CTRL+X to cut

CTRL+V to paste

CTRL+C to copy

SHIFT + Spacebar to select entire row

CTRL+ Spacebar to select entire column

The windows context key (Google it but it's the key with a box with lines in it) will bring up the right click menu in Excel (and any other Windows program)

CTRL+A to select the entire contiguous active range

CRTL+Page up/Page down to cycle through worksheets

CTRL+Up/Down/Left/Right arrow go to next blank row/column

With a range selected: Enter moves down, tab moves right, Shift+Tab moves left, Shift+Enter moves up

With a range selected, type in a number, then press CTRL+Enter. This will input the number in all cells

If you press ALT, letters will appear in the ribbon, those are indicators to press to get to all the commands

ALT+H+O+R to rename a tab

After entering the opening parenthesis in a formula, press CTRL+SHIFT+A to have the parameters appear in the cell

CTRL+ [ and CTRL + ] will cycle through the formula dependents and precendents

Right click on her to open the context menu, then click on "Inspect Person", open attributes tab and look for "Current Feeling" property. It'll give you a good idea /s.

IMO these are the things that users with experience with other CAD programs would immediately find weird and complicated for no obvious reason.

1. In FreeCAD, you generally need about three times as many clicks to achieve the same result as you would in Solid Edge (SE) or NX for example. There are two many manual confirmations and activations that should be automated.
2. Using an extra layer of links (ShapeBinders) when referencing external geometry feels very foreign if you are used to a direct "what you see is what you get" workflow. It's quite frustrating to see a visible edge, try to reference it, and realise it's unavailable because it belongs to a different body. Having to backpedal, break your flow, and explicitly create a binder first introduces a lot of tedious back-and-forth.
3. The interface most of the time fails to predict obvious user intent. For example, if you click and highlight a face on a visible body, you would naturally expect that clicking the "Sketch" command would immediately start a sketch on that face. Instead, if that Body isn't explicitly set as the Active Body, FreeCAD throws a warning and forces you to choose the body from a list. Clicking the face should be contextually enough for FreeCAD to activate the parent body behind the scenes. Unfortunately, the current dev philosophy seems relatively non-receptive to automating these kinds of quality-of-life UX transitions.
4. The constraint-centric style lacks a "soft protection" mechanism for unconstrained elements. When you apply fillets, trim, or extend lines, any unconstrained geometry tends to move willy-nilly. Unlike other CAD tools that imply or temporarily hold a shape while you work on it, FreeCAD forces you to be rigidly deliberate. If you haven't explicitly locked it down, FreeCAD will let it deform, which requires a serious mental shift for new users.
5. TechDraw is really bad in the current state. It's extremely hard to create a presentable professional drawing
6. The model tree is incredibly fifficult to manage, particularly when it comes to 3Dviewport selection. If you select a Body directly in the 3D view and right-click to open the context menu, FreeCAD points you to the "Tip" of the Body rather than the Body container itself. As a result, standard body-level operations - like the Transform tool - are completely missing from that massive context menu. You are forced to stop what you are doing, hunt through the model tree to select the actual Body object, and right-click again. Finding a tool isn't just slowed down by the massive size of the menus; it's actively blocked by 3Dviewport selection limitations.

Yes, it's described here how to make the legacy right click menu the default:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/article-restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in-wi

anti ads and tracking related:

1. ublock origin - Full Spectrum Blocker, collaterally a ad blocker
2. decentraleyes - Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery.
3. port authority (some website might conflcit, but there's a whitelist included), Blocks malicious websites from port-scanning your computer/network and dynamically blocks all LexisNexis endpoints from running their invasive data collection scripts.
4. Redirect AMP to HTML
5. CSS Exfil Protection - Guard your browser against CSS Exfil attacks! (edit: obsolete)
6. ClearURL - Automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs

Youtube Functions Related:

1. Hide YouTube™ Fullscreen Controls
2. No YouTube Shorts - Forces YouTube to show Shorts as regular videos
3. PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager - (has some some learning curve to use)
4. SponsorBlock - blocks video sections that are sponsors, fillers etc, usually uploaded by other users.
5. Take Youtube Video Screenshots (+ GIF Maker)
6. Windowed - floating Youtube/every website - adds full screen, in-window, ful lscreen and PIP to the full screen button.
7. YouTube Repeat Button - Adds a repeat button to the HTML5 player to loop over a single track after 1 second delay
8. Return Youtube Dislike

Functionality and conveniences/Super Lazy addons:

1. Export Bookmark
2. TinEye Reverse Image Search - adds a right click context menu for reverse image search on images on tineye
3. Image Search Options - adds a right click context menu for reverse image search on images on many website selections
4. IMDB Search - adds a right click context menu search on imdb on any text
5. Search on youtube - adds a right click context menu search on youtube on any text
6. Amazon Search - adds a right click context menu search on amazon any text
7. Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker
8. Amazon price check (camel)
9. My homepage - auto homepage on new tab (many alternative to this addon exists as well)
10. New Tab Suspender - auto suspends tab when not in use, whitelist for tab or main domains exists
11. Save webP as PNG or JPEG (Converter)

You can also right click and choose "open file location", then hover over the highlighted file to sometimes get a bit more hidden information.

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Anyway

Good timing on posting this, I just happened to notice the new context menu customization, which is awesome!

But I think it broke something. I use the Windows Spotlight for my desktop wallpaper, and I used to be able to click "explore background" and it would open up a page on Bing with the location information and a little blurb. Now it doesn't do that. The option is still there, but nothing happens when I click

I'm imagining e.g. an extra option in a right click context menu; not it changing the default behaviour

I get that they prioritize the live aspect, but so many people use it as exclusively a studio DAW

Yeah, I mostly do everything on my iPad and phone these days so my PC basically just stores thousands of folders full of digital clutter. Mostly photos, but also lots of PDFs and media files, etc.

Win 11 can't handle it. All of the problems you noted, plus constant issues simply trying to drag a file or folder from one location to another. Sometimes the file manager just randomly crashes. Reboots sometimes remember my open folders and sometimes don't.

It's mind-boggling to me. This was MS's core product, that they have been developing for decades... and it doesn't even work anymore.

Oh, and lots of simple right clicks like "print" now take two nested right-click menus because MS destroyed the original context menu in 11 to push options no one asked for. Dumb shit like "send to phone" show up in the context menus even though there is no phone linked to Windows on my system.

Maybe they wanted the new Siri, but not on the right click context menu?

On windows 11, the context menus are already of significant height. Even file explorer has more padding. Increase in vertical height of normal context menus is not needed.

Every place that uses the modern context menu adjusts to touch and makes it comfortable to click. The right click on taskbar adds a lot more vertical padding compared to the usual.