Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Shift+F1: What is this?

Posted in Applications by estephen on February 29th, 2008

Major applications support Shift+F1 to let you know what a particular part of the screen is about. Hit Shift+F1 and your point turns into an arrow with a question mark (presuming your application supports this feature). Then click on something you want to know about, and some contextual help will appear.

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  1. Jimmy said,

    on March 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    I already knew this shortcut, as well as some of the other ones listed on here. But in general, you’re maintaining a really nice archive of very useful shortcuts (one I do and don’t know). Keep at it! P.S. how’s the little one?

  2. estephen said,

    on April 14th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Thanks for the kind words, Jimmy!

    You can check out updates about my family over at my main blog, http://www.zeigen.com/blog/ but in short, she’s doing great! Starting to eat solid food, and taunt us with the possibility of someday sleeping through the night.

  3. DTurnidge said,

    on March 4th, 2010 at 8:12 am

    I have a Citrix application for which F13, or SHIFT+F1 clears messages. However, Win7 captures the key stroke and pops the Start menu instead. I would like to disable the SHIFT+F1 key for windows so it can be used in MY application. Any ideas?

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