If there's one thing Reddit users are good at, it's coming up with clever tricks — especially on computers.
And in one post, a Redditor asked fellow users what computer tricks everyone should know. People submitted a wealth of tricks for Macs, PCs, web browsers, specific sites like YouTube, programs like Excel, and more. What they all had in common was that using them makes your computer life a whole lot easier and more fun.
We looked through the tricks and found the best 14, which are a mixture of useful and mischievous.
Here they are:
Get back that tab you accidentally closed.
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If you want to get back a tab you closed, just press "Control" (or "Command" on Mac), plus "Shift," plus "T," and it will magically reappear.
If you press the F4 button in Excel, it repeats the last command.
Here's an example given on Reddit: "If you select a cell and highlight it yellow, you can then highlight any other selected cell(s) yellow by pressing F4."
All you have to do to make a copy of a file on a Mac is hold the "Alt" key ("Control" if you are using a PC) and then click and drag the file. This will make a copy that you can drop anywhere you want by un-clicking.
This is what someone says is a photo of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. AP
In Google Chrome, if you press "S" while you right click on an image it will do a reverse Google search. That means you'll be able to see where that photo is and where it potentially originated.
Pause YouTube with one click, or skip backward and forward 10 seconds.
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Most people know you can hit the space bar to pause a YouTube video, but sometimes this causes it to scroll down the page if you haven't already clicked on the video. If you press "K," this will play (or pause) the video every time.
Hitting the "J" key will cause you to go backward 10 seconds, while hitting the "L" key will make you go forward 10 seconds.
File photo of young girls screaming as they spin around on a ride at the annual San Diego County Fair Thomson Reuters
If you press "Control" plus "Alt" plus one of the arrow keys, it will rotate your screen that way. Note: this doesn't work for all computers (and only on Windows), but when it does, it can seriously freak someone out.
If you want to play a trick on someone, and send them a fake screenshot of something that never existed, there's an easy way in Chrome. First you bring up the console by pressing "F12."
Then you enter: document.designMode = "on"
After this, you can edit any of the text that appears on the screen.