Keyboard shortcuts are combinations and oft-struck keys that help you work faster, or do more with less typing.

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How to copy a forumla in excel using only the keyboard?

I run into this situation a lot. I have a column of data (A) and I created a formula in B1 that I wish to copy from B2 to B5. This is just a tiny example, because usually I'm dealing with thousands ...
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Shortcut/program to list the names of open windows on Windows 7+?

I'm looking for a program for Windows that does something similar to the tabs outliner extension for chrome. I prefer reading the titles of the open windows to a visual representation of them such as ...
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Xmonad - bind key to chain of commands

I'm using the EZConfig module for Xmonad. I would like to bind ModMask s to first move my current focused window to my other screen, then move my focus to my other screen. Using the CycleWS module ...
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Powerpoint 2010 - Keyboard shortcut to enable text wrapping

I'm working quite a bit in Powerpoint 2010 and I very much need a shortcut-key to activate text wrapping for a chosen shape. Is there a keyboard shortcut-key?
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Windows/OS X: Is it possible to switch to a window in a particular direction?

I'm looking for the functionality that you can find on window managers like awesome, screen, and tmux where you can specify the window you want to switch to with a directional key. When using ...
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Word 2010 Keyboard Shortcut to Move Focus to Document

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938 says press F6 to : Move the focus to select the following areas of the window: Active tab of the Ribbon Any open task panes Status bar at the bottom of the ...
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Disabling Function Keys in Windows 8 with Autohotkey

I would need to use Autohotkey to disable Function keys ( F1 -F12 ) on my Lenovo ideapad u310, running a Windows 8. I need this in order to use the F1-F12 in applications such as Ableton Live. ...
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Disable all shortcut keys except 1

We have chromium running in kiosk mode. We would like to disable all the shortcut keys except one. With this one key we can quit the kiosk mode. So we are searching for a way to disable all shortcut ...
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Why Logitech keyboards' media keys don't work?

Weird behavior with Windows 8, on several computers (HP and Dell laptops, and a tower pc) with different Logitech keyboards (K800, G15, G510): right after Windows installation, everything works fine. ...
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Changing macbook air hotkeys to default operation

I have a macbook air which I use for web development. I have recently shifted to a mac and have been facing problems with the keyboard layout. I want to enable the default behaviour of the function ...
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Which is the Num key on the keyboard?

Text editors such as EditPlus and Notepad++ have keyboard shortcuts like: Ctrl+Num + Ctrl+Num - Alt+Shift+Num + Alt+Shift+Num - Where's the Num key on the standard QWERTY English keyboard? I use ...
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Win XP/7/8: Can I bind a icon/shortcut to a keyboard combination?

I want to bind an icon/shortcut to a keyboard binding/combo. Reason being, Win+M minimizes my active monitor (running 'Actual Multiple Monitors'). 'Show Desktop' shortcut minimizes all monitors. I ...
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Switch between full-screen Google Chrome Developer Tools and main window on Mac

I am using Google Chrome on a 13" Mac laptop for some HTML & script debugging. Due to the size of the screen, I am running Chrome and Developer Tools, both in separate windows, at full-screen ...
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Allowing a shortcut on the user's desktop of a remote Citrix published app session to be triggered by a keyboard shortcut

I'm wearing my developer's hat at the moment, but this is more of a systems admin question where I'm trying to work with a client of ours to solve a problem. (Some names and numbers changed - idea / ...
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How can I set emacs keybinding to higher priority than the system?

I'm running Emacs 24 on Arch Linux machine. I want to set the system keyboard layout key binding to be the same as Emacs's (ctrl+\). While there is no problem to do so. When the layout is switched to ...
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How to add a bookmark to a certain folder with the keyboard only in Firefox?

I'm a keyboard freak and in general don't want to touch the mouse if at all possible. Question So the question is: Is there a way to add a bookmark to a certain folder just by using the keyboard? ...
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Dell Vostro 3550 special keys do not repeat when held down

With some amount of fiddling, including the use of all three of SharpKeys, nircmd, and a bat-to-exe converter, I have convinced two of the three special keys up and to the right of the main keyboard ...
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How do I type the infinity character in a web browser? [duplicate]

I can use Charmap utility in Windows to find, copy, and paste the character in any application, including web browsers. But what is the Alt key combination to type in the infinity character? ...
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Is there a way to manually disable the key shortcuts for Chrome's developer tools shortcuts?

Chrome thought it would be a really creative idea to have two different ways to tab between Developer tool panels. The traditional way, which is [ + a number. And in the latest release, decided to ...
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Firefox with Vimperator: how to toggle Find bar?

I'm using Firefox with Vimperator Vim emulator plugin, but instead of using its / key for searching, I prefer to use regular built-it Find bar, invoked by Ctrl-F. The problem is, if Vimperator is ...
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How to customize default tab in Eclipse?

I search by files often in Eclipse. Is it possible for the "File Search" tab to be opened by default when I press Ctrl+H?
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How can I assign a keyboard shortcut to fullscreen VMWare Fusion?

This has been driving me crazy for awhile. I like to keep most apps pinned to specific, separate virtual desktops (or whatever Apple calls them... "Spaces?"). Using the Keyboard control panel, under ...
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How do I key-bind parenthesis in Sublime Text 2 on a Norwegian keyboard?

I'm trying to do make parenthesis ( the main key to indent and unindent text. I do it because the regular bracket [ key doesn't work with my Norwegian keyboard. Here's the default key-binding for ...
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Why are some apps showing their keyboard shortcuts in another language?

I'm using Windows 7 at work (not by choice) and while I have the OS and keyboard language set to English, it seems like some apps still display keyboard shortcuts in German (e.g., Strg+Umschalt+J). ...
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What could make personalized keyboard shortcuts stop working

A colleague has asked me to develop a program which he could launch thanks to a keyboard shortcut, do something quick and then close automatically (for instance: put a string of characters in the ...
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add “hotkey support” to website (please give an example)

Recently, my company has an "upgrade" for moving from an old application to Web Application. Then I have to say "goodbye" to all my hotkey combination. Before, I don't need to use the mouse, now I ...
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How do I disable certain keys using a key in AutoHotkey?

I want the "End" key to block/lock certain keys like a,s,d,i,j,k,l. And when I click "End" again to unblock the same keys (a,s,d,i,j,k,l). How can I do this in Autohotkey? Can someone please tell me ...
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How do I open a reminder from Outlook popup via keyboard?

In all previous versions of Outlook, when a reminder popped up, you could open the reminder by hitting Alt+O on the keyboard. However, that keystroke is no longer functional in the popup, and I have ...
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How to switch all open applications between monitors?

When I locked my Windows 7 computer to clean the keyboard, I probably activated some keyboard shortcut by accident. When I logged back in, all open applications had switched monitors (all applications ...
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Search forward in command line history

With Ctrl + R you can search in previous commands. If you hit Ctrl + R again, it will displays older previous commands. The problem it that this search is "one way", it always displays older results ...
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Keyboard shortcut for Service in OS X doesn't work

I just wrote a script through Automator to make a keyboard shortcut under the title "New Finder Window Home": on run {input, parameters} tell application "Finder" activate make ...
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bash home/end/delete key inserting tilde, or if preceded by escape key, [1~ [3~

bash home/end/delete key inserting tilde, or if preceded by escape key, [1~ say I type echo hellp, move cursor to hel|lp and type delete, and bam, i got ~tilde say I type echo hellp, move cursor to ...
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How to disable CTRL-C during init process?

I have set up a kiosk system with Linux Debian Wheezy. After booting a user gets logged in automatically, executing startx through /etc/inittab. Problem is that people could shutdown the machine or ...
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Disable a Win7 default keyboard shortcut [duplicate]

In WinXP I used to map Winkey+T to open Notepad, I use an app named Winkey for that. Winkey still works in Win7, but that shortcut is being used to browse Taskbar, and Winkey can't use it. Is it ...
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In Mac Os X Mountain Lion how to switch keyboard layout using a shortcut so it's immediate?

I have a problem in that changing keyboard layout on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is not immediate: I change the keyboard (by Shift+CMD+Space, that's what I have) then I continue typing but the keyboard has ...
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Make Firefox Ctrl+P to open Print Preview

Is there an add-on that will allow me to swap Ctrl+P to trigger Print Preview instead of just plain Print?
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F6 toggles brightness level in xcode instead of stepping

I'm using xcode on a macbook. I want to debug my code. When I press F6 to step over, it increases brightness in combinaison with F5 which decreases it. I have to press FN+F6 to properly step. How can ...
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In Vim what command will put the cursor at the last character in a file, not the last line?

I realize that G will move the cursor to the last line in file, but is there a command that will move to the last character? I know I can type G$ to do this, but I thought there might be a single ...
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Can't assign a keyboard shortcut to a certain bash commands using xfce-keyboard-settings in Linux Mint

Can't assign a keyboard shortcut to certain bash commands using xfce-keyboard-settings in Linux Mint I'm using Linux Mint 14 Nadia I use xfce-keyboard-settings to assign keyboard shortcuts to ...
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Need a program for using shortcut keys to switch between specific programs

Open programs: Chrome Dreamweaver Photoshop Requirements: Ctrl+C or Alt+C - Focus Chrome window Ctrl+D or Alt+D - Focus Dreamweaver window Ctrl+P or Alt+P - Focus Photoshop window I need a ...
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Good “hidden” shortcuts for osx [closed]

Every once in a while I find a shortcut (usually by accident) that radically changes my mac experience. What are some that you've discovered that I might be missing? Some game changers for me: cmd-`: ...
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Can I add Windows 7+ Windows-key shortcuts to Windows XP?

One of the computers I routinely work on runs XP and I commonly find myself trying to use shortcuts like Win + ↑/→/←, Win + 1...9, and nothing happens. Is there a relatively ...
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Cannot run internet search scripts from Xfce keyboard shortcuts

I have created different scripts that I successfully used under Lubuntu/Lxde, including some made to be run by keyboard shortcut that would start firefox and search selected text on the internet. For ...
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How to expand dropdowns in IE?

In most Windows applications, you can use F4 to expand a currently focused dropdown. How do I do that in IE? F4 focuses on the address bar.
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Can I change default WIN-KEY (up/down/left/right) window dock behavior/sizes?

In Windows 7 I can hold the WINDOWS key and press a directional key (left, right, up, down) and the current active window will dock to left half of the screen, right half of the screen, maximized and ...
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Shortcut Keys Issue

I created some custom keyboard shortcut keys for some of the file shortcuts, But after I deleted above mentioned file shortcuts, I cannot assign the keyboard shortcut keys associated with old ones to ...
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How to use keyboard to go back to the Google Search box

As I need to constantly search with Google engine, and it annoys me really when every time I have to use the mouse to click in the search box to key in the next search key words. Is there an easier ...
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How can I prevent Windows 7 from reacting to pressing the “Search” button on a Microsoft Natural keyboard?

How can I prevent Windows from reacting to pressing the "Search" button, so only my NaturalPoint software reacts to this button press? For years I've always mapped the "Search" button on Microsoft's ...
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How do I view Windows 8 calculator shortcut keys?

Basically the subject says it all. Viewing help, doesn't help (ironically) since it shows just some Calculator: Frequently asked questions.
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Is it possible to set keyboard shortcuts on a webpage?

Not system or application shortcuts, but keyboard shortcuts used specifically on a certain webpage. Gmail shortcuts for example. Example: Press Alt+f while on Facebook it will change the feed from ...

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