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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature  I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet 
I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination.
Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
modified 8-Feb-22 2:18am.
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I found a VS shortcut (don't know what it was) that lost half the VS Panes and scrambled the rest. I had to use the Window -> Reset Window Layout to get anything usable. Now, when I try to move / view panes, VS just crashes. I hope I never find that shortcut again.
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I wish there was an option to lock down the panes in VS so that they cannot accidentally be dragged from their position. I tend to be a mouse user more than shortcuts, and this tends to happen often enough to be annoying...
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It happens to me as well. It would be nice to lock them in place. Searching for an answer I see that it's been requested before, years ago. It seems like the best alternative is to save the current layout and then load that saved layout if you really mess it up.
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Visual Studio 2008 has a bug that undocks all of your windows. To recover you must carefully start up a second instance of VS2008, exit the broken one, and then exit the 2nd. This forces the original window layout to get saved over the borked one.
And yes, my choice of present tense for the preceding paragraph was not an accident  ...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nice to see someone else still using VS2008.
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Never stumbled across any cool/handy ones, only ones that I wish I hadn't found. One of the most annoying, because it can easily occur accidentally, is hitting ALT in an Excel spreadsheet.
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There's also the joy of Scroll Lock in Excel.
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You just ruined my day by reminding me! 
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THANK YOU!!!
I've been looking for a Visual Studio equivalent to Visual Studio Code's Ctrl+P (Goto File) forever and you've shown it to me...
Now I just need to remap it to Ctrl+P (I mean, who prints out their code?) and I'll be 💯happy.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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no, But my cat seems to find them all the time.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Has anyone ever tried to invent a cat-shield for a laptop keyboard? And maybe an optional project-screen-onto-cat feature that would help when he's blocking that?
Dean Kamen, Elon Musk, Tony Stark - did they think of anything so handy?
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I've got a really effective cat shield. Two pit pulls outside and a Shih-Tzu inside. Never have problems with cats on my keyboard, or anywhere else for that matter. 
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I accidentally discovered that F11 in Chrome switches it to full screen. And only F11 will switch it back out of full screen. ESC doesn't do it!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 8-Feb-22 11:06am.
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In most Windows browsers Edge shows a notification on how to switch back, but I think I've been stuck in full screen with Firefox before.
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Grandma finds this one all the time. Half my phone calls with her include the phrase "F11".
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Isn't that a standard key for full screen? Firefox, Vivaldi, VLC, Featherpad, MPC-HC and many others use it.
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Yes it is. But she only uses Chrome, so there you go.
Being 91 means you already have a lot to remember already.
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Heh, I understand. My wifey has problems remembering ctrl-c, ctrl-v.
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For Visual Studio 2017/2019, there's this handy extension[^] which shows you the shortcut assigned to any commands you don't invoke from a shortcut.
(The VS2022 version is on the todo list[^].)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Cool, looks nice. I'll need to install that one once VS2022 support is done.
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Jacquers wrote: recall activating a f.lux
I originally read this as "flux capacitor" and I was like, "Holy crap" how do I do that!.
Having a PC that can actually time travel would be amazing, both good and bad.
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Mine does, but only forward and only one second at a time :P
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I've found by installing Win10, I can go back in time. Based on boot time and usability, I'm back to about 2005 now. I'm expecting to go a bit further back once I "upgrade" to Win11. 
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