Control-Backspace
Monday, November 27th, 2006Ok, so call me an idiot, I’ve been using computers my entire life and I never new this before, but pressing control-backspace erases an entire word, while control-arrow key will move forward and back a word.
Am I just stupid and never learned this, or is it something that most people don’t know about?
Well, I didn’t know about it but it doesn’t work on Macs. 😀
I didn’t know about it till I accidentally did it the other day while typing on a PC at school. So you’re not the only one who didn’t know about it ;).
On the Mac it is option+delete to remove a word or fn+option+delete to remove the next word (on the MacBook anyway).
I knew about the control(option on mac)–>arrow thing, but not the backspace.
nope! i didn’t know that either–any of it about the deleting thing–but then again, is that really shocking? hahahaha ;D
I did know about the control-arrow thing like nosraL etaN but not the backspace either. That’s pretty nifty! Thanks for sharing!
One other thing…you probably already know this, but I have to share my amazing wealth of knowledge with you guys 😀 : Control-Space will take you down the page. Control-Enter is great for Extemp. and negative briefs because it allows you to start a new page. Control-Shift-> or < allows you to change the size of your font after you’ve Control-A’d all your text. Okay, you probably know all the rest of the tricks and these…but if not, well, be informed. 😀
Alt Backspace undo’s a deleted word at a time