At the risk of stealing his thunder, I think I'll make my first blog post about Sean's latest greatest idea, the Midnight Snacks. We'll soon be offering daily video snippets, or "Snacks", for your edification. I've just recorded a few vids on one of the great unsung heroes of computing, the keyboard shortcut. Here's the cheat sheets to go along with those vids:
Favorite keyboard shortcuts
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1 – Text editing keyboard shortcuts
CTRL A, S, X, C, V, Z
CTRL Home
CTRL SHIFT End, Home
SHIFT End, Home
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2 – Window control/nav keyboard shortcuts
ALT-Tab
ALT-SHIFT Tab
Alt-F4
ALT-SHIFT n, x(, r)
Windows L, R, #… (QuickLaunch in vista, pinned in 7)
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3 – Old school "classic" text menus/kbrd shortcuts
Alt-F C to close
F N for new file (or ctrl-N)
F S to save (or ctrl-S)
F A to save as
F O to open (or ctrl-O)
F P to print (or ctrl-P)
Alt-E U to undo (or ctrl-Z)
Alt-E F to find, or F3 (or ctrl-Z)
These are still applicable even when you can't see the text menus, like in IE, and MS Office.
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