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Friday, February 05, 2010

You Can Always Escape from an Awkward Situation

From time to time you will find yourself "stuck" in some sort of dead-end.

Perhaps you have opened up (or been led into) a dialogue box or GUI form, and have no idea where to go ; you'd like to get back to a safe place.

Perhaps you have begun to select a menu item, by mouse or keyboard.

Perhaps everything just seems "stuck".

Try tapping the escape key, marked "Esc", top-left corner of your keyboard.

Nine times out of ten, this will back you out of a tight spot.

Why does this work?

The Escape key is commonly tied to the Cancel button of a dialogue box, and can be a fast and effective way of unloading the dialogue box.

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