Shortcut keys

I dont think I know any shortcuts at all. I didnt know they existed. Great thread.

I love keyboard shortcuts. So old school

The most useful one my daughter taught me is:

Highlight word, heading or sentence. Then CTRL + relevant square bracket (facing left or facing right), either enlarges or makes smaller. It even works for spaces between paragraphs.

Magic!

Like Grannyknot and NanKate I find shortcuts very comforting. The most common ones I use are "ctrl C" for copy or "ctrl X" for cut then "ctrl V" for paste.

Lovely to see such enthusiastic short cutters.

What about control P - go to print

I am on a roll now !!

If you want to type fractions just type the first number e.g. 3 then leave a space then type 1/2 and press Enter, Voilà it should appear as a fraction. I doesn't work in this message box but it does in a Word document.

These are brilliant! I had no idea about the spacing shortcuts. Tomorrow will be Playtime, then Thanks for creating another excuse not to do the housework

support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/290938

support.office.com/en-us/article/Keyboard-shortcuts-for-Microsoft-Word-9a2e0234-e682-49ff-a4aa-999f07b51bf3?CTT=1&CorrelationId=edb7bbe0-ff14-431b-8ca2-11e62ec28bd2&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

support.office.com/en-gb/article/Keyboard-shortcuts-in-Excel-6a4319ef-8ea9-45d1-bd98-f238bf953ba6?CTT=5&origin=HA010378329&CorrelationId=7e3bfc07-1a65-4e6e-ace2-05ed302d1c9b&ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

Thanks crun No chores for about the next ten years now

Here's a useful one I discovered by accident: Try holding the Windows start key down while you press the arrow keys.

Before I try this Crun was does it do ?

Left arrow puts the window on the left side of the screen, right arrow on the right etc. If you want to view two windows side by side it's a lot quicker than dragging them with the mouse. I use it a lot.

Nice one Crun - never come across that before. Thanks!

I assume you know ctrl-k: copy page to a new tab, and ctrl-n: copy to a new window. I use both of those a lot too. The one I want but can't find is for yellow highlight in MS Word.

Anyone know any iPad shortcuts?

The only one I know Galen was taught to me by another clever Gransnetter. Hold you finger down on the zero number and a tiny version will come up to use for a degree sign. You just drag your finger up to it eg

30°

If you do the same with a letter requiring an accent use the same technique êęëė

Thanks Galen I didn't know that very useful, Voilá

Think it should have been Voilà

When I did a sciency OU course several years ago I got used to using all those subscripts and superscript stuff for the chemistry stuff of rocks. I would not know where to start now.