Sara Writes …

There is no Ctrl+F in books! You know you’ve thought about it at some point it time… "where’s the Ctrl+F to search for something in the book you are reading."  Sorry, there’s no Ctrl+F in books.

And when I first read it – being the geek that I am, I thought she was talking about Book online. So I open SQL Books online, and sure enough CTRL+F worked like it should. I actually emailed her saying "I don’t get it".

She wrote back …

Sorry, it was a bad joke. There’s no Ctrl+F available in actual physical books.

So now she probable thinks I’m an weirdo 🙂 Pssh, doesn’t know what a silly book is. 

Yeah, ya, we all know [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], Undo, Undo, Undo.

• Oops too far..

Redo, Redo, Redo.

There is a better way to multiple undo / redo. This video shows you how.

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Swapping anchor points. This one left me wondering for a few minutes, but afer I figured it out, it was very nice. Many times I’ve selected the wrong text by a line or character or two. Only to have to reselect the entire selection.

This video trick shows you how to expand your selction on the top of bottom – no matter which direction you selected up or down. It is one of my favorites so far.

[CTRL]+[K] + [CTRL]+A

Do you recognize this sequence?

Home.

Shift.

Up or Down.

[CTRL]+[X] or [Delete]

There are many better ways to cut or delete your current line of code/markeup/css/xaml/whatever. This Video Trick shows you how.

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Wanna get to the top of your screen, but you know PgUp is too far? How about the bottom? This is a cool trick that I find myself using all the time. It saves 100’s of ups and downs a day, because you can always get to the place you’re interested in faster than up,up,up,up,up,up,up,up.

BONUS Content.

At the end of this video, we talk about debugging your keyboard so if some of your keystrokes don’t work as described, you can use Visual Studio to find out why!

[CTRL]+[PgUp] = Move to top of page, without scrolling

[CTRL]+[PgDn] = Move to bottom of page, without scrolling

[CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[PgUp] = Move and Select to top of page, without scrolling

[CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[PgDn] = Move and Select to bottom of page, without scrolling

[CTRL]+[Up Arrow] = Leave cursor in current position, but scroll up

[CTRL]+[Down Arrow] = Leave cursor in current position, but scroll down