Image: Intel 80486DX2 processor die, 12×6.75 mm, in its packaging (Wikipedia)

Image: Intel 80486DX2 processor die, 12×6.75 mm, in its packaging (Wikipedia)
If only DEAD people understand hexadecimal, how many people understand hexadecimal?  (soo‘ㄥs :ɹǝʍsuɐ)

Sunday 20 February 2011

Switching a spreadsheet between results and formulae view

Did you know that there was a keyboard shortcut for performing this switch? This is particularly useful when you need to prepare screenshot evidence of what you have built for coursework.

In both Open Office Calc and Microsoft Excel, you simply type Ctrl+`

But what do you call the ` key? and where do you find it? Its official name is the backquote but, unsure what it was called, at least one school in Cambridgeshire in the UK has given it the name "Gary".  Perhaps you could give it a local name, too.

It looks like this:

On this keyboard, it is at the left-hand end of the second row down:

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