Google dude: 90% of people don't know how to use CTRL+F

[mongers]

I just pound my keyboard and scream profanities.

enough of your sex life.

[PDH]

Did you see that abortion of fan art he posted in the off topic topic? Jesus wept.

I did, and I read the explanation....someone deserves a cock-punch.

[Cecil]

Well I suppose you learn something new every day. And I´ve been using computers every day since the 80ies.

[Razgovory]

A lot of people don't know what their emergency brake is for, either.  BFD.

It's for making that grinding noise.

[Ideologue]

People not using CTRL+F doesn't mean they don't use the find function.  I've never used the keyboard shortcut, I access it from the menu.

[Barrister]

So the solution to poorly designed user interface is training?

This.

We've known since at least 1984 that requiring a series of arcane keyboard commands just doesn't work well.  Now I do know Ctrl-F (well, Command-F actually ), and several others, but any feature that relies on command keys is going to be a fature that few people use.

As an aside, hands up by everyone who remembers those godawful keyboard layovers showing what all the F commands did in programs like WordPerfect 5.1.

[Cecil]

People not using CTRL+F doesn't mean they don't use the find function.  I've never used the keyboard shortcut, I access it from the menu.

Something like that yeah but I guess that would make for a less condescending article no? 

[crazy canuck]

20 years ago knowing the appropriate keystroke shortcuts was a bit odd (hence the keyboard overlays BB talked about).  Now not knowing it is considered odd.

My how times change.

[garbon]

20 years ago knowing the appropriate keystroke shortcuts was a bit odd (hence the keyboard overlays BB talked about).  Now not knowing it is considered odd.

My how times change.

I'm not sure I'd highlight keyboard shortcuts as an example of how times change. Really minor when compared to things like smartphones and the like.

[Barrister]

20 years ago knowing the appropriate keystroke shortcuts was a bit odd (hence the keyboard overlays BB talked about).  Now not knowing it is considered odd.

My how times change.

That's not what I said at all.

I think 25 years ago a lot more people know keyboard shortcuts.  Now, thanks to the rise of the GUI, they're much less common.  With the rise of touch interfaces maybe we can finally kill them off for good.

[Razgovory]

I didn't until someone on this board told me.

[crazy canuck]

20 years ago knowing the appropriate keystroke shortcuts was a bit odd (hence the keyboard overlays BB talked about).  Now not knowing it is considered odd.

My how times change.

That's not what I said at all.

I think 25 years ago a lot more people know keyboard shortcuts.  Now, thanks to the rise of the GUI, they're much less common.  With the rise of touch interfaces maybe we can finally kill them off for good.

You are definitely the most literal person I know.

[Barrister]

20 years ago knowing the appropriate keystroke shortcuts was a bit odd (hence the keyboard overlays BB talked about).  Now not knowing it is considered odd.

My how times change.

That's not what I said at all.

I think 25 years ago a lot more people know keyboard shortcuts.  Now, thanks to the rise of the GUI, they're much less common.  With the rise of touch interfaces maybe we can finally kill them off for good.

You are definitely the most literal person I know.

[grumbler]

What I find hilarious about all these "well, duh, I just click and click and click until I find what I want, rather than using the old-dashioned keyboard shortcuts" posters is that the keyboard shortcuts are right there in the dropdown menu where they are clicking away! 

It isn't that they are new-fashioned, it is that they aren't paying attention.

I never use the click-click-click method to do any common tasks on a computer, where there is a keyboard shortcut to do the same thing.  ctrl + C, ctrl + v, delete key, ctrl + z, all of these are faster by far than clicking in dropdowns, and easy to remember once you start using them.

[Siege]

Dammit, I need Ctrl-F in real life.

What do you mean? That internet life ain't real?