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[DKehoe]

The other day I was helping someone with something on their computer. I pressed the windows key to bring up the start menu to do something and they said "oh, now you're just showing off" as if I'd just done something magical. I think my perplexed reaction made them realise that was not the case.

 

[JimmyF]

Because I need one arm to wank with.

 

[HoodWinked]

There are way too many people at my work that don't even know how to type without looking at the keyboard.

How do they do this.

 

[Mr Blobby]

know the basics, but gotta brush up!
one I do more often than not is win + shift + s to do a screen snip

 

[DeepEnigma]

I do for the ™ symbol since we are constantly inundated and being marketed to with appeal to authority buzzwords and/or talking points.

 

[hollams]

I found a simple Autohotkey script that lets you do simple functions with keywords. I've modified that script to perform over 120 functions that I use for my work in IT. I spent many, many hours working on it and use it 50 or more times a day and it saves me so many keystrokes it's unbelievable.

 

[TwiztidElf]

I don't mind anything listed so far in here, but the one that kills me is Ctrl-F
People literally manually scan through documents looking for key words and phrases. Mind boggling stuff.

 

[Durien]

Yeah, I have worked in a corporate environment for the better part of 24yrs now and am always amazed at how many people don't know ctrl-c and ctrl-v.

Having been in the IT industry for over 25 years these are 3 short cuts I use...

Ctrl a
Ctrl c
Ctrl v

Sometimes ctrl f to find something but Outlook uses ctrl f for something else (f'ing brilliant). Everything else i just use the UI as I have either fatfingered something too many times or just force of habit..

 

[Happosai]

There are way too many people at my work that don't even know how to type without looking at the keyboard.

How do they do this.

Probably a moot point explaining shortcuts in that case. You should pull a prank on them and color over all keys with a Sharpie and use a fine tipped white marker to create weird symbols instead of letters. Make em work for a living.

 

[CGNoire]

...yes?

I just use that free site that transform yt video into mp3.

Spotify and his montly 10 euros fee can suck my dick.

Which site?
Does it Support playlists?

 

[CGNoire]

I started using shortcuts for Photoshop 13 years ago and since then I can work up to 100x faster in many cases. The upgrade is no fucking joke.

8 days a year? ...for me I feel like its alot more than that.

I use a Xbox controller with keyboard shortcuts assigned to it via a keyboard emulator but to make sure I never forget the shortcuts I always say them to myself as I hit the corrosponding controller buttons. That way even if I dont have access to the controller and am required to use a keyboard it doesnt matter.

 

[GymWolf]

Which site?
Does it Support playlists?

I just type youtube to mp3 on google, i have no idea if it support playlists.

 

[Fermbiz]

I know this works in Word, may work in other programs. High light words, shift-F3.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Windoww key+ shift+ s to save a cropped screenshot directly to the clipboard has been a godsend for me.

I think most people in corporate environments are scared of breaking their computer they need to use for work, so they don't really explore what all can be done with them.

 

[V1LÆM]

PC is my main device (that I am typing on right now). Compared to the average person who doesn't use a PC then yeah I know more shortcuts but I wouldn't say I'm a "power user" that knows a lot of shortcuts. I can do copy, paste, cut, select all, print screen, alt/tab, ctrl/alt/del, W + R/G/L/tab, but that's probably about it. The only other shortcuts I use Function keys and those which are specific to my keyboard for controlling media playback.