[lbo-talk] technical question

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Tue May 21 16:21:49 PDT 2013


not much of a gmail user, but the standard shortcut keys might help. i was thinking you knew them since you are such a power excel user, but just in case you don't know them.

instead of scrolling while holding down the mouse and manual scanning down each line with the mouse, use the keyboard.

1. place your cursor where you want to start cutting 2. press shift 3. press the down arrow to select all the lines. the lines will highlight, one by one, as you move down the page

OR

1. place your cursor where you want to start cutting 2. use your mouse only to navigate to the place where you want to end the cut 3. click shift and place your mouse where you want to cut 4. the area you want to cut should now be highlighted.

At 05:15 PM 5/21/2013, Wojtek S wrote:
>I am trying to be a good lbo-ster and delete the trails from emails to
>which I respond. However, Gmail made this task rather difficult. First I
>need to click on three dots at the bottom of the email to show the quoted
>text. Then comes the selection. If the quoted text is short - no problem,
>but if it is long, then scrolling down to the end if fucking painfully slow
>- it takes forever. An alternative is to keep selecting and deleting only
>the visible parts of the text until the whole thing is deleted. If this is
>the best that this self-styled vanguard of technological progress can come
>up with, then fuck their "progress." Is there a better way of dealing with
>it, other than going back to M$ Outlook?
>
>--
>Wojtek
>
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