• ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
      20·
      5 days ago

      Yes! Someone saw me add 😎 to a document I was grading once and it blew their mind. “Wait! What did you just do? How did you get that menu?” I try to teach people, but they almost never remember. They praise me for my navigation skills, but they don’t care to learn basic stuff like alt+tab/shift+alt+tab/win+tab.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Fun thing about the switch apps forward/backwards keys is shifted tab is back tab, so alt+tab is switch forward and alt+back tab is switch backwards

        So useful when switching back and forth between two programs

        I feel like shortcut knowledge is more about willingness to explore the machine than generations. I’m gen X.

    • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      I discovered this at work when I fat fingered Winkey + L. No work was done that day.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’ll have to try that, but I’ve been using Win+;. It opens an emoji picker and puts the focus in a search field so you can type “shrug” or something and often just hit Enter to choose the single result.

      It’s ; as in ;)

      At least, thats how I like to think of it.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        20 hours ago

        It’s the same. The windows shortcuts page has

        Windows Key + Period (.) or Semicolon (;) - Open emoji panel.

    • filcuk
      9·
      5 days ago

      Which annoyingly only has a small subset of the emojis, making me have to use seach anyway.
      Better than nothing I guess.

    • JasonDJ
      2·
      4 days ago

      Typing (windows) in Teams helpfully replaces the word with a dinosaur 🦖 icon.

  • Bob@feddit.nl
    29·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      5 days ago

      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.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
      20·
      5 days ago

      That’s a reverse keyboard shortcut.

      Here’s another one: When you have multiple windows open, grab one by the title bar with a click-and-hold and shake it around with your mouse. This will cause all your open windows except the one you grabbed to minimize.

      I don’t know how the fuck anyone is meant to discover that naturally, or what would possess anyone to even try. I think someone at Microsoft just put it in there as a joke, so people can incessantly post this exact same “did you know this thing about Windows???” thing on the internet constantly.

      In other news, double clicking the window menu (in the upper left, aka the “staple box”, which later became the mini-icon in Windows 95 and later) to this very day is a shortcut to close a window that nobody who isn’t old enough to remember what 5.25" floppy disks looked like will know about. This is a holdover from, I believe, Windows 2.0. But it still works in modern Windows to this very day.

      • snapcatcher@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        4 days ago

        I have to disable the shake gesture on machines that I regularly use because I often trigger it by accident. I don’t even know how, but it happens often enough to be annoying.

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      In highschool I blew my HTML teacher’s mind when I showed her this. She had been manually resizing windows for years.

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
        9·
        5 days ago

        To be fair, window snapping in Windows is a rather recent feature. I think it was introduced in Windows 7.

    • Tower@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 days ago

      This is what I do. Without looking it up, I have a whisper of a thought that win + arrow is used to, like, rotate the screen or switch monitors or something…

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    64·
    5 days ago

    Sometimes it’s something simple like CTRL-C, then CTRL-V and the person watching you is like: wait how did you do that?!

    • 50MYT@lemmy.world
      321·
      5 days ago

      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).

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
        27·
        5 days ago

        You joke.

        I highly doubt that was a joke. It is unsettlingly common among even those who use computers daily.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      9·
      5 days ago

      Haha I remember someone at a front desk grumbling about how they couldn’t find the clock, and without looking at their screen I asked them to press F11. The way they looked at me when that solved it was priceless.

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
        14·
        5 days ago

        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 ;)

        • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          3 days ago

          Well, depends on the clipboard manager or desktop environment what the default shortcut is. On KDE, it is Win+V.

          • Troy@lemmy.ca
            1·
            4 days ago

            I presumed KDE Plasma. But there is so many variations among linux desktops and distros :)

  • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Win - Tab for the overview, you can then add virtual desktops in the top row. switching between them with Ctrl-Win-L/R-Arrow.
    Works the same on the current KDE :-)
    I have bound the switching to modifierkey (on the mouse)-Mousewheel L/R, so i can switch desktops with the mouse only :-)
    Now if Windows and KDE would just remember which programs belong on which desktop, that would be nice.

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    14·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • tigeruppercut
      12·
      4 days ago

      I had to write an essay in an exam setting once and all the keyboard controls like that were disabled. Worst 20 minutes ever

    • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Even better:

      Win + Space (Win or Super + Space in Linux also) changes keyboard languages. I’m not seeing that anywhere in here either.

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        4 days ago

        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.

        • portuga@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          You can delete keyboard languages you don’t want, and that won’t happen anymore (because you narrow the choice)

          I write in portuguese and english mostly, when keys fall out of place it’s because I accidentally pressed win+space (rare) but just do it again

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 days ago

      Long IT nerd here, I’ve known about those shortcuts for a long time. Its interesting as I left the IT industry about 12 years ago and work in an unrelated field. Half the time I talk to our tech support guys, I know more than them. My fellow colleaugues think I’m like Merlin the magician.

    • Scribbd@feddit.nl
      4·
      4 days ago

      Yes, but it is also sometimes something different. I have it in muscle memory, and sometimes have to retype everything because I accidentally navigate the browser back one step…

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        20 hours ago

        I like Emacs’ kill shortcuts. Kill a line, kill a word, kill a paragraph

        Though I don’t do much in Emacs other than code

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    47·
    5 days ago

    For the absolute longest time (at least from Windows 95 through Windows 7, perhaps even later version but I dunno on that), every now and then after you exit a game, you can’t properly drag and drop nor double click anything on the desktop.

    Eventually I found a particular game that would consistently cause this issue, which got me wondering what all the game was doing upon exit. I theorized that maybe it left the keyboard buffer in something of a goofy state.

    So, I started with the thought that Windows must be thinking that a key is still being held down when it wasn’t. And sure enough, just tapping the Esc key managed to refresh the keyboard buffer and resolve the issue.

    You should easily be able to see the effects of this bug manually by holding down Esc and trying to use the mouse, stuff just ain’t gonna work right. So if you ever happen to encounter this bug, just tap the Esc key to refresh the keyboard buffer.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    5 days ago

    fun fact: old school command-line users know all about keyboard shortcuts and we love them. We just never became managers, because fuck that.

  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
    17·
    5 days ago

    I’m the Hackerman of my workplace by using shift+tab to jump one cell to the left in Excel.

    tab --> cell to the right ist selected (next cell)

    shift+tab --> cell to the left is selected (previous cell)