Shifty Highlighting
What's the first thing you need to do to format, move or copy text?
Highlight it, of course!
Which, as we all know, is easy enough to do with the mouse, but for those of you who truly prefer the keyboard, it can be a pain.
The whole secret behind highlighting with the keyboard is the Shift key.
The Shift key?
Here's a list of key combinations that address all of your highlighting needs:
- Shift + left or right arrow will highlight one letter.
- Shift + Ctrl + left or right arrow will highlight one word.
- Shift + up or down arrow will highlight one line of text.
- Shift + Ctrl + up or down arrow will highlight one paragraph at a time, starting from the cursor's current location.
- In MS Excel: Shift + arrow will highlight one cell at a time or, if used in a combination, blocks of cells.
- Shift + Home will highlight from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
- Shift + Ctrl + Home will highlight from the cursor to the top of the document.
- Shift + End will highlight from the cursor to the end of the line.
- Shift + Ctrl + End will highlight from the cursor to the end of the document.
- Shift + Page Up or Page Down will highlight one screen.
To find Internet Explorer 7 History, Ctrl + H will bring up your History bar
This is the neatest search engine. You will beta test the search engine as you use it and your feedback will help shape its future!
So, how do you get started? Well, I’d start by watching the demo video. It demonstrates how the search engine works, how you use it and how nifty it really is! The video will also help you figure out if Search Me is something that appeals to you and if it's something you would use or not.
To begin using the search engine, type in your e-mail address and click on the Get Started button. That will take you to the next page where you will confirm your e-mail address, create a password, provide your name (optional) and then click on the Register button. After all that, you’re registered!
You’ll now be in the Before You Get Started section. Here you’ll find five tips from the Search Me team. Follow the link to the private beta, which is the search engine’s page. Now, think of something you want to search for. I was eating pistachios at the time, so that’s what I looked up!
Once you’ve entered in your query, you’ll find your results under the Everything category. You’ll also see some helpful tips on the left side of the page. To narrow down your search, you can select to filter the results with one of the categories at the top of the page. I chose Blogs from the choices, because I was curious to see if people have written about pistachios in their blogs. What I found was a very interesting idea for pistachio marzipan cinnamon rolls. Very intriguing!
This is a visual search engine and you can see the actual Web pages as you flip through your results. It’s like sitting down with a magazine of search results on your topic!
I’d like to see this search engine grow and become mainstream! Check it out today. I really don’t think you’ll be disappointed!
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