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15/06/2026

You may have guessed that pressing either Pg Up or Pg Dn moves to the next or previous page. But did you know that when you're browsing the Internet, pressing spacebar moves the scrollbar down a page? Similarly, Shift+spacebar moves the scrollbar up one page. (This one works exactly the same on the Mac).

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08/06/2026

You can control YouTube with keyboard shortcuts. Press either the space bar or K to play or pause a video. Hold down either of these keys for slow motion. Press 0 (zero) or Home to jump to the beginning of a video and End to go to the end. Press J and L to step forward/backward 10 seconds. M mutes or unmutes. F switches between full-screen and normal mode. Esc exits full-screen mode.

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01/06/2026

Everyone agrees that what the world needs now is more emojis, right? ;-) To access your emoji keyboard, press the Windows Key + . (full stop) or Windows + ; (semi-colon) on Windows, and Cmd + Control + Spacebar on MacOS. You can scroll through all the available emojis and categories (People, Nature, Food & Drink, Celebration, Activity, Travel & Places, and Objects & Symbols) or search the full list of emojis from the search box at the top of the window.

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26/05/2026

If your PC is taking too long to boot, it may be because you are running too many programs at startup. You can easily block them for a quicker launch. On Windows, you can run the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc, then click the Startup tab. Click any program in the list then click the Disable button to prevent it from running on startup.

On a Mac, you can block startup applications by going to System Preferences > Users & Groups > [your username] and clicking on the Login Items tab.

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18/05/2026

Did you know that holding down the Alt key and repeatedly presssing the Tab key (the one above the Caps Lock key on most UK keyboards) allows you to cycle through all your windows? Alt + Shift + Tab will cycle backward. In macOS, the shortcut is Cmd + Tab (Cmd + Shift + Tab for reverse). This makes switching back and forth between running apps quick and painless.

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11/05/2026

Pressing Windows Key + L will lock your computer on Windows, leaving your open programs still running in the background ready for you. Just enter your password to resume where you left off. On macOS High Sierra and later, you use Cmd + Ctrl + Q.

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27/04/2026

Need to rename a group of files in the same way? On Windows, select all the files to rename and right-click on any of them, choose "Rename" from the menu, and type in the new name. This will rename all the files with that name and a numbered suffix: (1), (2), etc.

On the Mac, select the files you want to rename, right-click (or hold down Ctrl and click) the group, and choose "Rename [Number] Items" from the menu. Type in the new name, and the files will be renamed with a trailing number.

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20/04/2026

To delete the whole word on the left, you can type Ctrl + Backspace. To jump over words you can type Ctrl + Left-Arrow or Ctrl + Right-Arrow.

Usually on the Mac you just change Ctrl to Command, but in this case you need the Option key instead: Option + Backspace, Option + Left-Arrow, and so on.

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13/04/2026

To hide (but not close) all open windows, you can type the Windows key + D. Then you can press Win + D once to restore those now-minimized windows. On macOS, you can type Command + F3.

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30/03/2026

Did you know you can undo almost any action in Windows? You may already know that pressing Ctrl + Z will undo anything you've just typed, but this also applies to everything else. If you accidentally move or delete a file, hitting Ctrl + Z will bring it right back. If it turns out that you didn't need to undo after all, you can redo anything you've undone by pressing Ctrl + Y.

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