Tech Table Tuesday, December 3, 2013
December 3, 2013
Justin: Welcome to MPA’s Tech Table. I’m Justin.
Diana: And I’m Diana.
Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up a heaping spoonful of all things tech.
Diana: We promise it’ll be easy to digest.
Justin: It’s Tuesday on Tech Table, and today we’re talking about some, this is interesting to me, a Windows program key combination shortcuts.
Diana: Shortcuts, a lot of people don’t know about shortcuts but I love them, and then I don’t even know half of these.
Justin: These are keyboard shortcuts. Now, I, it’s just not my personality to use shortcuts. I don’t know why.
Diana: Really? You want to take a long, drawn-out process?
Justin: I guess, but I’ve learned a lot of keyboard shortcuts in the last year and I use them a lot now. And I get really confused when I’m using another program that doesn’t allow shortcuts because there are some programs that you can’t use the same shortcuts.
Diana: True. Right, and the ones we’re going to share today, most of these are Windows-specific, but a lot of them also work on Mac. So, yeah, they’re fun.
Justin: Yeah, exactly. So, the common one that a lot of people use would be control and then C.
Diana: Yeah, for copy.
Justin: Right.
Diana: When you want to copy some material, typically text, that you’re wanting to copy from one place to another and it could be one document to another, one field to another. Yeah, and it’s really, really helpful. So, control plus C.
Justin: Right, and then, control X.
Diana: This is when you want something a little more permanent. You don’t want to copy it. You want to take it out of somewhere. So, you cut, that’s a cut. I think of it like scissors.
Justin: I always wondered why X got such a bad rap.
Diana: The letter X?
Justin: Well, you know, it’s used for cut, and like, toxic. It gets a bad rap.
Diana: X-rays are good.
Justin: Not really because if you get too many of them, they give you cancer or something. I don’t know.
Diana: Oh, my.
Justin: I mean, why does X get such a bad rap? I don’t know.
Diana: I don’t know. In this case, you’re just cutting it from one place because you want to paste it into another. So, how do you paste?
Justin: Right, which is control V.
Diana: V, I don’t know why V.
Justin: I don’t know either.
Diana: So, let’s recap those so far. Control C is copy, control X is cut, and control V…
Justin: Is paste.
Diana: That’s right.
Justin: And then, if something goes awry, control Z is undo.
Diana: And I just learned this one recently, control Z. I heard someone talking about it and I’m like, oh, I have to remember that because it did actually come in handy shortly. So, yeah, if you do something and then you think, oh, that’s not what I meant to do at all, really quick, you can just do control Z and it will undo your last action.
Justin: Does that apply to life, too? Can you control Z something? I’m just kidding.
Diana: That’d be nice.
Justin: I’m in a good mood today, apparently.
Diana: Yeah. So, how about if you’ve got some text and you want to make it bold?
Justin: I suppose control B.
Diana: That’s right. And how about if you want to underline it?
Justin: Control U. Oh, that’s an interesting play on words.
Diana: So, let’s recap. We’ve got control B for bold, and then control U for underline.
Justin: Right.
Diana: And you can still do more for text, right?
Justin: Right, yeah, control I for…oh, that’s creepy, too. I don’t like this control U, control I. I’m sorry. I’m thinking way too much into these. This is why I can’t use shortcuts, apparently.
Diana: You are really reading into these. So, what’s control I then?
Justin: Italic.
Diana: Italics, so if you want to make something kind of slanted and fancy-looking.
Justin: Right. And then there’s shift plus delete, which deletes an item permanently.
Diana: So, be careful with that one.
Justin: Right, and then control plus escape, which opens the start menu, and that’s in Windows.
Diana: Oh, that’s handy.
Justin: So, there are some nifty keyboard shortcuts.
Diana: Yeah, and if you want a recap of that, you could always just email us: questions@askmpa.com. We’ll send them right off to you.
Justin: That’s right. Until next time.
Diana: Take care.
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Justin: And thanks for listening.
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