I don't know who suggested this some months ago but the Home (to get to the top) and the End (to get to the bottom) are hugely useful. Thanks. I just tried out the Page up and Page down buttons on my keyboard. It just moves you a screenful at a time.
It works on all the sites that I have tried it so far.
Funny how you learn things like that. I used to work for a guy who walked into my office and said "let me show you the coolest thing, if you hit the shift key it will capitalize just one letter".
Wow, he had been using the caps lock key for who knows how many years.
Just set you wheel to a high number of lines and use it. This also makes others really upset when they try to use your computer and will likely not use it anymore!!
Those are features built in to the browsers, so they should work everywhere.
For the record, there is a "back to top" link at the bottom of all pages here. 🙂
Here's a couple more:
Do you know that holding the "Windows" key (left of the ALT) and pressing the "D" key minimizes your windows and goes to the Desktop?
And the "Windows" key plus "E" opens a Windows Explorer window...
I use these all the time but find that a lot of folks don't know about them or use them.
I also recently figured out that holding CTRL while rolling the mouse wheel makes the browser window larger or smaller. My mom was most impressed by that discovery 🙂
Wow. The CNTRL and Mouse was the hoots. Kinda dangerous though.
I'd be a happy man if I could press 'Prt Scr' and it worked.
> I'd be a happy man if I could press 'Prt Scr' and it worked.
I don't know about that...but try this. Press [Ctrl]+[Pring Scrn} at the same time. That will capture whatever is on your screen into your clipboard. Then go to a document (word, or anything else) and "paste". It will past the snapshot you took of your screen there. you can print from there, and/or save that snapshot to whatever medium you are in.
And if you do ALT + Print Screen it only captures the top window (not the entire screen) to your clipboard.
I use SnagIt by TechSmith for my screen caps. I think it's $35 but it's well worth it for me.
I prefer the Screengrab! addon for Firefox.
> I also recently figured out that holding CTRL while rolling the mouse wheel makes the browser window larger or smaller. My mom was most impressed by that discovery 🙂
Wow now this tip I likey! I just played around with it too and I can SEE things a bit bigger! Thanks!! 🙂 :good:
The problem with the ctrl-wheel font change thing is you don't know what the default was before you start messing with it.
Ctrl-0 [zero] resets it back to "normal".
Home,End, Page Up and Page Down-Jennifer
I highly recommend Snagit also. I've used it for years putting together "how-to's". It takes a very small amount of recourses and does what it does very well.
Deral
> The problem with the ctrl-wheel font change thing is you don't know what the default was before you start messing with it.
> Ctrl-0 [zero] resets it back to "normal".
True, but if your using Internet Explorer, you can also adjust it back to 100% by using the magnifying glass in the lower right corner of the browser. You can either click directly on it to enlarge, or use the pulldown arrow and select what magnification you want.
