Janet Wilder wrote:
>
> On 12/3/2014 5:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2014-12-03 6:36 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> >> On 12/2/2014 6:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>> Most of what I know about computers I picked up on my own. I find them
> >>> pretty much self teaching. My wife sometimes drives me craze with her
> >>> inability to deal with the computer. For instance... yesterday she had
> >>> a document that she could not figure out how to print. I told her to
> >>> try clicking on things.
> >>
> >> (snip)
> >>
> >> Clicking on things all willy nilly is also a good way to screw things up.
> >>
> >> I wish everyone knew the old standard keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+P works
> >> pretty damn well in most applications.
> >>
> >
> > Okay.... but if you were looking at a document in an application you had
> > been using for over a year, and you wanted to print something you were
> > reading on the monitor, what would you do?
> >
> > Me? I would try left and right mouse clicking. As it turned out....
> > right click brought up a menu that included the print option. NASA was
> > not involved.
> >
>
> I would use Control P. I also use Firefox as my browser and there is a
> thing with three lines in the upper right-hand corner that, if you click
> on it, offers many tasks including printing.
>
> --
> From somewhere very deep in the heart of Texas

Control P may have been used as a print shortcut in your beloved
Wordperfect, but it has very different long standing definitions in the
computing world, so does M$'s control C.