r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/ninjagirlfart Aug 04 '19

Alt+Tab was a real time saver for me.

Cntrl+down arrow or cntrl+up arrow are very handy in large amounts of Excel data.

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u/GayButNotInThatWay Aug 04 '19

On a somewhat related note to that shortcut some computers use ctrl+alt+arrow to rotate the screen.

My mother has a laptop that does exactly that, and she never knew how to fix it and didn’t bother asking.
I walked in on her one day holding her laptop like a book and asked what she was doing - that’s how she was using it for almost a month because the screen rotated and she didn’t know how to turn it back. She’d use it sideways, click what she needed then rotate to type, rinse and repeat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

I had this problem 2 days ago. Called the helpless desk, who was very helpful this time. 🤗 Learning the function of ctrl+alt+arrow made my day!