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I just found out* that shift +spacebar makes the page move up in a jump so I don't have to scroll backwards (which I hate doing) I know this now because I just googled to see if it was possible, as it seemed like a useful thing. I've been using a laptop for daily for a decade

Anyone got any other things they found out rather late in the piece?


* I suspect I did know this once and have forgotten, but why I would forget something useful like that I don't know.

So it does. I've just found out the above.

Oh my goddess! Crivvens! So it does...

I never knew that!


Now I have another button to press

Oh crepe!

Re post 2, 3, 4...


Me too


I found out a couple of years ago now ago, but the effect was the same, that on predictive texting on a mobile, if you just held the key down you got the number.

As opposed to turning off predictive text, tapping the number 3/4 times to get the number, then turning predictive text back on again, every time I wanted a number in the message.

And what happens soon after? I get a smartphone rendering this more-than-a-decade late revelation irrelevant!

And rather embarassingly and sadly, I learned this from Radio 1's Chris Moyles and associated crowd,as noteably did lots of their viewers that day).

RTFM, as they say. Aye. Right.

The windows key + D takes you to the desktop. I like that very much.

And if you press it again it takes you back to the window you were one.

"I just found out* that shift +spacebar makes the page move up in a jump"

What's wrong with using the 'Home' or 'Pg Up' key? Or the 'End' or 'Pg Dn' to go the other way?

shift+spacebar is more universal (keyboard independent), or so it seems

I've never seen a keyboard without those options.

I'm using a macbook english keyboard. Although I'm rather keyboard-flexible, seeing that I use many different computers in many different countries (French vs. Not French is the most painful difference in my experience, more than, say, German vs. UK. Or the ridiculous UK vs. Us, ha!).

Yes, we have macs here in my office and almost none of them have pagedown or home buttons.

Especially the newer ones. And I'm not sure I've ever had a laptop that has these buttons.

My laptop doesn't appear to have a 'home' or 'end' key. What are they for?

Wouldn't know about Macs. I had to use one once for work and it nearly killed me. WHERE'S THE RIGHT CLICK?????

My laptop has them on, as does my netbook.

And yes, I will keep arguing. I guess I've just been lucky. I use them more on the laptop and netbook than I ever did on a desktop.

for the Windows+D, C.

(Ubuntu has a nice wee icon in the corner of the Gnome desktop)

People keep using words I don't understand.