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33. These are the people who refused to learn computer in the 1980's and 1990's and then.....

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 05:48 PM

Dec 2012

...finally decided to use computers in the 2000's and still refused to learn about them because "after all they are just point and click these days."

As a tech support person these people have wasted months of my life while wasting hours of their lives every day.

I know an older guy who was 50 and a doctor when computers hit his office in 1978

He refused to learn computers for over 30 years and now constantly wastes the time of myself and at least 3 other care givers haranguing us to fix his self-inflicted computer problems. He prints out 2-3 reams of paper every month just because he refuses to learn to use a word processing program to edit. He prints out emails and then retypes them to forward to others. Insists on visiting "investment" sites that are giving him viruses, I've had to install a child-lock system.

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Only one in 10 know what Ctrl-F does [View all] ErikJ Dec 2012 OP

FIND!!! panAmerican Dec 2012 #1

I use control F probably 20x a day. Love it. JaneyVee Dec 2012 #112

control WHAT? ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2012 #2

command-f on macs cbayer Dec 2012 #3

My son sent me a Mac a long time go truedelphi Dec 2012 #7

Google is your friend... Science Geek Dec 2012 #11

You may want to ramble around your keyboard preferences. cbayer Dec 2012 #12

When you're in some program or mode in Mac OS, Art_from_Ark Dec 2012 #115

Thank you Art_from_Ark, except that much I knew truedelphi Dec 2012 #118

The "flowery X" (with the Apple symbol) is the Command key Art_from_Ark Dec 2012 #121

Thanks. One other DU'er sent me same info truedelphi Dec 2012 #122

My Mac has no command key lunatica Dec 2012 #18

What browser are you using? cbayer Dec 2012 #31

Thank you! I use Firefox and there it is in the bottom left corner! lunatica Dec 2012 #39

So you can just click "next" once you have entered the term and see each cbayer Dec 2012 #43

I love using F9 and F11 lunatica Dec 2012 #45

I rig my Linux box to do an equivalent to OSX's Expose when I throw the mouse to the corner. n/t backscatter712 Dec 2012 #99

Command G will take you to the next instance. Much faster than clicking on 'Next'. ...nt TeeYiYi Dec 2012 #71

I don't see it. When I click on the Mozilla Firefox icon on my desk top it opens to CTyankee Dec 2012 #68

click on apple and the F key at the same time (if you have a Mac) lunatica Dec 2012 #73

I don't have a Mac. I have Windows Vista. What should I look for? CTyankee Dec 2012 #111

Mostly I just use Spotlight. Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #34

It searches the page you are currently on. cbayer Dec 2012 #42

otherwise known as 'open-apple F' Phillip McCleod Dec 2012 #38

Really? Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #4

Yep! StatGirl Dec 2012 #51

I'll bite laundry_queen Dec 2012 #56

CTRL-End StatGirl Dec 2012 #100

Applys to more than XL and word hootinholler Dec 2012 #105

Don't forget Ctrl-Z dragonlady Dec 2012 #69

I was hitting Ctrl-Z all through the Bush years Yavin4 Dec 2012 #70

Unless you're on a unix box... hootinholler Dec 2012 #106

don't forget Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Y Victor_c3 Dec 2012 #119

Add Ctrl-X and Ctrl-Home to your list. n/t unhappycamper Dec 2012 #120

What does Ctrl+F do? Search me. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #5

Yes, and Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #35

are you dancing with Secretariat? SoCalDem Dec 2012 #48

I'm kind of stunned by the number of people who are ignorant of basic keyboard shortcuts Spider Jerusalem Dec 2012 #6

Hey, we live inside a society where truedelphi Dec 2012 #9

4 out of three people don't understand ratios. progressoid Dec 2012 #50

Google used to highlight the word you were searching for under "cache" but they ErikJ Dec 2012 #14

I miss that too :-( . . nt Care Acutely Dec 2012 #96

I have been using computers for 15 years and did not understand the 1st para in the OP DollarBillHines Dec 2012 #21

A LOT of us oldtimers have "taught" ourselves SoCalDem Dec 2012 #49

A dead mouse will invoke a curiosity about keyboard shortcuts quickly. L0oniX Dec 2012 #76

My wife can't figure out how to use a plunger Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #79

Reminds me of this (video) sakabatou Dec 2012 #8

I had to make programmers change a message for the offshore folk Skittles Dec 2012 #15

I told a woman in Italy to "run" a program. She moved it. I tried telling her to "execute" it. ieoeja Dec 2012 #74

doesn't matter how well you train them Skittles Dec 2012 #81

We are not an American institute. ieoeja Dec 2012 #95

Back in the day the standard reply to which is the any key was hootinholler Dec 2012 #26

LOL RKP5637 Dec 2012 #32

I still cant find shortcut for "go to next page" ErikJ Dec 2012 #10

There isn't one... Science Geek Dec 2012 #16

Actually, there is. jeff47 Dec 2012 #20

That's "Forward"... Science Geek Dec 2012 #22

Ahh-yes. That works. Thanks. ErikJ Dec 2012 #36

That takes semantic links, but when pages have them (few do) it's control + right arrow (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #90

I do CTL-F dozens of times a night at work Skittles Dec 2012 #13

Click on "Edit" then click on "Find" Yes INDEEDY!! madinmaryland Dec 2012 #58

in the 50+ screens I monitor Skittles Dec 2012 #64

Just now... sofa king Dec 2012 #88

And not just browser windows. Control-Z Dec 2012 #17

Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are two I used a lot Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #27

Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are supplied by the operating system, unlike Ctrl-F Recursion Dec 2012 #91

It's not user education. jeff47 Dec 2012 #19

Bingo Science Geek Dec 2012 #28

Windows 7 is bad for that. RC Dec 2012 #54

One more reason to be grateful to Microsoft. eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #63

Did Microsoft peak at XP? Cresent City Kid Dec 2012 #66

Yes. Science Geek Dec 2012 #84

Apparently so. I've used Windows7 Enterprise ed. and it barely works with 1.5 GB. eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #117

A lack of RTFM hootinholler Dec 2012 #23

Friendly? Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #40

Yeah, that's the management version hootinholler Dec 2012 #60

The problem is now a days, the manual is a little too friendly. RC Dec 2012 #55

You don't even get a "fine" manual anymore csziggy Dec 2012 #103

You can use F3 in Firefox or Thunderbird. -..__... Dec 2012 #24

Fucking anti-elitists. If EVERYONE knew these, they wouldn't be "shortcuts"; they'd be techniques. Bucky Dec 2012 #25

What's this "Shift+Cntl+Z" crap? In my day we used "Cntl+Y" to redo... and we liked it that way! Bucky Dec 2012 #29

Ctrl+Shift+T is my favorite obscure browser shortcut pokerfan Dec 2012 #61

THANK YOU! JackRiddler Dec 2012 #62

it works in Google too! renate Dec 2012 #83

all my tabby shortcuts pokerfan Dec 2012 #97

Hmmm Raidel Dec 2012 #30

These are the people who refused to learn computer in the 1980's and 1990's and then..... slampoet Dec 2012 #33

Think of him as keeping you employed. lunatica Dec 2012 #44

I'm a care giver. I don't get paid. slampoet Dec 2012 #59

I use that shortcut constantly. It saves tons of time, MineralMan Dec 2012 #37

in vim it's 'page down' n/t ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2012 #41

or forward slash, in control mode (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #92

I wish I had know this earlier. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 #46

Me too! ErikJ Dec 2012 #47

Google cache still exists StatGirl Dec 2012 #101

It doesnt work! ErikJ Dec 2012 #108

That's odd . . . StatGirl Dec 2012 #110

To elaborate... sendero Dec 2012 #52

The wonderful world of Windoz has a large number of shortcut key combinations..... wandy Dec 2012 #53

If only someone would make a SONG to a familiar tune. . . . . annabanana Dec 2012 #57

I can believe that only 1 in 10 people know that. Incitatus Dec 2012 #65

Nice Mr Dixon Dec 2012 #67

I can't tell you if it's control or alt f because its second nature. dkf Dec 2012 #72

Hell ...lots of people don't know about Ctrl-V either. DUH! L0oniX Dec 2012 #75

That's entirely software dependent jberryhill Dec 2012 #77

That's cool. I need that function. Thanks. nt ladjf Dec 2012 #78

You'd be shocked at the number of COMPUTER SCIENCE students I used to see who didn't Xithras Dec 2012 #80

At one time they called those "power user" tricks. davsand Dec 2012 #82

At one time, there were called "coke bottle" sequences gkhouston Dec 2012 #86

Not surprising: Few know what GD SoP is good for, either. Sniff. n/t UTUSN Dec 2012 #85

As a graduate of the Hard Knocks Institute of Technology... lastlib Dec 2012 #87

The slash key works on Firefox, too. If you remember why, you're a geezer like me... (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #89

People have become too dependent on the mouse sdfernando Dec 2012 #93

Most people think that the keyboard SheilaT Dec 2012 #94

Learn your hotkeys - speeds things up a lot! backscatter712 Dec 2012 #98

There are dozens of tools in Windows that most users have no clue about liberal N proud Dec 2012 #102

The reason for this is historical and goes back to the pre-GUI days of computer usage. JoePhilly Dec 2012 #104

Buncha WIMPs hootinholler Dec 2012 #107

LOL ... I totally forgot the WIMP acronym!!!! JoePhilly Dec 2012 #109

Son of a Gun! Hatchling Dec 2012 #113

Search normally. nt bluestate10 Dec 2012 #114

Fascinating Post with lots of Info from Tech People helpful to all of Us...who use KoKo Dec 2012 #116