Numlock - great when you have to type numbers!

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This may be the most important thread I have ever read.
I was kinda familiar with certain keyboard commands from using a lawyer billing program that was completely reliant on keyboard (because the lawyer was too cheap to upgrade, and was the boss, so I had to do it).
F2, F12 are not unknown to me...i can't remember the name of the software, but maybe, Timeslips? i ended up getting offered a position with the wandering Timeslips people (I believe that was the company), because I kept on finding ways to change the actual timeslips/billing to meet our needs, which didn't work well for the actual program. Or the lawyer.
because i was basically embezzling - but not really! - I was just changing certain things to get the numbers I needed for my job! Plus, i thought i was really NOT doing anything but working with a very simple program, and trying to get the bills out on time. I only manipulated a few things to get my math to work out. The fact that the bills came out wrong was a sad coda to my manipulation of the program.
But the Timeslips folks were impressed with my backdoor hijinks! They basically said that anyone who could manipulate the program as well as I had done SHOULD be working for them.
That was also 1996. I have been confused more recently.
But this thread explains so much that was a mystery!
The reproductive health clinic I work at is DOS - all keyboard, all the time.
i am better with the blue screen with the yellow letters than i am in this more modern format!
I F10 and F12 all of the time. i am proud to use Esc. However, I have learned so much today, from this thread.
Thank you.

Also, what is the Windows equiv. of the Mac's "Enter" key? I use it for renaming files all the time.

It's great when you can learn stuff like this on ILX. Like, I'm having a compulsory computer course at the uni (one I should've done years ago), and one thing we have to do there is to create your own homepage in HTML, and when I was learning to do that I realized I already knew some of the commands (like "img src" and "a href=") because I've learned to use them here.

f2 renames stuff xpost

yeah but what if you want to rename it to something more informative than xpost?

Wow, ILE is populated by many copies of my mom.

Why are you so rude to us then, young man?

what the fuck, i didn't even realize this worked on mac. hah! i just tried on this laptop and it works! christ...

don't press the Delete and Internet buttons at the same time

or Break and Enter, you go to jail for that.

dying

Oh, it is done already. Since I don't see much point in learning HTML, I only made it to fit their minimum requirements.

noobs.

But seriously, I think I use pretty much all of these regularly except for scroll lock and that button that simulates a right click. There's an entire set of commands that the Windows key can be used in conjunction with that are really useful:
(using wk for Windows key)
wk+r: Run dialog
wk+e: New windows explorer window
wk+pause: System Properties

and those are just a few of the amazing things you can do with a modern keyboard. Next week, I'll explore the mythical "apple" key on Macs.

This started as a parody of the banalness of recent threads and became a thing of instructive beauty. wk+e has made this all worth it. Thank you, sandbox.