A finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user.
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Keyboard shortcut to access the first link in a Google search page?
What is the keyboard shortcut to access the first result in a Google search page?
Any "hacks" would be fine, as long as it does not require the mouse.
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Keyboard shortcut to change Right-to-left status in Gmail
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or a Greasemonkey script that adds this keyboard shortcut), to make a certain paragraph right-to-left, or left-to-right in gmail?
This question in the official gmail ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut for 'Mark as read' in GMail?
In the new Yahoo! mail I can select multiple checkboxes against my email subjects and press k to perform the action Mark as read.
Is there a similar alternative in GMail?
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Any plugin to control GMail message editor with keyboard?
I want to use GMail's various rich-text capabilities with the keyboard. For example, I want to type Ctrl + M to indent, Ctrl + Shift + M to dedent, and do all the other actions (like adding a link or ...
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Gmail keyboard shortcut to “select all conversations that match this search”?
You can use *a, but this only selects conversations on the current page. I'd like to select all conversations without using the mouse, IE to delete hundreds of emails from a specific sender.
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How can I bind Ctrl + L to “Create Link” in Gmail?
While composing a message in Gmail is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut that will create a new link by pressing the CTRL+L combination?
When I want to create a link in sites like Stack ...
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Disable some Gmail shortcut keys
Love Gmail shortcut keys but not all of them. Is it possible to selectively delete some keys?
I tried going to Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts and clearing some of the defaults in the Key(s) column ...
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Shortcut key to open YouTube videos in full screen mode
What keyboard shortcut will open up full screen mode while playing YouTube videos?
Viewing on a Windows 7 machine.
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1answer
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Shortcut key to delete single mail in a thread in Gmail
When I send mail to all contacts in my list ( thats a huge number), I get a lot of failure notices that fills my thread. But I don't want to delete my actual sent email and the one I forwarded which ...
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In Google Reader, is there a keyboard shortcut to swtich between show new items and show all items?
I pretty much use the keyboard exclusively in Google Reader, but I would really like a keyboard shortcut to switch between showing new items and all items.
I know about showing the shortcuts cheat ...
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Gmail keyboard shortcut to “expand all”?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to "Expand all" emails in a conversation after having navigated via j or k? Typing Enter after j or k doesn't do much.
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gmail keyboard shortcut for “Display images below”
Is there a keyboard shortcut in gmail for the "Display images below" or "always display images from" links in emails?
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I can't seem to get the shortcut key (#) for deleting to work in Gmail on OSx
I am using Chrome on OS X with a UK keyboard and for some reason I cannot delete an email using #.
Pretty much every other email shortcut I use works but not this.
To get the hash key I am pressing ...
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Do up and down arrow keys navigate Gmail messages?
It was the case until recently that I could scroll up and down either within a Gmail message or on the page containing the message by clicking there (just to make sure the cursor/focal point is there) ...
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Scroll Without Using Arrow Keys or Mouse in Gmail With Shortcuts on?
I do not want to have my hands leave the traditionally typing position to navigate gmail via shortcuts. I can do everything I need to do except scroll through really long e-mails. For that it requires ...
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Gmail keyboard shortcut for bulleted/numbered lists
When I'm composing a message, I want to start a bulleted or numbered list with a keyboard shortcut instead of using the mouse. How can I do this?
If there is no way to do these things, what's the ...
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1answer
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+1 a website in Google search results using the keyboard
How do I +1 a website I see in Google search using the keyboard?
I love the use of arrow keys to navigate the search results and would like to +1 the websites I like. I don't want to move away from ...
5
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1answer
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What's a keyboard shortcut for Gmail to show the unread messages with a specific label?
I want a keyboard shortcut to take me to the list of unread e-mails with a specific label.
I can type g + l then type the label name and is:^u, but I want to know if it can be done with a shorter ...
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Disable twitter's keyboard shortcut
For the simple reason sometimes I want to search the timeline using Command + F and when I try it some shortcut will be activated and I'll be moved away from the timeline after having loaded many ...
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2answers
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Make Twitter recognize the <enter> key to post tweets?
Is it possible to make the enter key submit a tweet automatically on Twitter?
If so, how?
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3answers
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Keyboard shortcut to unmark all emails in Yahoo! Mail
We can mark all emails using keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A in Yahoo! Mail. Are there any keyboard shortcut to unmark all emails?
Edit
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1answer
388 views
Feedly - keyboard shortcuts for navigating posts?
Is there a way to navigate my posts (next, previous, minimize, etc.) in Feedly via shortcuts?
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1answer
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Can I label a Gmail message from a popup window?
I let Gmail run in the background, and it gives me some nice browser notifications for every received message. Clicking these opens the message in a new popup window.
I know I can trash or archive ...
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How do I use shortcut keys in Gmail?
I want to start using shortcut keys in Gmail. Where are they documented? Can I just start using them, or do I need to activate a feature for them somehow?
There are lots of questions in this Webapps ...
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Keyboard-only usage of Google Search
How can I perform a Google search without using the mouse?
I want to be able to:
type in the search term and start the search ( possible already since I use a browser search bar );
navigate through ...
3
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1answer
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Google reader (keyboard) shortcut to star last visible item
Is there a Google reader (keyboard) shortcut to star the last visible item? I want to mark the last visible item before paging down. Then I immediately unstar it, so a shortcut to do that would be ...
3
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1answer
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Where to find are all the Prismatic (getprismatic.com) keyboard shortcuts
Found really nice automatic news agregator service http://getprismatic.com. I’m a keyboard centric user, and there are shortcuts on Prismatic website like greader’s j/k for next/previous and etc. But ...
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How can I create custom keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs?
When studying biology and mechanisms, it's very useful to take notes with arrows that illustrate a stepwise process: A --> B --> C and up/down arrows to denote increase/decrease. This is very ...
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1answer
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Does the web-based Evernote app have keyboard shortcuts?
If it does? What are they?
The most important shortcuts for me are: search & new
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1answer
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Keyboard navigation support on Twitter
Does Twitter have support for keyboard navigation?
I've managed to guess j and k for going up and down tweets, but I don't know any others. Are there keys for actions like refreshing tweets (not F5), ...
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2answers
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Gmail keyboard short for moving focus back to messages
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Gmail which fully returns focus to the message list?
The help short cut (?) shows a comma , as "Move focus to toolbar", but when I move it there, I can't get it back ...
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1answer
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Discovering accesskeys
Is there some way to discover whether a site supports @accesskeys, short of brute force hammering on the keyboard or searching in the markup? I can't remember even once seeing a web site advertising ...
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Are there advanced keyboard shortcuts for Google Calendar?
I like to do most of my stuff using the keyboard. On Gmail, this works quite nicely, but on Google Calendar, some keyboard shortcuts are missing.
For example, I'd like to browse days by using the ← ...
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3answers
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Keyboard Accessibility in Web Applications
I would put my question this way:
We all know Keyboard is fast (as compare to Mouse). VIM is a simplest example for this.
Is there any standard of creating web applications that are keyboard centric? ...
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1answer
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Shortcut to Google Images, News, More
I'd like to know if there is a shortcut to go to Google Images, Images, More... A way to navigate between this options.
Like you can go trough the results with the UP/DOWN arrows, I don´t know if ...
3
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1answer
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Keyboard shortcuts for Offline Google Mail (Gmail)?
With the Offline Google Mail app in the Chrome Web Store, is it possible to enable keyboard shortcuts similar to those available in the web version of Gmail?
For example, I can use the mouse to move ...
3
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1answer
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Enable Home and End in Gmail Compose Message window on Mac
I've installed Double Command on my Mac to make the Home and End keys do something useful (eg: behave as they do in Windows/Linux), and this is working fine across the system. The problem is that when ...
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Hotkeys for GMail's “New Compose”
Does GMail's "New Compose" support hotkeys?
With the old compose I could label mails I am writing with easily with the hotkey l. See Label outgoing emails in Gmail when composing the mail
But with ...
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2answers
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Is there another way to mark a recommended item as “Not Interested” in Google Reader?
Sometimes posts are really long (in screen space, not necessarily words) to get to the bottom of, so a keyboard shortcut would be really helpful for marking the "Not Interested" box of a post. Is ...
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1answer
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Google Docs - Keyboard shortcut to correct a misspelled word?
In Google Docs, if a misspelled word is present in a document, a red underline is displayed under that word, as is typical in text-composition applications.
When the caret (insertion point) is ...
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What is the equivalent key in Google Docs Spreadsheet to Excel's F2 for editing a cell?
In Excel
When you want to edit the highlighted cell, and you don't want to move back to the previous cell when pressing the <- key, you press F2.
Pressing F2 ensures that when you're editing the ...
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Keyboard shortcuts to add images on the new new Twitter site
The new new Twitter site is awesome.
I'm not sure if they were there before but you can now access a list of keyboard short cuts by simply pressing ?
When I press N it brings up the new Tweet ...
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1answer
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Gmail's “Show trimmed content” - is there a keyboard shortcut?
So far I like the "new compose experience" with one exception: I always want to "Show trimmed content" when replying.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for that? I haven't been able to find one, if there ...
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1answer
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Gmail keyboard shortcut to indicate meeting attendance
When I get a meeting (appointment) invitation in my GMail inbox from another Google Apps user, there are links embedded in the message that I can use to indicate my meeting attendance: "Going? Yes - ...
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2answers
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Speed up usage of Google Reader by eliminating mouse clicks
How could I possibly speed up the usage of Google Reader? Currently, I'm using the following cycle:
Click on a subscription in the list of subscriptions on the left
Scroll through the list of new ...
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1answer
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Netflix keyboard shortcuts
Is there any way to get keyboard shortcuts in Netflix?
I know I can use the space bar to pause and play, but what about skipping forward and backwards?
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2answers
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Disable hotkeys on a specific website
On YouTube it is very frustarting that they override basically every system level hot key. I.e. cmd+l to go to the search bar, cmd+1 to 6 to switch tabs etc.
Is there anyway I could use Greasemonkey ...
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1answer
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How can I disable the CMD + ENTER Gmail “send email” shortcut?
On a Mac hitting CMD + Enter will send the current message (on Windows it is CTRL + Enter). I'm constantly hitting this accidentally and sending emails before I'm done with them. Usually, it's because ...
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How do I select unread messages in Gmail without having to click on the arrow next to the checkbox and then click unread?
A lot of the time the unread messages in my Inbox just need to be archived and I'd rather have a 'quick' way to do it that doesn't require hitting that small arrow next to the master checkbox and then ...
