Sometimes it’s something simple like CTRL-C, then CTRL-V and the person watching you is like: wait how did you do that?!
You joke.
I had a hardcore boomer who worked mainframes - he was a mainframe wizard - refuse a redundancy payment (at age 60 - would have been a year plus wages). He was told if he didn’t take it, he would be moved to a team elsewhere. He shows up in my team and I had to teach him how to do copy paste. Then the shortcuts blew his mind.
He still used a pen and paper to change passwords (kept a small pile of them on his desk, and none were labeled but that’s another story).
You joke.
I highly doubt that was a joke. It is unsettlingly common among even those who use computers daily.
And then you absolutely blow their fucking mins with WIN+V
I’ve been a Linux user for so long. Clipboard history was a thing almost two decades before Windows got it. I don’t think it is coded to Win+V though – CTRL-ALT-V is what my muscle memory is telling me…
Middle mouse button paste is the bees knees though ;)
Since we’re talking about Windows:
WinKey+.to open up the secret emoji/symbols toolbox. 🫛
It does the same thing on KDE Plasma!
I read every comment and I’m pretty sure I’ve got something most of you don’t know. control and left or right will move by one word at a time in text. if you hold shift with this, you can highlight.
I find this is incredibly useful after I use Alt d or Control-L. in most browsers including most file browsers, this will take you to your address bar. then you can chop up your URL.
I did see somebody mention shift insert. I don’t know if they mentioned shift delete which cuts.
edit:
win+e to open file explorer. win+d to show desktop.
I had to write an essay in an exam setting once and all the keyboard controls like that were disabled. Worst 20 minutes ever
I would be so frustrated I might try to smoke a cigarette in the test
Even better:
Win + Space (Win or Super + Space in Linux also) changes keyboard languages. I’m not seeing that anywhere in here either.
I hate tripping that one. I actively remove my “alternate” keyboards so I never trip it. on windows, one of my emacs binds trips it. so frustrating.
vim enters the chat
When I used to sell tickets on the railway, I noticed that the ticketing programme had underlined letters, so I tried doing alt + those letters and it worked. I spent an evening shift at a remote outstation getting to grips with the shortcuts, then when it came to doing the morning rush at a busier station, it was talk of the town.
I worked at a call centre for a shopping channel years ago, at a time when they were trying to get everyone to ditch this DOS-based ordering programme where you mainly use the F keys for operations in favour of this user-friendly GUI where you could do everything with the mouse, and would you believe, people were routinely faster with the keyboard. I suppose it hadn’t occurred to them that anyone can get used to doing keyboard controls if they’re sat at a computer eight hours a day.
Is this generational? I’m a millennial, 38 years old. I don’t know about most of these short cuts. I’m a mechanic, I use computers at work but mostly proprietary programs. I don’t use my computer at home except for bill paying or something else the necessitates using it.
Sort of, but of certainly not universal. I use common keyboard shortcuts all the time, but don’t know what the one OP was taking about was before just now.
But, older folks seem to never, ever use things like Ctrl+C or Ctrl+P, which drives me crazy. But I’ve also seen people in the last few years who double click links on websites, and aren’t retired yet.
Ultimately, YMMV.
Oh shit there’s a shortcut to do that? I’ve just been dragging one window to the side and then clicking the other when the thingy pops up, like some kind of caveman! 😩
I don’t feel like that method is inferior, it’s just different. Especially depending on the kind of work you’re doing, keyboard or mouse may feel more efficient.
Man just wait till you see what you can do with Win+Tab.
It’s like alt+tab but worse!
Win + shift + S brings up the new version of the snipping tool, win + shift + arrow key moves your window (left and right to change displays, up to fit the window vertically, down to minimize).
TIL about super + shift + arrow. Thank you kind stranger, and it works on KDE very well.
Glad it works on KDE too :) it’s a great tool for looking like a hackerman in front of coworkers.
Mac not having this hot key is criminal.
Mac integrated it into gestures back when 10.7 came out I believe. Believe it was four finger slide up… Haven’t used it in years so I may be wrong. Don’t own any apple products.
I don’t think so, but I’ll look into it. I say that because when I started using a Mac for work in 2019 I was trying to find this feature and it wasn’t there. But maybe it is? idk. I downloaded Rectangle.
Using Autohotkey, fancy zones, and Greenshots makes you look like an actual wizard
I’ve never felt so seen
Ctrl + v, ctrl + z, shift + ctrl + v
What does shift + ctrl + v do?
Pastes without formatting.
Unless you have teams as the forefront app, then it makes a teams call to the group you are chatting with and you hate the programers who figured Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Project, PowerPoint…should all do that and teams should be different
Windows users: Press ctrl + alt + shift + windows key + L. Go on, try it.
You’re welcome. You can never unlearn this knowledge now.
I’m on linux, please just say what this does.
If you’re on Linux, you really should be knowledgeable enough to use a search engine.
I'll save you the trouble this time.
(It opens LinkedIn in the default web browser.)
This is so fucking dumb that I had to look it up anyways, to be sure you’re not joking. Turns out, it is true.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2070843/behold-the-dumbest-windows-shortcut-of-them-all.html
Holy fuck, that’s criminally stupid.
