Post a little known feature in a commonly used piece of software

[Pastore]

My contribution...

Using Gaim, you can click and drag a tab away from the chat window to create a new window with that chat instance in it.

 

[Pastore]

Bump and tits.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

I was surprised to find out not alot of my friends knew this, middle clicking a link in FF will open it in a new tab

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Pastore
tits.

You gotta put that in the title to get attention

 

[shortylickens]

I think if you hold down left shift while creating a new deck in Solitare, it comes up with the cards in order.

But I may just be smoking crack too.

 

[Aves]

Alt-D will take you to the Address Bar in IE.
Ctrl-Shift-A will bring up the Trillian (2.x) Contact List
Alt-` will hide Maxthon

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Aves
Alt-D will take you to the Address Bar in IE.
Ctrl-Shift-A will bring up the Trillian (2.x) Contact List

in firefox too.

 

[AnyMal]

Excel 97 has a flight sim built in

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Excel 97 has a flight sim built in

?

 

[Mermaidman]

CTRL+left click will let you select individual table cells in Word. (I didn't know this until last month!)

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Pastore
My contribution...

Using Gaim, you can click and drag a tab away from the chat window to create a new window with that chat instance in it.

thats a known feature imo... i do it accidentally all the time

Here's a couple:

windows
win + R ... run command
win + L ... lock machine
alt + printscreen ... screenshot of the active window

osx
apple + w ... closes the window (just like clicking on the red button)

eclipse
ctrl + shift + f > formats the code

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
CTRL+left click will let you select individual table cells in Word. (I didn't know this until last month!)

Control+Click will let you select individual anythings in most windows.
Files in Explorer, cells/lines in most office documents.
Its pretty cool.

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
CTRL+left click will let you select individual table cells in Word. (I didn't know this until last month!)

Control+Click will let you select individual anythings in most windows.
Files in Explorer, cells/lines in most office documents.
Its pretty cool.

I knew those, but for some reason, I didn't think to try it in a Word table!

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
CTRL+left click will let you select individual table cells in Word. (I didn't know this until last month!)

Ctrl + Left click lets you selectively select cells (Word and Excel), Files, Folders (in Explorer).

Ctrl + Left click is amazingly useful.

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Excel 97 has a flight sim built in

?

Text

 

[david46675]

Originally posted by: Aves
Ctrl-Shift-A will bring up the Trillian (2.x) Contact List

well thats nifty

 

[kranky]

You can double-click the Format Painter icon in Word to make it "sticky".

 

[imported_Leviathan]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Excel 97 has a flight sim built in

Easter Egg?...or sarcasm?

 

[Tu13erhead]

Originally posted by: Leviathan

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Excel 97 has a flight sim built in

Easter Egg?...or sarcasm?

It's true. Excel 2000 has a Spy Hunter clone built in.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: sheik124
I was surprised to find out not alot of my friends knew this, middle clicking a link in FF will open it in a new tab

it works with the wheel click too apparently
win-key+m goes to desktop