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kopend | 15:08 Mon 01st Sep 2014 | Technology
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what do all the ctrl + a letter options do

i.e ctrl + p = print
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by the looks of it, ctrl a is 'select all'.
oooh, just tested it, it is select all
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Interesting post, does anyone also know what function the F numbered keys carry out?
The only one I know is that f5 refreshes the page,
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My f keys have pictures above them. On my old laptop, f5 was a refresh button. On this (windows 8, don't know if that make a difference?), it seems to disable my mouse - I keep making the same friggin' mistake and accusing my mousepad of disappearing . I don't know how accurate this link is http://ctrlf5.net/?p=264
The ones I use most are ctrl+a (select all) ctrl+c (copy) ctrl+v, but I use quite a few more in Photoshop - saves a lot of faffing about.
i suspect programmers can programme any key to do any reasonable thing, but there is probably an MS suggested/recommended list in order to encourage consistency across programmes running on the Windows OS.
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Back in the old days when BBC B computers were introduced into schools (remember them?), you could programme an f key to remember a chunk of text. This was very useful when phrases were regularly repeated.
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i use ctrl f for find i.e on a price in a price list

say there are 10,000 items it makes it easy to find what item you need

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