hit meh! with your leet keyboard skills (the mouse is so 20th century)

[sophiaserpentia]

If you've got keyboard shortcut tips -- on Windows, Firefox, other popular applications, please share them! The less I have to use a mouse, the less pain I'm in.

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[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I find the best thing to do is print out a long list of shortcut commands and then highlight some of things you do most often. It's best to memorize a few at a time.

Many of them are the same from one application to another, for example, control-a will highlight all the text in a document. control-x to cut, control-c to copy, control-v to paste.

A good one, if you don't already know it -- in firefox (or IE probably) control-d takes you to the URL at the top of the screen. If you start typing a web site you frequently use, that URL will appear pretty quickly and then you can just hit enter to accept. A good way to switch from one web site to another without touching the mouse.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

This is what I've been doing... just examining my tasks as they come to my attention and wondering, "Hmm, I wonder if there's a way to do this with the keyboard instead?"

Ctrl-D -- that's very helpful. One I learned yesterday is Ctrl-K which takes you to the search field.

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't know about Ctrl-K. I'm going to make that the one I try to memorize this week.

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Here's another one, in case you don't know it: ctrl-N will open a new version of firefox. Then you can toggle between both firefox windows using alt-tab.