I’m One Zealous Copier
Last week, while I was happily working away, moderating my little heart out, I broke the C key on my laptop keyboard. I guess the strain of all the copying and pasting I do while working was too much for it to handle and it just broke in half. Luckily the button itself still worked and I could still work without having to resort to <shudder> actually using my mouse and the menus to do my copying and pasting. But I wonder why the V key, also integral to the copy-and-paste routine didn’t break? I hope it’s not lying in wait to bust on me any minute now. Thankfully Jake took my laptop to the Mac store today where a Genius gave me a new key. I guess he just had some spare Cs sitting around. Maybe this is a more common problem then I realized.
But it made me wonder something. I don’t use key stroke commands for most things - I don’t use them to save, print, bold, underline…. any of that. I only use Command A,C, X and V (control for you PC users) for select all, copy, cut and paste. And the thing is that I HATE to use the mouse any more than I have to. I’m always the girl who wants to be able to tab through or hit the enter key rather than clicking with my mouse. I get irritated when websites don’t allow me to do that. So why don’t I use the keystrokes for more commands?
Which are you? Keyboard or mouse? Or a hybrid, apparently like I am?
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If I could do everything with the key commands, I’d be happy. I do as much as I can with them.
One of my biggest (and few) irritations with the Mac is that they don’t have key commands that work quite as smoothly as the PC. But they do key command many more functions, it would seem. Plus Mac app developers LOVE their key commands to, so they build in a great many combos (shift+control+tab+x+2+enter = magic!)
That said, I also use the trackpad and my thumbs to mouse+keyboard without touching an external mouse.
Now I have to disable the track pad most of the time because I will accidentally do things I didn’t mean to do when I’m typing. That was the biggest headache I had about getting a laptop in the first place. I HATE the track pad.
I use Apple-N (new window), Apple-T (new tab), and Apple-W a lot, too. Apple-Shift-4 (and the spacebar version) is my very best friend, though, since I write a lot of instructions that require screenshots.
I have two finger tap to right click turned on on my MacBook, though, so I never use an external mouse (except at work).
Oh, and of course I can’t talk about key commands and trackpads without pointing out the new MacBook Pro multi-touch functionality that lets you do the pinching, scrolling, and paging like the iPhone.
I’m a keyboarder. Back a few years ago when I was doing temp office work I had a supervisor who insisted on showing me how to do EVERYTHING involving word processing and would simply not allow me to keyboard. I finally told her to give me some space (basically leave my cube) and for that, I got fired. So. Keyboard at your own risk!