Showing posts with label Shortcut Keys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shortcut Keys. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Word 2010 keyboard shortcut to paste text only without formatting

When you paste using the right-click, you can select paste text only (which allows you to paste text using the formatting of the document that you are pasting into). Could there be a keyboard shortcut for this? Apparently yes, but it's not a simple keyboard shortcut, and there wasn't even an option before Word 2010.

The sequence is to use Ctrl-V to paste, which will paste using the undesired formatting of the text that you copied from. Then Word puts up that annoying tiny icon that blocks the text that you just pasted. Normally you would just hit ESC to make that thing go away so that you could work. At this point, push the Ctrl key and then let up on it, then press "t". The formatting of what wss just pasted reverts to the local formatting. Then click ESC.

Here's a link that explains this:

http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/word-2010-keyboard-shortcut-to-paste-unformatted-text/

Sunday, April 8, 2012

VI keymapping

Generally, all I tend to use this for is adding or removing comment characters to/from large blocks of code. The most recent example sequence for setting up the map is:

:map ~ 0i%j

Here is a link to the subject stuffed with extraneous info that I didn't need to remind me of how to do this:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Mapping_keys_in_Vim_-_Tutorial_(Part_1)

Friday, February 20, 2009

Useful Windows Shortcut Key combinations

The following Windows Shortcut Key combinations are particularly useful for continuing to use a system that has begun to crash, or has had certain functions disabled by a virus, or just doesn't have the taskbar set up nicely:

Windows-D: Iconify all windows Pretty Darn Quick, in other words get the desktop
Alt-Tab: Shift between running (or dying) applications
Ctrl-Esc: Gets the start menu. For instance if the mouse is dead, you can get this and navigate using the keyboard and arrow keys.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc: Gets the task monitor even if it's not possible to get it by other means