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.
Just enabling Dark Mode in MS Office apps makes me god emperor of technology at work.
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.
What's a windows key? Proper keyboards have modifier keys named shift, ctrl, meta, super and hyper.
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.
I worked with this kid born in the year 2000 for about 11 months. He was in very loose terms "IT", when he was typing ont he keyboard hed always hit the caps lock to type something in upper case, and when I questioned him on why he did that he responded "what do you do? Hold shift?" In a tome that implied I was somehow the weird one. He also had trouble typinh any symbols on the number row and had to be told to hold shift.
Believe it or not this incompetent IT guy was fired for his incompetence in IT (and shitty people skills)
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.How OP felt:
