Shortcuts & Keyboard Tricks

Firefox Wheel Tricks If you use Firefox and you have a scroll wheel mouse, you can do some pretty neat things in your Web browser. If you have used Firefox for awhile, you probably know that you can use tabbed browsing, which means you can create a new tab and then have several Web sites … Continue reading Firefox Wheel Tricks

Have you ever wanted to highlight a complete document or page all at once instead of dragging your mouse all the way from the bottom to the top of the page just so you can copy and paste it somewhere else? If it is two pages or more, it can get redundant to use your … Continue reading Select It All

Toggle What? Do you toggle? I mean, do you use togglekeys? Are you not sure what that means or what those are? Well, togglekeys are any keys on your keyboard that has one or more function. Some examples are the Caps Lock key, the Num Lock key and the Scroll Lock key. The Caps Lock … Continue reading Toggle What?

I'm not sure how many of you would like to use this, but I thought it would be a neat little idea to share with you all. Did you know that you can put a keyboard on your computer screen and actually type with it? If that sounds interesting to you, then follow these directions. … Continue reading On Screen Keyboard

Using F4 There are multiple uses for the F4 function located on the top row of your keyboard. First of all, you can use it to close any open applications. Just make sure the program you want to close is selected, press Alt+F4 and that window will automatically close. Now, if you're using one single … Continue reading F4: So Many Uses

Jump To It! Picture this: you’re working on a big document and you’re making some adjustments just on page 17, but you forgot something you needed on page one. So, what do you do? You end up scrolling all the way back up to the first page. Once you find what you needed, you have … Continue reading Jump To It

Want to minimize all your windows in a hurry? Win + M will do the trick! ~ Chris Fisher

Not sure what you threw away? Right-click the Recycle bin icon and choose Open to see the contents before you really delete it all! ~ Chris Fisher

Need to find a phrase on a website, in a document, or even in a file name on your PC? Ctrl + F will bring up a Find window in Windows XP and most programs. ~ Chris Fisher

Need to undo a wrongly typed keystroke? Drag-and-Dropped a program to the wrong place? In most programs, Control + Z is the Undo command. ~ Chris Fisher