Friday, June 16, 2006

4 Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts

Or combination key strokes :

1. ALT + F4 was taught to me by our summer co-op student from Carnegie Melon. This shuts down a browser window (or any other window) faster than you can say "supervisor".

2. ALT + K is a new one I just learned for finishing somebody's name from an Exchange Server in Microsoft Outlook. I love this, and went the longest without knowing it, losing the most productivity.

3. CTRL + ENTER is an old standby for web surfing in Internet Explorer. Turns "google" into "www.google.com".

4. CTRL + SPACE will cause code-completion to happen for you in Visual Studio .NET. This was another long-time-coming shortcut, but not as bad as ALT K. Can't imagine life without this one as a developer.

P.S.
Somebody should pass a law against the CAPS LOCK key.

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