Ctrl-Shift-L and Ctrl-Shift-U also often change between upper and lower case: but these vary more. You may need to check your editor’s documentation to find their combo.

And yes – Ctrl-Z is the best combo ever.

With AutoHotkey, I wrote an app that would wait until you hit caps-lock. Then it would send ctrl-c to copy the selected block of text, and then check the length of that. If it was zero-length (ie, you had no text selected) it would act like a regular caps lock key. Otherwise, it would cycle between lower case, Title Case, UPPER CASE and whatever the original case was. (it backed up and restored the clipboard so it didn’t blat that, of course).

Annoyingly, though, too many apps would copy the current line if you had nothing selected, so I stopped using it, because it would bork in those cases :(

If anyone knows how to tell, in Windows, whether some text is currently selected in the focused window, then I can make that util actually be useful. Until then, it’s only useful about 90% of the time. Still, willing to share even that, if you’re interested – it’s an easy enough script.

+CapsLock::SetCapsLockState, % GetKeyState( “CapsLock”, “T” ) ? “OFF” : “ON”
CapsLock::LButton

I doubt anyone here knows the answer, but the command I never found was the one for left-mouse-click. 

Will

but i didnt need a research to realize that most people use a computer like they would use a rocket, if you find that surprising you really need a reality check, step back from the pc and look really hard at the world around you , nor just your neightboarhood

Microsoft applications and OS … display, asdefault, text larger then it “is” (larger then it would be printed out on paper).

Do you have a reference I can look at so I can believe this?

[I]n MS Windows and OS X you can’t use large size system fonts

This one’s even harder to accept. Your opening paragraph/sentence already took the cake, though.

If enough of us agree to pile on with you and say “Microsoft stinks” once, will you cut down on the wild (and as yet unverified) statements?

Microsoft applications and OS, in all their sneakiness, display, as default, text larger then it “is” (larger then it would be printed out on paper), while other systems as default use “the real size” (that is, you could use a physical ruler on the screen to see how large the text would be in print). When people try to use a Linux or BSD derivate, they find squinting at the screen exhausting and quickly change back to MS Windows, because they have never learned that every damn application worth a dime have a zoom function.

Since MS Windows set a limit for how large size you can use with system text (text used for menus, window borders et c.), the users have also never learned that they also could make system text as big as they want in most user interfaces based on the X Windows system (but not in OS X, since that would be repugnant to the (in)famous Steve Jobs esthetics). Instead people with just slightly poor eyesight use a clunky “screen magnifier” that follows the pointer (on a sane computer system, a screen magniifer is only needed by  people who are nearly blind).

Another result of that in MS Windows and OS X you can’t use large size system fonts, is that many people use lower resolution on the screen (to make text bigger,  as ridiculous as it might sound to someone who have never used Microsoft software, that makes text bigger in MS Windows, because Microsoft don’t care about keeping sizes consistent in different screen resolutions, because MS Windows is a dysfunctional toy OS) then their hardware can manage. Lower resolution means harder to read text, then if the text would be if in the same size in higher resolution. Oh, and MS Windows have a software limit for how high resolution you can use, even if your hardware (screen and graphics card) could display higher resolutions, another reason not to use MS Windows. Unfortunatly very few graphics cards and computer screens are nowadays made that is able to display higher resolutions then MS Windows support (and as their demand is small, their prices are high), so their limitations flow over to all of us that doesn’t use that third rate system. Damn you Microsoft, damn you to hell.

Another result of that MS Windows (and some web browsers on other platforms, like Safari) displaying text much bigger then it really is, is that many web-pages, e.g. boingboing.net, use font sizes that are ridiculously small.

However, if you use windows key + e you’d bring up Explorer, take some time to learn folder management and you’d never need to use the search dialogue again as you’d know where everything is and make migration to a new machine so much easier.

It bugs me that people outright refuse to manage their data then bitch about not being able to find it, running out of HDD space (because they have 15 copies of the same stuff all over the place) and losing data either between system upgrades or just in general.

I’m no longer shocked by things like this — I teach computer skills daily as a librarian. But I am shocked that every time I share a post like this, one of my very smart friends (a different one each time, typically) comments about how it’s news to them. Adblock (and similar add-ons) is another one that it seems very few of my friends use, no matter how frequently I see people sharing info about it.

Maybe it’s a perceptual thing. Some people don’t understand that the computer is a machine that can do work for them. It’s more like a TV that they are forced to type things into. They don’t even have the expectation that it could be helpful.

Using the tab bar at the bottom (to switch tasks) or using Edit-Find work just as well for me as reaching to the keyboard, stretching out my fingers, and pushing the right combos. 

In the universe of shortcuts, I suspect that Ctrl X,C,V are the best know because people doing a lot of copying/pasting in their computer work and these truely are time savers.

I will say that the Winkey + Tab combo mentioned here was pretty neat and something I will probably incorporate in my shortcut list going forward.