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Why tab is probably the most underrated key on your keyboard

It just a matter of knowing when to use it.

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Update: this article now contains a picture of a significantly less horrible keyboard than before. Apologies for any distress caused.

THE TAB KEY is primarily used to distribute text evenly between the left and right margins, but there are other uses as well. Some of them are small additions but can help speed up certain tasks.

It’s just a matter of knowing when to use it.

The most common use for it is when you’re filling out a form. Pressing Tab will take you to the next unfilled box or segment. If you need to return to a previous section, pressing Tab + Shift will take you in the opposite direction.

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The same thing applies to any webpage or email that can be interacted with. Pressing Tab in an email will cycle you through ‘cc’, subject line, the body of the email and the send button.

Pressing Alt + Tab (Windows)/Cmd + Tab (Mac) will cycle you through all the programmes you’ve opened.

If you press Ctrl + Tab while you’re in Chrome, it will allow you to switch between tabs in order. Holding down Ctrl + Shift + Tab will move you in the opposite direction.

Pressing Windows + Tab will cycle you through the taskbar buttons. Pressing Shift + Windows + Tab will bring you through Start, the Quick Launch toolbar, and system tray.

They may seem like small actions, and they are, but if you haven’t been using them before, then they’ll really help speed things up for you.

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:04 PM

    Hindsight should be this government’s manifesto.

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:06 PM

    @Will Roche: “Say the line, Bart!” “Lessons were learned.” “Yaaaayyyyyy!”

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:08 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: I am waiting for them to say, “Sure we are not as bad as the lads next door”

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:51 PM

    ‘said that there was no evidence that they were bought for a celebration for that evening’
    Would that picture not stands as evidence?

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:41 PM

    You and your departments seem to make a lot of mistakes if the job is to big for you resign. It seem you are not running your departments properly and you are only interested in what your E. U. masters to you

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:56 PM

    Yes you should’ve raised the issue with the Secretary General instead of raising glasses of bubbly

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    Feb 8th 2022, 7:11 PM

    comments section must of been left open by mistake (:(:

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:09 PM

    Another great witch hunt about to begin fascinating that was not one gathering of journalists anywhere in Ireland during lockdown
    So a wonderful virtuous and honourable industry
    Or ………..Omerta as was the case with Irelands most famous cocaine snorting DJ

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:31 PM

    @Jerry Slattery: Holding people in positions of power and influence for valid and proven reasons is not a witch hunt. By your photo I assume you are old enough to remember the days in which Irish politicians routinely and blatantly paraded their indifference and even indignation to being held to account for their own actions (often corrupt). Coveney is no f-o-o-l and he knows this should have been dealt with differently.

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    Feb 8th 2022, 6:32 PM

    @David A. Murray: Holding to account people……

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    Feb 8th 2022, 7:23 PM

    @Jerry Slattery: Oh, won’t somebody please think of the witches! You seem to think the people who make our laws should be free to decide which of those laws they have to obey, themselves. Have I got that right?

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    Feb 8th 2022, 9:53 PM

    Coveney should have become a whistle-blower…lol

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    Feb 9th 2022, 12:00 AM

    These tribunals over nonsense ‘storm-in-a-teacup’ allegations are such a waste of tax payer money and government time when there is much more pressing business like the rising cost of living and housing etc. Seems like when one “scandal” dries up another one rears its head.. I’m all for accountability and standards in public office, but people need to see the big picture and get over it.. Have these public accounts or oireachtas committee appearances or internal investigations ever amounted to anything other than a headline that just fades over time?

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