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Am I the only one thinking 'not often enough...'?

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Hey, Controlling Z is my job!

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Question: when you control Z, do things get undone?

Oh Christ I'd hit "Post" on that one before I'd thought through all the possible implications. Sorry. Undo. Take back. Delete. Eek!

Cntl and Z even.


I'm struggling with the implications of that one..

The thing is, will we ever Shift-Z?

I've just tried 'Shift and Z' nothing happened.

>> Question: when you control Z, do things get undone?

Any response to this is not safe for work....

Have you tried depressing the 'F' key?

I often find if you want to Shift Z, you need to tell him to F off first.

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"Have you tried depressing the 'F' key?"

Hey, F key - the banking system is screwed, global warming's accelerating, the oil's running out, we're no nearer solving how to do fusion, the euro's likely to collapse and probably in a few years China will rule the world. Also, you look fat.

That should do it.

Most unsuitable qotd no 42....

I like the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V combo
and Alt+Tab

is there a definitive list of the keyboard shortcuts? I relly don't like using a mouse.

Now, see, I use MS Office so rarely that I can't remember most of these shortcuts. My working day is spend in a code editor (WeBuilder, since you don't ask), and about six different browsers.

TRiG.

I don't keep them in my brain, my fingers know them.

The new one I had to learn for changing windows within an application (as opposed to alt-tab for changing between applications) is Alt-F-W but I think that's a German version because W stands for "Wechseln" which means change. And the F stands for "Fenster" which is Window.

I change between tabs of an application using Ctrl-Page Up and Ctrl-Page Down.

that's what the windows-tab thing did, isn't it?

eek - I mean Strg+Tab
Alt+Tab was the different applications

Ctrl-Page Up and Ctrl-Page Down. I never thought of trying that in Word. In Excel it takes you from one sheet to the next within a spreadsheet file.

tap - tap - tap....

No, it doesn't work in the German version.