Monday, June 19, 2006

i hate the mouse

I'm constantly in front of a computer at work, so it's absolutely essential that I depend on keyboard shortcuts to make my work processes much more efficient.. and to keep myself sane. Beyond the well-known Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V commands, I hope you find something useful in this list that you can start using right off the bat. Don't be selfish and contribute to the list! Shortcuts of other well-known applications are welcome.


Windows
F5: refreshes the current window
F2: renames selected object
Alt+Enter: opens the properties of the selected object
Alt+F4: closes the current window/application
Alt+Tab: cycles to another program from left to right
Alt+Tab+Shift: cycles to another program from right to left
Windows button+R: opens the Run dialog box
Windows button+D: minimizes everything and shows desktop
Windows button+E: opens Windows explorer
Windows button+C: opens Control Panel
Windows button+L: logs off Windows
Ctrl+A: selects all items in current window
Ctrl+Z: undoes previous command

Firefox
Pushing mouse scroll wheel: opens link in new tab
Ctrl+Tab: cycles tabs from left to right
Ctrl+Tab+Shift: cycles tabs from right to left
Ctrl+[1-9]: selects tab based upon position
Ctrl+T: opens up new blank tab
Ctrl+W*: closes selected tab
Ctrl+R*: refreshes page
Alt+D*: jumps to address bar
Alt+left arrow*: back
Alt+right arrow*: forward
*applicable to IE

Outlook
Ctrl+N: opens new mail message
Alt+S: sends email
Alt+R: replies to current email
Alt+W: forwards current email

Ctrl+Alt+Del^2: dollar bills start spewing from your cd/dvd drive.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

who's going to remember ALL that?! but maybe that will help me from not being so illiterate with comps. anyways, you "incompetent" person..she's your favorite korean singer, Hyori.

Andy Chon said...

ctrl+w for tab closing in firefox was the one short cut i didn't know about. thank you.