|
I bet you have alot of stories. Sounds rough, glad you made it out of all that.
|
|
|
|
|
LMFTFY
You love the sound of vinyl? Pay $1k to make it sound like a cd instead!
The "lower quality" sound is the point of vinyl.
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Paste as plain text"
How have I been a Windows (and probably works in other OS's as well?) for years and years and not know that keyboard shortcut?
So useful, as I copy and paste stuff all the time. Not code! Things like a Teams message into an email, or vice versa, or quote that I'm citing in an essay, or something in Excel to an email, ... the list goes on.
Well, I guess you can teach an old dog a new trick.
|
|
|
|
|
Here's another old dog who just learned a new trick that would occasionally be useful.
|
|
|
|
|
ditto
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
|
|
|
|
|
Me too. I bet my dog is older than your dog
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
|
|
|
|
|
Ditto. And I pride myself on using shortcuts!
|
|
|
|
|
I remember when it was Shift-Insert to paste. Which still works.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
|
|
|
|
|
Hmm, just tried that in Outlook and it preserves the formatting.
|
|
|
|
|
Outlook is an Office product, so it is - of course - totally compatible with all other Office products.
Except Excel. Oh, and PowerPoint. And Word, and probably OneNote.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
I remember when CTRL-G made the PC beep, a relic from the days when teletypes ruled the world. I guess nobody told the designers of sound cards about backward compatibility.
Will Rogers never met me.
|
|
|
|
|
The "Bell" character. Back in my days of setting up DOS based POS machines, we used that code to pop the cash drawer.
|
|
|
|
|
Yep. When I last worked in Retail, we were still using it to trip the drawer latch. Computers don't beep like they used to, but most drawers have a little bell that sounds when they open. I believe the original use was to alert a teletype operator of a new incoming message. I just enjoyed using it to send to the boss' terminal to annoy him.
Will Rogers never met me.
|
|
|
|
|
You have to send it to the stdout for the beep.
I used to add that to long batch files to alert me at certain steps like:
“Insert next floppy”
|
|
|
|
|
Old dogs Unite! Me too. I'll have to try this later on this morning.
I wonder can you teach puppies too?
|
|
|
|
|
Judging by QA, "No."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
I doubt it. From my experience, 'puppies' would say "what is keyboard shortcut? I just right-click...."
But Marc, thanks for that reminder of a shortcut I always forget about. I LOVE keyboard shortcuts - I had to especially learn them when first using Excel 2.1 on a runtime version of Windows with no mouse.
-Wayne
|
|
|
|
|
Another old dog gets a new trick ... thanks!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
Hmmm...I have Wordpad open, with some text that contains bolded items. Ctrl-C to copy, open a new instance of Wordpad, Ctrl-Shift-V to paste as plain text...nope, the formatting is still there.
What are you copying from, and to?
|
|
|
|
|
It does not work in everything. Hell, Word doesn't support it and you'd think that it should!
|
|
|
|
|
I'd rather not have known instead of being made aware that I have been ignoring something so useful all these years. Ignorance is a bliss...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: This opens the Run dialog, pastes the clipboard into the edit box, then copies the text back out. Ok, that is seriously weird (like his other Ctrl+F solution) - to open something with an edit box. Good grief.
|
|
|
|
|
Middle click opens a new tab on most links in every good browser.
|
|
|
|