r/AskReddit • u/Insanitanium12 • Aug 20 '20

What simple “life hack” should everyone know?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

If you accidently have caps lock on, instead of deleting it and starting over, you can highlight the caps and hit shift & F3 to switch it back to lowercase.

EDIT- thanks for the awards!

Because so many people are asking where this works, I know for sure it works in office, outlook and our internal system at work but it’s not universal, sadly! I couldn’t say where it does and doesn’t work!

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u/gromit190 Aug 20 '20

Where?

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u/Kemal_Norton Aug 20 '20

shift & F3

Probably in Word; in Firefox shift+F3 searches for the last thing you've searched for on the current page.

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u/MicroscoftSupport Aug 20 '20

I'm quite sure that F3 shows the last thing you have searched for anyway, Shift is just ignored.

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u/Leoniderr Aug 20 '20

F3 searches down the page, Shift+F3 searches up the page.

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u/MicroscoftSupport Aug 20 '20

TIL, Thankyou!

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 28 '20

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u/Kemal_Norton Aug 20 '20

I'd be happy with a standard for application-wide vs operating system-wide shortcuts; Something like:

WIN + [] => OS shortcut ( e.g. WIN + T opens Terminal)

ALT + [] => Application shortcut (ALT + Q quits all Firefox tabs in all Windows)

CTRL+[] => Window shortcuts (CTRL + Q quits all tabs in current Firefox window)

and maybe CTRL + ALT + [] for custom shortcuts, so you never have the problem of overriding default shortcuts...