Sybil: What happened with me on this was that I was flipped to "File" in upper left corner of OE. Well it is good to know the short cut to that!!! :) Thanks!! Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sybil Chapman" <schapman@tex1.net> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Searching for a word in E-mail Message > Don't know if this will work in OE, but on some sites if you hold down the > Alt key while you strike the f key and popup will show up and highlight what > you are looking for.
You have discovered an often unused feature available in many programs, Jane. If you look carefully at the toolbar on many screens you will see that some of the items have one of the letters in their name unlined - "F" in File; "E" in Edit; "V" in View; "O" in Format; "W" in Windows, etc. Just by pressing the ALT key and any one of those underlined letters will activate the corresponding action the name designates and open the context menu. Then in the context menu you will see there are more unlined letters. So by pressing, say ALT-T-O, it will open the Tools context menu and then open the Options menu within Tools. Many people become quite adept at using keystrokes rather then the mouse and these shortcuts are quick and easy to memorise. Similarly the WIN key in association with various keys can perform many functions. A general list is available here: http://members.shaw.ca/xany/tips/keyboard.html Lance -----Original Message----- From: Jane Gillespie [mailto:gillespie4491@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, 22 August 2004 08:56 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Searching for a word in E-mail Message Sybil: What happened with me on this was that I was flipped to "File" in upper left corner of OE. Well it is good to know the short cut to that!!! :) Thanks!! Jane --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0434-2, 2004-08-20 Tested on: 22/08/2004 10:41:50 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com