Tag Archives: Keyboard

Show the desktop

By Sherman | Published: October 13th
Yesterday I talked about using my desktop to hold files I need right now.  It’s a great way to keep everything available, but I have a LOT of applications open. Moving everything out of the way could be a pain.  Luckily there are keyboard shortcuts to help out. On the PC you can use the [...]
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Get an “F”

By Sherman | Published: September 9th
If you lost something on your computer don’t panic; “F” = find.  It’s incredibly handy once you get comfortable using it.  Whether you’re looking for a word on a web page or a file in a folder. It’s simple to use… Hit Ctrl+F.  You should see a window open with a space to start searching.  [...]
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Space Bar bliss

By Sherman | Published: September 1st
I don’t like to scroll while I read web pages, it’s too disorienting.  Instead, when I get to the bottom of the screen I hit the spacebar to move down the page. Each tap does a quick scroll of the screen so that what was on the bottom of the screen becomes the top.  It’s [...]
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Undo before anything else

By Sherman | Published: August 18th
I’ve talked about this A LOT; but “Undo” is my first stop on almost every “oops” moment on the computer. If I accidentally delete, move or rename files I didn’t mean to If text moves or changes in an email or document that I want back if something seems different on my computer but I’m [...]
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Rename a file

By Sherman | Published: August 17th
I rename more files than I care to count. And it takes a lot of time when I have to use a mouse. Thankfully there’s a really, really fast way to rename a file with the keyboard Highlight the file you want to rename and hit the F2 key on your keyboard.   You’ll notice that [...]
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