The Golden Rules Of Windows

Thursday, April 04, 2019

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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