Monday, March 19, 2007

Tips and Tricks - Keyboard Shortcuts

QuickDeck is all about creating presentations as quickly as possible right? One mantra I try to live by is Work Smarter, Not Harder. Sure, you could use your mouse to navigate around sites and click here or there, but there are times when keyboard navigation is much more efficient.

(I personally cringe every time I see someone editing a Microsoft Word document that manually clicks on the Save button instead of using Ctrl+S shortcuts.)

Browser support for keyboard shortcuts varies. Each browser uses it's own key combination to trigger the shortcuts. Folks running Apple computers may have a slightly different configuration as well. Here's a quick breakdown of the different browser key modifiers used to trigger keyboard shortcuts:

  • Firefox - Alt+Shift

  • Opera - Shift+Esc

  • Internet Explorer - Alt



In order to accommodate those savvy users out there that prefer keyboard navigation we've been hard at work to ensure that QuickDeck supports keyboard shortcuts. For example, to add a new slide to your presentation using Firefox you can press Alt+Shift+N instead of clicking on the New Slide button.



Make sure to scan around the application for other actions that have keyboard shortcuts. You should be able to identify them by the special underlined character styling.

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