Computer tips and tricks. FAO Chuck, Buenchino etc.

[flobadob]

Has anyone any useful little tricks and tips that people wouldn't know? For example someone, I think chuckfickens, said once that by holding ctrl and + or - you can enlarge or reduce the webpage you are viewing which I found cool. Are there any others?

[Hopkirk]

It is easier to press Ctrl and roll the scroll wheel

[boxtops]

There are loads, flob, I'm still learning, and most of them I find out about by accident, or by courtesy of a mate. I have never had IT training in my life and yet it's such an important part of the working day - and home life too, now.

[grasscarp]

sometimes if there is no right click menu for paste, when you are cutting and pasting, you can get it to paste by using control and V at the same time. However, this does not always work.

[Hopkirk]

Press F11 and see what happens.

Press F11 again to return to normal

[sherrardk]

I always use ctrl and C for copy and ctrl and V for paste as I used to use a real computer and now use a laptop with one of those mouse pad things rather than a real mouse and I have had trouble getting used to it.

[Mr k]

ctrl & Atl & F11 you get a full screen all the address bars go

[tamborine]

try Ctrl & Alt and arrow :)

[Hopkirk]

Why bother with Ctrl and Alt, Mr K?

F11 on its own does it.

[Mr k]

So it does lol

[flobadob]

F11 is cool. tamborine that scared the bejaysus out of me for a sec.

[wolf63]

I don't have "Function" keys on my MacBook - and there is no "Delete" button either.

Well - I haven't found the delete button yet.

[Hopkirk]

I don't get Tamborine's one. Which arrow key is it?

[mike11111]

One I find useful is the 'Windows' key (2 to the left of the space bar) + M. This minimises all windows and shows the desktop.

[flobadob]

Hopkirk, try it with the down arrow.

[Hopkirk]

No luck. Never mind.

I'll try it on a different computer tomorrow.

[flobadob]

Nice one mike.

[carlton23]

I`ve found these to be quite useful:
Ctrl+A.....Select All.... A quick key-press selects the entire contents of an open window.
Ctrl+C....Copy.....Make copies of files,folders, text or pictures.
Ctrl+X.....Cut......Use this to move parts of a text document or picture to a different place.
Ctrl+V ....Paste...Paste files text or graphics where you want to after using Cut or Copy.
Ctrl+Esc..Display the Start menu.
Hope these help.

[tamborine]

carlton....when r u getting an avator ?

[carlton23]

tamborine. I try and try, but for some unknown reason it goes through all the procedure and even sends me an e-mail that I click my aknowledgemeant to, but.... `nuffint`... so I have given up trying.

[tamborine]

I recall losing sleep trying to set up your avator....r u on firefox or IE ?