Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day


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.

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