And to hopefully contribute something useful. Windows key, left arrow or Windows key, right arrow will maximize your window to the left half or the right half of the screen. Furthermore if you use dual monitors you can bounce your half window screen to the next monitor over. Windows key, up arrow maximizes the window. Windows key, down arrow will first un-maximize your screen, and second tap of Windows down arrow will minimize the window.
I’ll add one of my favorites, one that I use probably 50 times a day. Any time you can use the TAB key to move around the screen. That is, if you’re in excel or the fields in a web form or just in a general Windows setting and your tabbing around, SHIFT+TAB will move backwards through the same fields. It’s nice if you’ve tabbed too far or if you just need to move backwards to change something and don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard to mouse over to the other field.
In many applications, pressing the keys with letters on them will insert the corresponding letter into the document.
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OK, I did not know those ones. Thanks!
DOES IT WORK FOR NUMBERS TOO, I’LL TRY
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I didn’t know these, either - the look quite handy. Thanks!
IMO, part of the reason that knowledge of these arcane shortcuts is so spotty is that comprehensive lists of them take some effort to find. Once you get past ctrl-F, ctrl-C and stuff like that (which you see from the drop-down menu), I found out about most others (that I know of!) just by chance - usually somebody showed me or an article I was reading happened to mention it.
Or from threads like this. 
Thanks, there are some cool tricks here. I know I’ve used the Chrome task just because I think it’s interesting to see how much memory various extensions are using.
And the one thing no one seems to know: When using a scroll bar, if you click on the bar itself, it will scroll down one page (the same thing occurs in your web browser if you press the spacebar). It will also scroll up a page if you click above the little slider. The little arrows at the top and bottom of the scrollbar only move one line at a time – very slow if you’re scrolling a long way.
Two Microsoft Office that people need to know about:
In Word, if you highlight text and press SHIFT-F3, it will toggle between lower case, ALL CAPS, and Title Caps.
In Excel, F4 repeats the previous action. So, if you delete a row, you can move to another row and press F4 to delete that row, too.
Shift+Clicking on the grey bar will move the slider to right where you’re clicking. Works well if you’re good at guessing or you need to move a long way up or down.
Space bar moves down a page. Shift+Space Bar moves up a page.
Wow. Mind-blowing. :rolleyes:
In Firefox, you don’t need to memorize a stupid keyboard shortcut. Under ‘History’ there’s ‘Recently Closed Tabs.’
When I first saw the teaser for that article, a week or so ago, I figured it would be something at least moderately impressive. Instead, it does something Firefox has done for years, only more kludgily. That was about as underwhelming as I could imagine.
On the whole, I’m not big on keyboard shortcuts, because they’re more damned stuff to remember, while the pull-down menus function as memory. But if a keyboard shortcut was all that impressive, I’d find room in my brain to memorize it. But the bar’s a good bit higher than this bit of stupidity.
Because the fraction of a second longer it takes to click Edit-Find each time really piles up over time?
I’m beginning to think there’s a bunch of you who’d be just as happy in a DOS environment.
The lesser known Office shortcuts that I use frequently are:
In MS Word press F7 to spell check a word where the cursor is, press <shift>F7 to open a thesaurus for the word where the cursor is.
In Excel
Page-up and page-down obviously scrolls your rows one page up or down. However
<ctrl>page-up or <ctrl>page-down move you forward or backwards to different worksheet tabs, and
<alt>page-up and <alt>page-down scroll columns one page to the left or right.
Discovering Win-L locks the computer has saved me many minutes at work.
I am now really enjoying the Win-Tab combo. Thanks!
I like inserting special characters not on the keyboard.
Hold down Alt then 2 4 8 = ° degree symbol
Alt + 0 1 6 2 = ¢ cent sign.
ctrl-mousewheel is my personal fave, zooming in and out of many applications.
You have no idea how teeth-gnashing it is to be watching someone in a meeting reviewing a spreadsheet laboriously trial and error their way through the pull-down zoom dialog. 85%…no, 75%…no, 83%…
You really don’t have to participate in this thread, if you don’t mind, I’d rather you go threadshit elsewhere.
I don’t use a lot of shortcuts for the same reason either, but every time I run across one of these threads with 50 new shortcuts in it I might pick up one new one that becomes one of regular shortcuts I use.
Or worse, watching people just trying to read the PDF at 129% and scrolling up and down and side to side instead of changing it to 100%. And with that, is there some reason PDFs always open at 129% instead of 100%.
Which number you use changes the outcome. If you hold down Alt and the 2 above the Q then TSD offers you a search. Try it again and it says you need to wait 120 seconds before searching again.
But, use the numbers on the right of the keyboard and many °s of voila!
Me? Windows+L whenever I leave my desk.