Your favorite Computer Tricks.

Firefox key Shortcuts- http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts
Window Shortcuts- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... ckref.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449
Chrome Shortcuts - http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bi ... swer=95743



One of my favorites is shift + arrow keys to copy text. Much easier than the select text on the mouse.

Those are great tricks, some I knew, some are new to me. Thank you!

I like CTRL C and CTRL V for copy paste. Like the fact that this site works fine with firefox and no Java, JS, makes for fast loading pages, safer surfing.

Ditto on the CTRL + for bigger text.

ctrl-5 to line thru a row in a spreadsheet

Windows key & D to get to the desktop quickly. (windows key is the one between Ctrl and Alt).

Not a trick but I use a site called readability . It cleans up a busy page ,gets rid of all the fluff so I can just see the article. I have no idea how they do it.

Not sure how many people are actually aware that when you use the drop down menus (in a word doc, or even at the top of the browser window), that the items that are underlined are shortcuts.

example below ctrl - f opens a 'find' task bar, ctrl o opens a dialog box to open a file, ctrl l puts your cursor in the url location window, etc etc. All these shortcuts have always been built in, because there was a time before mouses, and sometimes the mouses go on strike and you need to use just your keyboard to move around a page.

File
New Window
New tab
Open location
Open File

JMC wrote: Not a trick but I use a site called readability . It cleans up a busy page ,gets rid of all the fluff so I can just see the article. I have no idea how they do it.

I use readabilty, too. It's great for older eyes that have trouble reading small type (like mine)

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

There's also a Firefox plugin for it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442/

cool - the ctrl + is going to become my BFF on gaming sites. Thanks