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In which we make informative posts about built-in software accessibility features that are commonly overlooked because nobody ever documents them:
In most Windows-based applications, double-clicking a piece of text will select the full word you’re pointing at, while triple-clicking will select the full paragraph.
If you’re bad at clicking and dragging, you can also select a range of text by single-clicking the starting point of your desired selection, pressing and holding the SHIFT key, and single-clicking the ending point.
For extra precision, you can also single-click the starting point, then hold down the SHIFT key and use the left and right arrow keys to adjust your selection range letter by letter. A lot of people know about this in text editors; the interesting (and less well-known) part is that it works even in applications with no visible cursor, like web browsers.
If you hold the CTRL key while clicking and dragging to select text, you can select multiple discontinuous ranges, then copy-and-paste them as a single operation.
Find right-clicking and using the context menu awkward? CTRL+C is copy and CTRL+V is paste. (This incidentally circumvents those asinine “right-clicking is disabled!” scripts.)
Go ahead and add your own!
Here’s one for digital artists: do you need to work really close in, but that makes you mess up because you can’t see what the piece looks like normally?
Most digital art programs will let you open multiple windows on the same piece simultaneously, each with its own independent zoom level and other settings.
Making changes in one window will update all of the others in real time, so you can work at 800% zoom and see the effects of what you’re doing at 100% zoom at the same time.
In Adobe Photoshop, it’s Window > Arrange > New Window For [name] in the top menu. It’s right at the bottom of the Arrange menu; if you have multiple files open, you’ll see multiple menu items.
In GIMP, it’s View > New View. You don’t need to select a file here - it’s automatically the one that was most recently active.
Your own art program probably has a similar option.
prokopetz:
prokopetz:
In which we make informative posts about built-in software accessibility features that are commonly overlooked because nobody ever documents them:
In most Windows-based applications, double-clicking a piece of text will select the full word you’re pointing at, while triple-clicking will select the full paragraph.
If you’re bad at clicking and dragging, you can also select a range of text by single-clicking the starting point of your desired selection, pressing and holding the SHIFT key, and single-clicking the ending point.
For extra precision, you can also single-click the starting point, then hold down the SHIFT key and use the left and right arrow keys to adjust your selection range letter by letter. A lot of people know about this in text editors; the interesting (and less well-known) part is that it works even in applications with no visible cursor, like web browsers.
If you hold the CTRL key while clicking and dragging to select text, you can select multiple discontinuous ranges, then copy-and-paste them as a single operation.
Find right-clicking and using the context menu awkward? CTRL+C is copy and CTRL+V is paste. (This incidentally circumvents those asinine “right-clicking is disabled!” scripts.)
Go ahead and add your own!
Here’s one for digital artists: do you need to work really close in, but that makes you mess up because you can’t see what the piece looks like normally?
Most digital art programs will let you open multiple windows on the same piece simultaneously, each with its own independent zoom level and other settings.
Making changes in one window will update all of the others in real time, so you can work at 800% zoom and see the effects of what you’re doing at 100% zoom at the same time.
In Adobe Photoshop, it’s Window > Arrange > New Window For [name] in the top menu. It’s right at the bottom of the Arrange menu; if you have multiple files open, you’ll see multiple menu items.
In GIMP, it’s View > New View. You don’t need to select a file here - it’s automatically the one that was most recently active.
Your own art program probably has a similar option.
