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[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 156 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought this was a trick to get Windows users to nuke their system or something...

Nope, it actually opens LinkedIn.

"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+W" opens Word in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+T" opens Teams in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+X" opens Excel in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+P" opens Powerpoint in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+O" opens ~~Outlook in a browser~~ the locally installed Outlook program

Classic Microsoft.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's because the surface book added an Office button which was just a macro for Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win

More recently, "LShift+Win+F23" opens Copilot

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

More recently, “LShift+Win+F23” opens Copilot

That's insane considering 99% of users have never heard of F23 and the ones who know use a separate shortcut to activate it. I've never seen a keyboard with all 24 function keys.

[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Because you weren’t around when the keyboards were gigantic. IBM keyboard

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

That's nothing...that keyboard don't even have the trackball

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[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago

Oh shit i gotta be careful. F23 is what i "push" via python script to keep my teams status green...

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Microsoft just broke your workflow

[-] coffeejoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Remember when they would actually add an option for obscure use cases like this? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure that pretty much the whole Windows API is written like this to work around developers' buggy code

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[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

That's the point. The new copilot key emulates shift+win+f23 because they expect that nobody is using f23

[-] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 12 points 2 months ago

That's bullshit. F13-F36 should be reserved for user macros and remain unused by default in user applications.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 19 points 2 months ago

I thought I was somewhat of a power user, but this is the first time I've ever heard of there being function keys beyond F12 :C

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[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 14 points 2 months ago

OK, now I'm just going to try Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+Every-Key-On-The-Keyboard just to see what happens.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I bet there's a registry key that let's you remap P to Pornhub.

[-] Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Alright, who's gonna dig for the key?

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[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I've got Office 365 installed so the shortcuts open those local applications.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

I'm a huge keyboard shortcut guy. But any more than two modifiers can fuck right off. I wanna launch a program, not play carpel tunnel Twister.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's the point, they are this long on purpose so that you never actually press them by accident, and never conflict with any other shortcut someone would use. They exist for custom keyboards that have an "Office" or "Copilot" button. The special key then sends that shortcut.

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[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 months ago

No one:

Absolutely no one ever:

Microsoft: Hey guys....

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[-] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

I don't usually want to open LinkedIn at all. I wonder if they paid MS for the shortcut?

[-] Pantrygheist@programming.dev 93 points 2 months ago

LinkedIn is owned by MS

[-] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Ah, thanks. I missed that. I guess I need to update my "all these brands are really all owned by XYZ" chart again.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago

Wait a few more years, it’ll just be one single circle.

Sooo hope the Justice Department’s new antitrust push proves this joke wrong!

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

And that circle? Taco Bell.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s part of the registry and cannot be reprogrammed without essentially bricking your system

[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 months ago

Extrapolating from this point, I can only imagine the kind of fun things Windows 11 will have in store for us, when they finally force everyone to switch over to it.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 21 points 2 months ago

To Linux you say?

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[-] kayaven@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

There's a way to disable the shortcuts so they can be remapped: https://github.com/midrare/hyperenable

It basically runs and creates the same global hotkeys as explorer.exe would for those Office ones, but it does so right before explorer launches so it can't assign them anymore. After that, the program disables them so you're free to use the hotkeys for other programs.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago

Anyone have any idea why it was programmed in?

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 52 points 2 months ago

Ctrl + shift + alt + win + any letter opens office apps

W - Word
P - PowerPoint
T - teams
N - OneNote

...etc

LinkedIn just happens to be L. If there isn't an app installed (or available) it'll just open in your browser.

I actually found these a few years ago when I decided to press every modifier letter combination. Back then it wasn't documented anywhere but I've seen it pop up a few times in the last month so somebody must've found and shared it recently

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[-] nycki@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I believe this is so they can make keyboards with a fancy "LinkedIn Button" on them, just like they're trying to do now with Copilot.

[-] Strobelt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

My guess is it caters to "windows power users" that like to be the ones to point these obscure shortcuts to other people.

[-] MenigPyle@feddit.dk 6 points 2 months ago

Microsoft owns part of LinkedIn.

Vertical integration.

Just be haply you don't have a Facebook button. Yet.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Probably done to support a meta-key on a keyboard where a manufacturer wanted a dedicated LinkedIn button.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

That, and Linkedin is wholly owned by Microsoft.

[-] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago

granted. it now sets edge as default and then opens linkedin in your default browser.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 18 points 2 months ago

You guys never ragequit a game by slamming your hand into the keyboard? Opens up almost every Office program at the same time, it's glorious!

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[-] FLX@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

WHAT THE FUCK

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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

WORKS IN FIREFOX GUYS

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Are you fucking kidding me? This is the best most useless information I've learned in a while

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Default browser?

You mean Edge?

[-] GTG3000@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

[-] molten_iron@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

wtf

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