13 Alt key tips for IT people to know

Time is money, and efficiency is more important for the ever-changing IT industry. As an IT person, there are many ways to improve work efficiency, and you can also do it from many aspects. Today, I am talking about some practical skills of the Alt key in the Windows system that we usually use most often.

1. Activate the operation command

Press the Alt key to activate the menu bar of the active window, making the first menu of the menu bar a highlight bar, and pressing the Alt key and a letter You can activate the menu item represented by this letter. If you press Alt+F, you can activate the “File” menu of the current window. In addition, in the dialog box, press the Alt key and the underlined letter at the same time to select the option and perform the corresponding operation.

2. Terminate a process

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to pop up a “Close Program” dialog box, select a process, and then click “End Task” The process can be terminated quickly. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del again to restart your computer.

3. Pop-up drop-down list

In the dialog box, you can use the Alt+Down arrow key to pop up the selected drop-down list, so as not to move the mouse to find and click the down arrow button in the list box. bitter.

4. Quickly view properties

Press the Alt+Enter key combination or hold down the Alt key while left-clicking on an object (such as a folder in the right window of Explorer). Files, icons on the desktop, etc., if the folder in the left window does not work, you can quickly open its Properties dialog. The effect is equivalent to clicking the right mouse button and selecting "Properties".

5. Switch DOS window

Press Alt+Enter to switch MS-DOS in window and full screen mode.

6. Universal capture hotkey

In the running game or other application software, when the beautiful screen appears on the screen, press the Alt+PrintScreen key combination on the keyboard. Copy the contents of the current active window or dialog box to the clipboard, then call the "brush" or other drawing program, and select the "Paste" item in the "Edit" menu to bring up a beautiful picture. Of course, if we just press the PrintScreen button, we will capture the picture in full screen.

7. Close the application

Press Alt+F4 to close any application in the quickest way, instead of looking in the file menu or toolbar and clicking "Exit" or "shut down".

8. Switch application

Hold down the Alt key and press the Tab key continuously to display the icon and current activation of all programs currently running in a dialog box. The icon of the program and its name, as long as the Alt key is released, you can immediately switch to the application, called "cold switching."

10. Open Control Menu

In the application, press Alt+Spacebar to open the system control menu directly.

11. Undo the previous step

In the various dialogs of Windows 98, all operations on the edit box can be undone by the Alt+Backspace key, and the effect and Ctrl+Z are completely same. This feature is also applicable to Microsoft's word processing software, such as Notepad, Writer, WORD and so on. In addition, this key combination can also be used to undo file operations such as file movement or renaming.

12. Switching Accessibility Options

For specific users who need accessibility shortcuts, the Alt key can also help. For example, press the left Alt+Left Shift+Printscreen button to toggle the high contrast switch; press the left Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock button to toggle the mouse button switch.

13. In Word

When selecting text, if you press the Alt key and then drag the mouse, the column selection mode (otherwise, the row selection mode); drag the ruler or When you format a table line, you can't see the exact data, but if you press the Alt key and then drag or click, you can get accurate data.

The 13 practical tips of the Alt key are finished. I believe they will definitely help you improve your productivity. After you become familiar with each skill, you will become a shortcut key.