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| Thread ID: 76568 | 2007-02-05 10:33:00 | ctrl+arrow key | heni72847 (1166) | PC World Chat |
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| 522870 | 2007-02-05 10:33:00 | wow just noticed this by accident! ..um..how should i describe this.. you know..when you are typing stuff and you don't wanna move your hand to the mouse to select a new place to type you can just use the arrow key on the keyboard to slowly move forward or backward until you reach a certain place but now i just realized rather than pressing and hold the arrow key i can go ctrl+arrow key (left or right) and the curser will jump to the word before or after ..like.. it can jump one word at a time instead of going through all the charactors not only it recognize a space to jump to.. it seems to jump to some other charactors such as _ and . and others call me stupid if this is actually general knowledge but i don't think i've seen people mention this anywhere..and it's kinda handy too~try it out! works when i typed this or when i rename files or even when typing urls |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 522871 | 2007-02-05 10:39:00 | CTRL + Left or right arrow in a web browser makes you go back or forward in a page. Fancy that :nerd: Now where did I put that list of KB shortcuts... |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 522872 | 2007-02-05 19:53:00 | it's alt+left/right for my browser to go back and forward..ohwelz.. | heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 522873 | 2007-02-05 23:59:00 | For fun at work, try CTRL-ALT (Arrow UP) to turn any windows screen 180 degrees. CTRL-ALT (Arrow Down) to turn it back. :) |
wellyg33k (11804) | ||
| 522874 | 2007-02-06 05:54:00 | it's alt+left/right for my browser to go back and forward..ohwelz.. Ahh right... I forgot I have keyboard software on my laptop... |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 522875 | 2007-02-07 22:55:00 | but now i just realized rather than pressing and hold the arrow key i can go ctrl+arrow key (left or right) and the curser will jump to the word before or after ..like.. it can jump one word at a time instead of going through all the charactors call me stupid if this is actually general knowledge but i don't think i've seen people mention this anywhere..and it's kinda handy too~try it out! works when i typed this or when i rename files or even when typing urls Strange really heni - I thought everybody knew this but your comments made me realise that those of us who used word processors in the early days of DOS had far simpler help files to contend with. If helping complete computer beginners we should make a point of drawing attention to this and similar systems. But please hemi an even better function, is to use the shift key with i to obtain I. It looks better, is easier to read and is not irritating to readers. Now I'm being pedantic. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 522876 | 2007-02-08 03:57:00 | I wouldn't mind going back and replace all the "i" with "I".. too bad I can't I guess I never thought of typing a forum post as something so formal that I need to make my English look perfect.. or just that MS Word gave me a bad habit~ |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 522877 | 2007-02-08 22:43:00 | I wouldn't mind going back and replace all the "i" with "I".. too bad I can't I guess I never thought of typing a forum post as something so formal that I need to make my English look perfect.. or just that MS Word gave me a bad habit~ Agreed. Forum posts are informal. But as an ex teacher, engineer etc I have been dismayed by the lowering of standards. As a teacher I should have protested more than I did when we dropped "stuff" from the syllabus because it was too hard for our students. It's not your fault heni. But when I look back at my own handwritten notes (we used carbon paper booklets) as opposed to emails these days I see no sign of misspelling, poor English, or the use of i where I was correct etc. Not that we didn't make mistakes, of course we did. My writing was also pretty bad although legible. But you only need good men (I include you heni) to do nothing and evil happens. Nice to see MSWord being blamed. I have said nasty things about it many times but must admit that it really is one heck of a good program. Tom |
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