineers who removed the lever from the new models. Finally on the last day of my trip, I was returning the car to the rental agency, and as I was getting out, I accidentally hit a little button on the side of the seat, and it moved back.
On a Mac using Safari I’m accustomed to highlighting a word and hitting command+shift+colon to spell check, but found out by mistake if you hit command+shift+L it automatically opens a google search on what you’ve highlighted in a new window. Very handy for looking up obscure words and phrases that crop up from time to time.
In my first job as a teenager I ran a graphics board for a local minor league baseball team.
Lady that ran it before me taught me all she knew, which ended up not being much.
It was TWO FULL YEARS before I figured out there was a “center” button. For two years I just took her word for it not existing and had to eyeball it, sometimes rewriting it 2-3 times. Also the ability to make multiple slides and advance them step by step was a feature I was assured didn’t exist.
I had my Hyundai for about a year before I realized that “variable speed wipers” actually had a double meaning. Not only can I adjust the speed of the wipers with the wiper controller, but I discovered one drizzly day that when I hit about 40mph, the wiper speed will automatically kick up a notch!