Simple Way To Save A Lot Of Mouse Clicks

One of the downsides of actually having a job is that I am forced to work in Windows for a living. I miss the days when I got to work in Unix most of the day.

I regularly use a piece of software for work that uses a tabbed window like this:

The one for work has a lot of text fields that we use for mapping data from one format to another. Each tab has different data fields that need something keyed into them. On a day when I am creating a new translation map, I can easily spend several hours setting up the input side and clicking on each of those tabs hundreds of times.

I really hate any data entry type of thing where you have to click and then type for a couple seconds and then click again.

While doing this the other day, I accidentally found out that you can click Ctrl+Tab and it will cycle through the tabs. Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycles backwards.

I’m disappointed that I never stumbled upon something this simple that can have such a huge impact on my quality of work life. My doctor is going to be disappointed that I will be able to postpone any carpal tunnel surgeries for a couple years.