The Big Keyboard Shortcut List&all Tips

4. The BIG Keyboard Shortcut List What is the allure of keyboard shortcuts? Do they really save time? Why bother since my mouse is permanently attached to my hand? I like to use keyboard shortcuts, especially if someone is watching me, because they make me look like a pro. With just a few key strokes I can leave a mouser spinning his wheel! Whatever your motivation, here's a big list of keyboard shortcuts: GENERAL SHORTCUTS ALT- F4 - Quit a program / Shut down ALT-TAB - Hold down the ALT key and hit tab to cycle through open windows. CTL-ESCAPE - Display the Start menu SHIFT - TAB - tab backwards through a form CTRL - X - Cut CTRL - C - Copy CTRL - V - Paste F1 - Help menu CTRL - Z - Undo SHIFT & Restart - To restart just windows and not your whole computer, hold down the shift key when you click the OK button on the shutdown screen. Saves lots of time. (not for XP) CRTL-TAB - Navigate tabs on a tabbed screen FILE & DESKTOP SHORTCUTS Hold SHIFT while inserting a CD - Prevents the CD from "autorunning" If an item is selected: CTRL while dragging a file - Copies the file CTRL - SHIFT while dragging a file - Creates a shortcut to the file SHIFT - DELETE - Deletes an item without sending it to the recycle bin. ALT-ENTER - Display a file's properties. F2 - To rename the file

5. In Windows Explorer: LEFT ARROW - Collapse the current selection if it is expanded NUM LOCK-MINUS SIGN (-) - Collapse the selected folder RIGHT ARROW - Expand the current selection if it is collapsed -Or- Select the first subfolder NUM LOCK- * Expand all folders below the current selection NUM LOCK- PLUS SIGN (+) - Expand the selected folder F6 - Switch between left and right panes 6. In My Computer: BACKSPACE - View the folder one level up ALT- RIGHT ARROW - Move forward to a previous view ALT- LEFT ARROW -Move backward to a previous view 7. INTERNET BROWSER SHORTCUTS For Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 7 (may work in older versions) Open History Window Reload Back (Previous Page) Forward (Next Page) Stop Home Go to Bottom of Page Go to Top of Page New Window Close WIndow Go Up one Line Go Down One Line Full Screen (toggle) Find on Page Add Current Page to Favorites Print Current Page or Active Frame Organize Favorites (IE)/ Manage Bookmarks (NS) Maximize a Window Minimize a window Scroll page up Scroll page down

Ctrl+H Ctrl+R Alt+Left Arrow or Alt+Backspace Alt+RIght Arrow Esc Alt+Home End Home Ctrl+N Ctrl+W Up Arrow Down Arrow F11 Ctrl+F Ctrl+D Ctrl+P Ctrl+B Alt+Space+x Alt+Space+N Alt+Up Arrow Alt+Down Arrow

8. Internet Explorer ONLY Open Favorites Bar

Ctrl+I

Select text in address bar Force Reload (not from cache)

Alt+D Ctrl+F5

9. Netscape ONLY Open / Close Sidebar Panel (toggle) F9 Select text in Location Bar Ctrl+L Force Reload (not from Cache) Ctrl+Shift+R Zoom Text Smaller Ctrl+- (minus) Zoom text larger Ctrl+= (plus sign) 10. WINDOWS KEY SHORTCUTS The Windows key can be used in conjunction with other keys to act as a keyboard shortcut for faster access to menu commands. Now, while the Alt key tends to open program menus (ex: Alt+F opens the File menu and Alt+E opens the Edit menu) and the Ctrl key performs actual operations (ex: Ctrl+C will copy and Ctrl+V will paste), the Windows key will open various Windows tools... Win key + R will open the Start menu's Run box Win key + F will open the Start menu's Find window Win key + E will quickly launch Explorer Win key + Pause/Break will open the System Properties window Win key + M will Minimize all windows Win key + Shift + M will undo Minimize all windows Win key + D will switch between minimizing all open programs and showing them all Win key + Tab will cycle through items on the taskbar Win key by itself will open the Start menu You can also open programs or folders on your desktop by pressing the Windows key + the first letter of the program/folder/shortcut + Enter . Sounds kinda tedious, but if you're in a bind with your mouse, it can come in quite handy 11. ARROW TRICKS Here's a cool little arrow trick to try with word processing programs. Next time you're using your arrow keys to go from one area of a sentence to another (left and right arrows), hold down your CTRL key. Instead of moving one space at a time, you'll go one word at a time. If you're using the up and down arrows to go from line to line, holding down the CTRL key will make your cursor jump from paragraph to paragraph (well, from carriage return to carriage return anyway). One last thing, if you hold down the SHIFT key while you do this (i.e. hold down SHIFT + CTRL at the same time), you select text as you arrow along. I've tested this in MS Word and Wordpad, but it *should* work no matter what word processing program you use. 12. HOME / END KEY FUN

Do you ever find yourself scrolling through a huge folder ? Well, if you need to get to the beginning or the end quickly, just press Ctrl+Home . If you want to get to the end, click Ctrl+End .

Hey, that's not all! This little trick works on more than just folders. If you use the Home key in a word processor, it goes to the beginning of the line you're currently working on. If you hit the END key, it should head to the end of the current line. If you pair Home & End up with the Ctrl key in a word processor, you will be whisked away to the beginning or end of the document. Again, this should work, but it depends on your word processor.

13. Don't touch that mouse! If you are a decent typist, you probably find it annoying to hop constantly between the keyboard and your mouse. I find it irritating and I'm not even that great of a typist! So, here are a couple of ways to help keep your fingers safely at the keyboard. Here's a trick for generating a "right-click" from your keyboard. Make sure your cursor is where you want it and hit the SHIFT & F10 keys together(u will get the corresponding right menu). You can then use your arrow keys to select the menu option you need (hit ENTER once you have made the selection).

Since the most common task for a right-click is to copy a selection of text (something normally done with a mouse), it would appear that the above tip is fairly worthless. However, I wouldn't put in a tip like that, now would I?? To make the above tip more useful, you'll need to know how to select text with your keyboard. Fortunately, that's easy enough; just use your arrow keys while holding down the SHIFT key. Who needs a mouse anyway??

14.Check Available Disk Space We get readers wanting to know how do do this all the time. To see how much space you have left, open the My Computer icon on your desktop (or under the Start menu for XP users) and right-click the drive you are curious about (for most people, this would be their C: drive, but this trick works with any drive). Select Properties from the resulting menu. You could also hold down the Alt key and double click the drive you want to open Properties.

You'll get a handy little pie chart showing you how much disk space is left

See? Easy as pie! BTW: If you try this with a CD (or CD-R) it will show full—even if it isn't.

In Outlook Express, follow the usual procedure for inserting a picture, but with a twist. Under "Picture Source" Paste (CTRL+V) the online picture location.

From there, just handle it like any other image file. With Netscape 7.0 Mail, follow the usual procedure, but paste the web address into the "Image Location" box

Adjustments can be made just as you would with an image file from your hard drive. Keep in mind that if the website removes the picture or changes the location on their server it will not show up in the email anymore. If you send this type of email to someone using MSN/Hotmail they will probably get a red X unless you are in their address book.

15.Use a Signature File for E-Mail SUMMARY: How to add contact information at the end of your e-mail messages. If you write a lot of electronic mail, or if you use electronic mail for business purposes, it can grow very cumbersome to retype all of your contact information at the end of your messages (you do insert contact information at the end of E-Mail, don€t you)? Thus, study your electronic mail package's man pages or documentation and look for a signature or .sig file. A signature file is a line or several lines of text that automatically get appended to all your outgoing E-Mail messages. This file can contain your name, contact information, organizational affiliations, fax number (if so desired), and other information. Use a signature file instead of manually retyping your information - this way, you can cut down on misspellings

16. Changing Addresses? Let Others Know SUMMARY: Planning on changing e-mail addresses soon? Here's what you should know. Switching ISPs, changing jobs, or leaving school? If so, you probably are going to be using a different e-mail address soon. If so, make sure you tell people with whom you converse with that you address is changing! E-mail addresses will not get automatically forwarded over like postal mail does with the US Postal Service. Therefore, if you talk with someone or subscribe to a mailing list with your old address, once you change addresses, all new mail from said individuals/organization would never reach you unless you tell them about your address change.

17.Recovering Deleted Emails SUMMARY: Deleted some e-mail and you want to have it back? Recovering it is not an easy task, and sometimes it isn't possible. This tip, however, may provide some suggestions. If you delete an email message using one of the more popular email programs and need to recover it, you may have hope. Most email programs have a "Deleted" folder or "Recycle Bin". Just navigate to that folder and see if your old email is there. If the email is NOT present in this folder, you have a couple of possible choices. If you know some information about the email (such as its sender's e-mail address, time, date, subject, etc.) you *may*, with the help of a nice and friendly ISP, be able to have them recover the message. It's a long shot, but it may work. You also may want to consider purchasing a file undelete program such as Norton's Utilities. Such software can, in some instances, recover deleted files such as e-mails. Recovering deleted e-mails is NOT an easy task, but it is possible with a lot of help and a lot of luck. The moral is - be careful before deleting email, especially permanently from a "Recycle Bin" or "Deleted" folder.

18.Request Receipts on Particular E-Mail Messages SUMMARY: Have Outlook 2003 attempt to require delivery or read receipts for email. To request a delivery and/or read receipt for a particular e-mail message without changing the defaults for all e-mail messages, do the following: 1. While composing an e-mail message, choose "File" - "Properties". 2. When the "Properties" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the tab "General". 3. As desired, check "Read receipt requested" and/or "Delivery receipt requested". 4. Click "OK" to close the dialog box. Note that not everyone honors return receipt requests. Of particular note: if a user is not running Outlook 2003, their e-mail software probably will not honor such requests.