Comments on: 90 Percent of US Doesn’t Know CTRL+F http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Mon, 20 May 2013 23:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jon http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-13193 Jon Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:12:31 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-13193 Ctrl + Mouse Scroll up/down – Zoom in/out of most browsers, graphics work, and MS Office, and even the desktop. Same function as Ctrl +up/down but I often have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse. I don’t think this was an option on XP.

Alt + Cursor left/right moves you Back and Forward in browsers and Windows Explorer.

Alt + Space + M – Minimize the current window… works great from the “home typing position” to quickly hide from the boss what you REALLY do on company time.

]]> By: Swiss Army Librarian » Reference Question of the Week – 9/18/11 :: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3918 Swiss Army Librarian » Reference Question of the Week – 9/18/11 :: Brian Herzog Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:21:45 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3918 [...] headphones either. To double-check, I visited the Sony's product webpage for this television. I did Ctrl+F to search for headphone on the page, but there was no mention – and disappointing product images, [...]

]]> By: Swiss Army Librarian » Handout of Basic Keyboard Shortcuts :: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3662 Swiss Army Librarian » Handout of Basic Keyboard Shortcuts :: Brian Herzog Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:43:59 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3662 [...] of Basic Keyboard Shortcuts    September 6th, 2011 Thanks everyone who contributed their favorite keyboard shortcuts. I picked what I thought were the most helpful for someone fairly new to computers, and put [...]

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3604 Brian Herzog Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:08:30 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3604 @Oleg: You are welcome – it’s a little tricky, but I’m sure you’ll get used to it quickly. Something else you can do with tabs is drag and drop them to rearrange them – I do this all the time, too.

]]> By: Oleg K. http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3589 Oleg K. Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:21 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3589 Neat list.

I use pretty much all of those but hadn’t heard of ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab for Firefox. I’ve been opening several FF windows in order to alt+tab it for toggling ease, but now I don’t have to! Thanks!

]]> By: Patty http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3582 Patty Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:17:26 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3582 Ctrl F is great, but the greatest is Ctrl Z in word processing. As soon as you/they realize they’ve messed up their document, Ctrl Z to the rescue.

]]> By: Swiss Army Librarian » Reference Question of the Week – 8/21/11 :: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3541 Swiss Army Librarian » Reference Question of the Week – 8/21/11 :: Brian Herzog Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:37:28 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3541 [...] I was reading The Atlantic article about people not knowing about Ctrl+F, the last paragraph mentioned Google’s AGoogleADay.com campaign. I had never heard of this, [...]

]]> By: Cam http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3526 Cam Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:56:31 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3526 Recently had someone ask how to refresh a page (the new appearance of explorer was throwing him off) and taught him F5.

The ones I use constantly and windows-left arrow and windows-right arrow to create split screens. Have taught that one to some coworkers. This, though, only works on newer windows versions, 7 definitely. Not sure about Vista. Does not work in XP.

]]> By: Megan W. http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3502 Megan W. Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:44:29 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3502 Ctrl+A – Select all Is a good one for the list. It is handy for copy and pasting, especially for patrons that are not great with a mouse yet. Useful for when you want to copy a large amount of text but have trouble getting it all highlighted when the page needs to scroll. But I agree that keeping the list short and basic is a good idea. So go minimal vs. comprehensive.

]]> By: Chris Skaryd http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/08/23/90-percent-of-us-doesnt-know-ctrlf/#comment-3485 Chris Skaryd Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:36:34 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2388#comment-3485 More browser shortcuts (for non-IE decent browsers):

Ctrl-T – New Tab
Ctrl-W – Close Tab
Ctrl-Shift-T – Reopen closed tabs. (Can be done more than once)
Ctrl-Shift-N or Ctrl-Shift-P will get you into Privacy mode depending on the browser
Ctrl-Shift-Del in most will get you a window to delete cookies, temporary files, etc.
Ctrl-D – bookmark the current page
Ctrl-H – show history

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