Ctrl-F proves hard to find

Email
Print

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 6:42p.m.

Media Design School course leader Mason Herber says many people have no need for the shortcut

Media Design School course leader Mason Herber says many people have no need for the shortcut

By David Farrier

A survey by web giant Google has revealed 90 percent of users can't find what they're looking for – they don't know the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-F.

Keyboard shortcuts help users do things faster, and Ctrl-F helps you find a particular word in a document. 

Other common examples – on PCs – include Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-V to paste, Ctrl-P to print and Ctrl-Z to undo .

Media Design School course leader Mason Herber says when “most people use the computer just to browse the Web, Google and Facebook” they have no need for the shortcut.

While he’s shocked at the general lack of knowledge, he says ultimately it won’t matter.

“Over the next few years a lot of computer use is going to be on mobile or web use… and shortcuts will be less useful when you're on a mobile phone,” he says.

Those who find Ctrl-F challenging will be terrified by Mr Herber’s favourite shortcut – it’s Command-Ctrl-Shift-S.

Watch the video for more

3 News

Become a fan of 3 News on Facebook and on Twitter.

Post a Comment

Before commenting, please take the time to read our moderation guide


(Won't be published)



Comments

23 May 2012 12:18a.m.

Al wrote:

Have always used shortcut keys ahead of anything else - namely because as a former IT person, was always called in to fix everyones computers including when I'm not even at work of course and this was always preferable to discovering someone had random keys not working, their menu setups were different, no menu options might be obvious ... a lot are cross-usable, so, it's not that hard. I find the point-and-click with your mouse to be a tad annoying a lot of the time, scrolling through menu after menu sometimes to get to something that a 2 or 3 key combo could get to instantly... Also, it meant I can get rid of menus that cluttered up the screen (let's face it, most people only use about 4-5 things on any given toolbar, the rest may as well be ditched). Most importantly: new layouts in new releases mean some menu options are redesigned, or buried somewhere else. The commands themselves tend to stay the same all the way however...

02 Dec 2011 09:06p.m.

Chloe wrote:

I'm pretty sure that Command + Ctrl + Shift + S is Save to Web. At least that's the shortcut in Photoshop, other Adobe programs have variations on Save for that shortcut.

02 Dec 2011 03:42p.m.

Lula Goodwin wrote:

True enough, my roomate's step-mother makes $71 an hour on the laptop. She has been unemployed for 9 months but last month her income was $8001 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this site... Nuttyrich.com

02 Dec 2011 08:19a.m.

TR wrote:

Good timing on this news story ~ I was thinking of using this for a training class, but I searched on Google for the recent Google Survey and couldn't find it. Can you send me a link to the survey?? Cheers.

01 Dec 2011 09:24p.m.

Doug Martin wrote:

So what does Command-Ctrl-Shift-S do?