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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/22
Despite the radically different first look, lot’s of Windows 8 is the same as in Windows 7
So this Windows 7 trick works just as well in Windows 8:
This is how you get the underline character to show for Alt and other keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 (the link shows you how to do this with the mouse, but we are keyboard lovers, are’t we?):
Press the WINDOWS-U combination to open the “Ease of Access Center”
Under Explore all settings, select “Make the keyboard easier to use” by pressing TAB a couple of times, then press ENTER to select it.
Press ALT-N to select and check “Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys” under ”Make it easier to use keyboard shortcuts”
Press ALT-O to fire the OK button action.
Press ALT-F4 to close the “Ease of Access Center”
Done!
–jeroen
via: I love my keyboard; why did they hide “Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys” in Windows 7 so far away? « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff .
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26
Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Thanks Brian
–jeroen
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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 (:not the mobility center any more )
Recommended watch!
VIDEO
–jeroen
via: (12) Scott Hanselman – Google+ – The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. It’s 25 minutes… .
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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
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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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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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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.
Read the rest of this entry »
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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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