【 Weak current College 】 13 ALT key skills

Time is money, fast-changing IT industry terms, efficiency is more important. As an it person, improve work efficiency is there are a number of ways, can also be many ways to do that today pen is our usual most common Windows operating systems the ALT key practical skills.

1. activate the command

Press the ALT key to activate the menu bar of the active window, the menu bar of the first menu becomes highlighted, and press the ALT key and a letter you can activate this letter represents the menu item, press ALT + F you can activate the current window "file (File)" menu. In addition, in the dialog box, press the ALT key and the underlined letters you can select this option and perform the appropriate action.

2. to terminate a process

Press Ctrl + Alt + Del key combination to bring up a "close program" dialog box, select a process, and then click on the "end task" to quickly terminate the process. And once again press the Ctrl + Alt + Del key combination you can restart the computer.

3. the pop-up drop-down list

In the dialog box, you can use Alt + down arrow key to eject a selected drop-down list, in order to move the mouse to look for and click on the arrow button under the list box.

4. quick view properties

Press ALT + Enter key combination or hold down the Alt key and the left mouse button double click an object (such as Explorer to the right window of the folder, file, the icons on your desktop, a folder in the left window does not work), you can quickly open it the "Properties" dialog box. Its role is equivalent to a point, right-click, and select "Properties".

5. switch the DOS window

Press ALT + Enter key combination can be a window and full screen mode toggle MS-DOS.

6. Universal capture hotkey

Running games or other applications, on the screen appear fine screen when you press Alt + key on the keyboard, the PrintScreen key combinations you can use the current active window or dialog box, copy the contents to the Clipboard, and then calls a "brush" or another drawing program, select "Edit" menu's "Paste", you can bring up a beautiful picture. Of course, if you just press the PrintScreen key, is a full-screen shots.

7. close the application

Press ALT + F4 can be the quickest way to shut down any applications, instead of on the file menu or tool bar to look for and click the "exit" or "off".

8. switch applications

Hold down the Alt key, then press the tab key you can in a dialog box shows all the currently running program's icon and the currently active program's icon and name, as soon as you release the ALT key you can immediately switch to that application, referred to as "cold switch".

10. open the control menu

In the application, press ALT + SPACEBAR can directly open the system control menu.

11. Undo last action

In Windows98 in all dialog box, on the edit box of operations are available through Alt + BACKSPACE to undo, and CTRL + Z. This feature also applies to Microsoft's word processing software, such as Notepad, writer, WORD, etc. In addition, you can also use the key combination to undo files moved or renamed, and other file operations.

12. switch accessibility options

On the need to use the accessibility shortcut keys for a specific user, the ALT key as a helping hand. For example, press left Alt + left Shift + Printscreen key to switch high contrast switch; pressing the left Alt + left Shift + NumLock key to switch the mouse switch.

13. in Word

When you select text, if you press the ALT key and then drag the mouse; otherwise, the column selection mode (otherwise a row selection mode); in drag ruler or table line, you cannot see the accurate data, but if you hold down the ALT key and then drag or click, you can get an accurate data.

ALT key practical skills of 13 say, believe that they should be able to help you improve productivity, in the familiar after each skill will be able to become a shortcut key.