Most people have never heard of Ctrl+F

[Jeremy]

http://search.slashdot.org/story/11/08/20/0056221/Most-People-Have-Never-Heard-of-CTRLF

"Google search anthropologist Dan Russell says that 90 percent of people in his studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page. 'I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for,' says Russell, who has studied thousands of people on how they search for stuff. 'At the end I'll say to them, "Let me show one little trick here," and very often people will say, "I can't believe I've been wasting my life!"' Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we're looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing, says Alexis Madrigal. 'I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all,' writes Madrigal. 'We're talking about the future of almost all knowledge acquisition and yet schools don't spend nearly as much time on this skill as they do on other equally important areas.'"

 

[Yokie]

Boy, do I feel like a ******...

 

[Bacon Boy]

On a Mac, it's Command F.

 

[Mino]

I find myself attempting to cmd+F in real life. As in, my thumb literally twitches toward the command key and my index finger tries to press F. This has happened often when looking in the refrigerator.

 

[Psychonaut]

I find myself attempting to cmd+F in real life. As in, my thumb literally twitches toward the command key and my index finger tries to press F. This has happened often when looking in the refrigerator.

you hit ctrl with your thumb?

what a weirdo :S

 

[Ricano]

Boy, do I feel like a ******...

This

 

[Jeremy]

I find myself attempting to cmd+F in real life. As in, my thumb literally twitches toward the command key and my index finger tries to press F. This has happened often when looking in the refrigerator.

I do this with textbooks.

 

[Mino]

you hit ctrl with your thumb?

what a weirdo :S

Not control. Command. It's right next to the spacebar on Macs.

 

[Jas0n]

Not control. Command. It's right next to the spacebar on Macs.

Which is so much more convenient than where CTRL is placed.

 

[Psychonaut]

Not control. Command. It's right next to the spacebar on Macs.

then where is your alt? ?_?

 

[MasterC]

I always forget about the Control+F command lol.

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I'll have to remember that... I doubt I will.

 

[Tyeforce]

I do this with textbooks.

Me too! XD Sometimes I just sit there wishing that ⌘F worked in real life, lol.

then where is your alt? ?_?

It's called Option, and it's between Control and Command.

 

[Psychonaut]

Me too! XD Sometimes I just sit there wishing that ⌘F worked in real life, lol.


It's called Option, and it's between Control and Command.

what a silly keyboard, there isn't even a windows key!

 

[Yokie]

what a silly keyboard, there isn't even a windows key!

I lol'd.

 

[Caius]

Going from windows to mac and back again makes copy and pasting a rageworthy experience.

 

[Callie]

I do this with textbooks.

I do this as well. Or with any book I'm using for research.

 

[FallChild]

When I first found out, I think I was inwardly crying. With joy or my stupidity, I'll never know.

 

[Caius]

CTRL+F is a lifesaver when it comes to E textbooks.

 

[Callie]

CTRL+F is a lifesaver when it comes to E textbooks.

My teachers sometimes scan text book pages and upload them to the school website if they don't give us the text book because we'll only use it for a short amount of time. But they make it a PDF D: