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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 – Permalink – Type with One HandDoes 85 WPM impress you?
"Computer Keyboard Shortcuts for one hand typists. Resources for vocational, occupational, rehabilitation therapists, and their clients, who have lost full, or partial use of one hand, with a special emphasis on learning to type with a standard keyboard."  "This video clip is of me, Lilly Walters. Note how I use my less able hand to do the SHIFT key. I am typing on a normal keyboard. I really do up to 85 words per minute - with enough caffeine and sleep. The keyboard shown here is a NORMAL keyboard you will find in any office, school or home. No alternative keyboard layouts. Just what all of my peers use. By the way, I type faster than most of my peers! All because I learned to type with one hand." See all Topics <Doug Klippert@ 3:46 AM
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 – Permalink – Date an OctothorpeDate an OctothorpeSome more of those things I'm sure I used to know The keyboard combination of Alt+Shift+D inserts the current date in MS Word and PowerPoint. Ctrl+; (semicolon) does it in Excel and Access. If you do not like the date's format, select a different one with Insert>Date and Time and, if you would like to make that permanent, click on the Default button in the lower left corner of the dialog box (in PowerPoint it's in the lower right corner). In Excel, Ctrl+Shift +# formats the entry as day-month-year. Ctrl+1 will display the "Format cells" dialog box. BTW, the "hash, pound or number" sign # is also called an "octothorpe". The person who named it combined Octo for the eight points and Thorpe for James Thorpe. "Bell Labs engineer, Don Macpherson, went to instruct their first client, the Mayo Clinic, in the use of the new (touch tone phone system). He felt the need for a fresh and unambiguous name for the # symbol. His reasoning that led to the new word was roughly that it had eight points, so ought to start with octo-. He was apparently at that time active in a group that was trying to get the Olympic medals of the athlete Jim Thorpe returned from Sweden, so he decided to add thorpe to the end." While we're at it, the "backwards P, Enter mark" ΒΆ is actually named a "pilcrow". The pilcrow was used in medieval times to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of using paragraphs was commonplace. Also see: Geek-speak names for punctuation marks Wikipedia: Punctuation See all Topics <Doug Klippert@ 3:34 AM
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 – Permalink – Kürzungen für jederAccessibility ShortcutsSeveral resources are available to help increase speed and effectiveness for keyboard users. Here are keyboard shortcuts for leading Microsoft products that help save time and effort and provide an essential tool for some people with mobility impairments.Microsoft.com Keyboard Assistance. See all Topics Labels: Shortcuts <Doug Klippert@ 3:29 AM
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