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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video (awesome 25 minutes, via: Scott Hanselman – G+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21

A couple of weeks ago, Scott Hanselman posted a great Windows 8 instructional video.

It contains all the stuff that geeks like me will find out themselves over time, but in a well paced and complete manner:

… to give new users to Windows 8 a near-complete understanding of the major features including the Start Screen, Hot Corners, Full Screen Apps, Desktop Apps, The Store, Browsing, Doing Social Stuff, using the Mouse effectively and exploiting keyboard Shortcuts.

It also shows what a power user like Scott uses besides the standard Microsoft Windows/Office combo.

Oh: and it includes the “Windows-X” shortcut (:
(no: not the mobility center any more)

Recommended watch!

–jeroen

via: (12) Scott Hanselman – Google+ – The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. It’s 25 minutes….

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AkelPad Editor: tiny, and functional. Too bad it steals the Alt-letter keyboard shortcuts

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25

Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.

It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.

Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.

Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.

They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.

So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.

–jeroen

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

F3 in Excel: Show all named ranges in Excel – via: Spreadsheet Audit & Maintenance Tip | Chandoo.org – Learn Microsoft Excel Online

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/30

In Excel I always got confused with named ranges, as I thought they were hard to track.

Not!

The F3 keyboard shortcut gives you a list of named ranges including name and location. Which makes it way easier to work with named ranges.

See the excellent post Show all named ranges in Excel: It even has an animated gif image that shows  you F3 in action.

–jeroen

via: Show all named ranges in Excel – Spreadsheet Audit & Maintenance Tip | Chandoo.org – Learn Microsoft Excel Online.

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Shotcut keys in Windows 8 (via: Technical Gallery – Krishnan Sriram)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/19

Krishnan Sriram has a very nice list of New hotkeys for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

His lists starts with the shortcuts that stayed the same; these are the ones that are new:

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Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase – The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28

How Upper Lower Comment
Keyboard CTRL + SHIFT + U CTRL + U
Menu Edit -> Advanced -> Make Uppercase Edit -> Advanced -> Make Lowercase
Command Edit.MakeUppercase Edit.MakeLowercase
Versions 2008, 2010, 11

–jeroen

via: Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase – The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

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RDP/MSTSC: keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Remote Desktop

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/21

The Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent for VMware View/Workstation/Player is very easy to remember: Ctrl+Alt+Insert.

While searching for the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent in Remote Desktop (which is Ctrl+Alt+End), I came accross the via List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP.

It includes these lists:

  • General keyboard shortcuts
  • Dialog box keyboard shortcuts
  • Microsoft natural keyboard shortcuts
  • Accessibility keyboard shortcuts
  • Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts
  • Shortcut keys for Character Map
  • Microsoft Management Console (MMC) main window keyboard shortcuts
  • MMC console window keyboard shortcuts
  • Remote desktop connection navigation
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer navigation
  • Other information

I was after the Ctrl+Alt+End shortcut from the list below which works in any Windows version I tested so far. But the other lists are very useful too.

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Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20

Scott has been posting some really good entries lately.

This is one of them: Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman.

Being a keyboard addict, I love that!

–jeroen

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6 Excel keyboard shortcut pairs I didn’t know yet: select row/select column and insert current date/time(via: The Best Shortcut Keys in Microsoft Excel)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/17

Learned a few Excel keyboard shortcut pairs today:

Shortcut Action
Ctrl+Spacebar Select columns
Shift+Spacebar Select rows
Ctrl+; Current date
Ctrl+Shift+: Current time
Ctrl+Shift+2 Format current cell as default date
Ctrl+Shift+3 Format current cell as default time

–jeroen

via:

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Windows 8 Windows-key shortcuts (via: Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese?)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27

Brilliant post on using the Window-key for shortcuts with Windows 8 (all Windows 7 Windows-key shortcuts work, plus many more): Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. – Scott Hanselman.

–jeroen

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#WordPress changed from Alt-Shift to Alt #keyboard #shortcuts and now breaks your regular browser Alt shortcuts. @wordpressdotcom

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/23

A couple of months ago, I created a nice post listing all #WordPress Editor #keyboard #shortcuts for both Windows and Mac OS X.

As of a few days ago, WordPress.com changed their Alt-Shift shortcuts into Alt shortcuts.

For instance, Alt-Shift-d (strike through) is now Alt-d, thereby blocking the original Alt-d (which for most browsers on Windows brings you to the address bar).

They violate one of the basic GUI principles: keep existing keyboard shortcuts as they are.

On Windows based browsers that means: keep Alt and Ctrl based shortcuts. Alt-Shift, Ctrl-Shift and Ctrl-Alt-Shift shortcuts are OK.

I haven’t tested WordPress on my MacBook air yet (as I don’t think the end-users should be the WordPress.com beta testers, though they probably think the world at large is a big beta-test garden).

I have asked WordPress.com to change the shortcuts back to what they were.

–jeroen

via: #WordPress Editor #keyboard #shortcuts « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.

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