On 12/3/2014 6:44 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'd just hit Ctrl P to bring up the default printer menu.

> 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.
>
NASA isn't involved when it comes to simple alternate keystrokes. The
Control and Alt keys are there for a reason. Ctrl C = Copy. Ctrl V =
paste. Ctrl S = Save. Alt E for Edit. Alt F for File. Alt FO for
File Open. There are similar shortcuts for other operating systems. I
guess I learned before we were so mouse-dependent.

Jill