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

Started by Syt, August 22, 2011, 06:20:17 AM

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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.
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Cecil

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

Razgovory

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 22, 2011, 07:24:46 AM
A lot of people don't know what their emergency brake is for, either.  BFD.

It's for making that grinding noise.
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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.
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Barrister

Quote from: The Brain on August 22, 2011, 07:21:39 AM
So the solution to poorly designed user interface is training? :bleeding:

This. :contract:

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 :cool:), 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. :bleeding:
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Cecil

Quote from: Ideologue on August 22, 2011, 01:16:52 PM
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

Quote from: crazy canuck on August 22, 2011, 02:03:47 PM
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. :D
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Quote from: crazy canuck on August 22, 2011, 02:03:47 PM
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.
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Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

crazy canuck

Quote from: Barrister on August 22, 2011, 02:11:54 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 22, 2011, 02:03:47 PM
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

Quote from: crazy canuck on August 22, 2011, 02:42:25 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 22, 2011, 02:11:54 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 22, 2011, 02:03:47 PM
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.

:yeah: :yeah:
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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!  :lol:

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.
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