Since we're talking about Windows:
WinKey + .
to open up the secret emoji/symbols toolbox. 🫛
It does the same thing on KDE Plasma!
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.
Which annoyingly only has a small subset of the emojis, making me have to use seach anyway.
Better than nothing I guess.
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 ;)
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.)
There's nothing wrong with asking easily searchable questions in threads. Either one person can ask and one person can answer or EVERYONE can search it on their own.
Yup! Also we're on social media - may as well be social with eachother.
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
I am rustled by this comment more than I should be.
Fuck that noise
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.
Millennials trying to act like Gen Xers don’t know shortcuts? Whatever.
More that Gen X doesn't exist; it seems to go Boomers, Millenials, Gen Z
Ikr? We were learning keyboard based commands because mice weren't a thing at the time. Even filthy casuals picked up some over the decades
I remember those WordPerfect paper templates you'd put over the keyboard to list all the shortcuts.
no it's the normal erasure of gen x from the timeline
The timeline goes
Old dead boomers
Dying wealthy boomers
Young poor boomers
Gen y
Millennials
Gen z
Gen alpha
The fact that Windows still doesn't have a shortcut to move windows between Virtual Desktops is mind boggling to me. I had to download an AHK script just to replicate basic features included in KDE, Gnome and probably most of the tiling WMs.
Ctrl+Win+[Left or Right Arrow]
(Edit: misread the comment, shortcut is still valid for moving focus between virtual desktops)
To be fair, windows literally didn't have virtual desktops until a version or two ago. Which is mind boggling given Linux had it in the 90s
Just enabling Dark Mode in MS Office apps makes me god emperor of technology at work.
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
I use tab to fill out forms and people think I'm hackerman.
You pull out shift-tab and they will think you're some Jedi that has jumped through time. I just go with it and tell them it's beautiful and peaceful where I'm from, but I needed to show them the ways of the forms. May the forms be with you!
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)
This is a standard shortcut and works most places where Tab works. Forms, buttons, etc.
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
Using Autohotkey, fancy zones, and Greenshots makes you look like an actual wizard
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).
I very rarely use that feature so I forget the windows+arrow shortcut. My favorite shortcuts are shift+arrow when inputting text to highlight text, ctrl+arrow to skip text by word (left and right, but ctrl with up and down mimic home and end keys) and the combination ctrl+shift+arrow to highlight one word at a time. I also like ctrl+shift+esc to pop open task manager directly instead of using ctrl+alt+delete and then selecting task manager.
Oh yeah, and taking a screenshot with windows+shift+s. I think Windows 11 added windows+shift+r to record video.
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