Keyboard Tips N Tricks
This is the page for keyboard tips and will updated weekly as we add loads more for you. This page was set up for beginners, in fact there is no such thing. If you cant spend a lot of time in front of your pc then you don't get the chance to learn the little tricks that we get hold of and have mastered over the years. Some of you advanced user like myself may find this section useful as well as when I was doing the page I came across 2 additions I got hold of from a friend I was not aware of and will be using now. So alas as I say here is a few tips and I hope it is of use to you at some point. Click on the orange txt header and it will take you right the part of how to do it.
Make your screen flash and your computer beep when you hit Caps Lock A faster way to get to your system properties. Undo those mistakes faster and easier. Control web page fonts with your wheel mouse. An easier way to find what you are looking for. Use Ctrl to move quickly through your folders with this tip. Return to where you left off with this document trick. Oops.. did you mess up? Undo it.
Make your screen flash and your computer beep when you hit Caps Lock Don't you hate it when you accidentally hit the Caps Lock key? What if you could set your computer up so it alerts you when your pinky finger wanders off and taps the Caps Lock key? With this tip, I'll show you how to make your computer beep & flash the next time it happens. The first thing you'll need to do is get the computer to beep when you hit the Caps Lock key. Here's how: 1. Click the Start button, Settings, Control Panel (XP Users, hit the Start button, Control Panel). Open the Accessibility Options Icon. 2. On the Keyboard tab, click the "Use Toggle Keys" checkbox. That's it for the beeping part. Next, we need to get your screen to flash you, err, flash at you. Here's how: 1. From the Accessibility Options screen, click the Sound tab and check the "Use SoundSentry" checkbox. 2. Next click the Settings button and select "Flash active window" from the "Warning for windowed programs" drop down box. That's it. Hit OK until you're clear of property and settings screens. Open your favorite word processor and hit your Caps Lock key. A faster way to get to your system properties. Need to get to your system properties? Well, you *could* click the Start button, Settings, Control Panel, then open the System icon. Want a faster way? Hold down the ALT key and double click the My Computer icon on your desktop Undo those mistakes faster and easier. If you use
computers a lot, you probably find yourself out in the real CTRL-Z CTRL-Z is
normally used in word processing documents, but it also works Works with
Windows Explorer too. Let's say you accidentally delete a Control web page fonts with your wheel mouse. Do you have one of those handy little wheel mice? If so, here's a cool trick for Internet Explorer that you'll like. Have you ever found yourself on a web page with a font so tiny it was almost unreadable? Well, don't strain your eyes a moment longer. Next time you visit a page like that, hold down your CTRL key and roll the wheel on your wheel mouse. You'll find that you can increase / decrease the font size as fast as your finger can spin that little wheel. Don't have a wheel mouse you say? Well, there's another way to increase the size of your fonts. Just hit the View menu, Text Size, and you'll get a sub menu that lets you choose a larger or smaller font. Oh, one more thing. If you start messing around with font sizes, you may discover the web site you're looking at doesn't display quite right. Most of the time us web designers create the site to look good based on a certain font size. An easier way to find what you are looking for. You're looking for something on a long web page with Internet Explorer. You think it's there, but you're faced with seemingly insurmountable number of paragraphs, sentences, and words to hunt though. Well, next time this happens to you, hit the Edit menu, Find (or CTRL-F for you shortcut lovers). You'll get a handy little "find" box that lets you type in a specific word. After you type in your search term, hit the Find Next button and Explorer will look for that word on the page. If it's successful, you'll be taken right to it. Use Ctrl to move quickly through your folders with this tip. Do you ever find yourself scrolling through a huge folder? If you need to get to the beginning or the end quickly, just press CTRL - HOME. If you want to get to the end, click CTRL - END. This little trick works on more than just folders. If you use the HOME key in a word processor, it probably goes to the beginning of the line you're currently working on. If you hit the END key, it should head to the end of the current line. Use HOME & END with the CTRL key in a word processor to go to the beginning or end of a document. Return to where you left off with this document trick. Have you ever been working on a large document in MS Word? You know, one of those really long, several day projects that we all love? The bad thing (as if a several day project isn't bad enough) is when you open the document, your cursor sits at the very top. You end up scrolling all over the place just to figure out where you left off. Hmm, but do you have to? Nope, just hit SHIFT - F5 and you'll be transported to the position your cursor was at when you saved the document (be it top, bottom, or middle). Right click with your keyboard. Here's a trick for generating a "right-click" from your keyboard. Make sure your cursor is where you want it and hit the SHIFT & F10 keys together. You can then use your arrow keys to select the menu option you need (hit ENTER once you have made the selection). To make the above tip more useful, you'll need to know how to select text with your keyboard. Fortunately, that's easy enough; just use your arrow keys while holding down the SHIFT key. Oops.. did you mess up? Undo it. First, if you make a mistake, hit CTRL-Z. In most programs, that will undo whatever it was that you just did. Bad thing is that many programs only give you one or two of these undos. Then you're stuck - or are you? One clever way to make sure you can always go back is to save your file frequently - especially if you're about to make some big changes. Then if you really mess up good, just close the file and DON'T SAVE IT. When you open it back up, you'll be back to the way it was when you last saved. This is really handy if you're playing around with image manipulation and are "testing" different effects. If you want to take this to the next level, you may want to save your file under a different name each time. After all, when it comes to computers, you just can't be too paranoid :-)
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