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What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

You can rename files in Windows using the F2 key. This works for a lot of Microsoft products including editing a cell without overwriting it in Excel.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 29 points 4 months ago

F2 is universal, it's been there since before Microsoft. It also works on Linux and most independent software.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh man this is huge given they put rename on the extended right click now

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In Win 11 rename is literally at the top of the right click menu, it’s just a symbol now. I really like it. And yes, I did circle it.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 4 months ago

thanks. I only have it on my work laptop but I will check that out. Given they did that with cut and paste I guess I should have looked harder at the other icons.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Works in most softwares. Also F1 often opens a help menu/manual (although those are usually kinda useless IMHO lol)

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

F3 lets you edit an Excel cell without using your damned mouse on Windows. So handy, I added the shortcut to my non-Windows setup.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the topic of Excel, it's one of the few programs where the scroll lock key does something. It allows you to switch between moving the cell selection and scrolling with the arrow keys

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss real keyboards for the numberpad and the Home and End and the Pages Up and Down. Plus all the satisfying noise they made. Had no idea I needed this, too.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Look into mechanical keyboards. They aren't cheap but there have been serious improvements and you get all the real keyboard features you want. Plus clickyclicky.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I believe shift-insert and shift-del can function as copy and paste in case your ctrl button doesn't work.

This is from the top of my head, so might not be correct.

These go back to windows 3.11, I believe. Ran into them when my ctrl button once didn't work via remote control, IIRC.