This week I had a bit of a “smart cookie” moment with my partner, which I thought was worth sharing with you all. One thing you should know about my partner is that he’s very capable with computers – he can type at 100 words per minute, his nickname in the office is “The King of Spreadsheets”, and he’s built his own computer from scratch in the past.
But it turns out that even the most knowledgeable of dogs still have new tricks to learn, as I discovered the other night. I was watching him rename some files, and I noticed that he was doing it in quite a long-winded way, so I asked him if he’d ever thought of using the F2 key on the keyboard.
“The what key?” he responded. I then pointed out the row of Function keys across the top of the keyboard, and showed him that if you click on a file in File Explorer, and then tap the F2 key once, it highlights the file name so that you can type a new name instead, and press Enter to save it.
He thought this was marvellous, and spent a happy five minutes playing around with it. When I told him to open his web browser, and showed him that the F5 key would refresh the page, he was cock-a-hoop!
The only exception to this rule with the Function keys is that on some keyboards (especially laptops) they double up some of the keys as they’re a bit pushed for space. So if your F2 key has another icon on it, like a speaker icon, then you might need to hold down the “Fn” key on your keyboard while you press F2 to rename the file.
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And finally, just to let you know that this is the last time I’m going to mention the new books to you privileged few in these newsletters! They’re now going to go on sale to the general public. If you want a last look at all the info before they’re available to the masses, click here.
By the way, after the delay with the journals, we’re clearing the backlog of new book orders this morning and they’ll all go out today. Hope you like them!