Google Talk keyboard shortcuts and other tips

[Flaco]

Google Talk Tricks:

• Change the font size - While holding the control key, move the scroll wheel on your mouse either up or down. This trick works while being focused in either the read or write area.
• Insert line breaks - If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.
• Bold Text - To write something bold, you can use an asterisk before and after the word, like *this* .
• Italic Text - To use italics, use an underscore before an after the word, like _this_ .
• Switch windows - Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.
• Invitation Tips - You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this in the options).

[Flaco]

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Ctrl + E - It centralizes the selected text, or the current line.
• Ctrl + R - It justifies to the right the selected text, or the current line.
• Ctrl + L - It justifies to the left the selected text, or the current line.
• Ctrl + I - The same thing does that Tab.
• Tab - It is giving the area to each of the windows opened by Google Talk.
• Ctrl + Tab - The same thing does that Shift + Tab .
• Shift + Tab - The same thing does that Tab but in reverse.
• Ctrl + Shift + L -Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers
• Ctrl + 1 (KeyPad) - It does a simple space between the lines.
• Ctrl + 2 (KeyPad) - It does a double space between the lines.
• Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - A space does 1.5 between the lines.
• Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
• Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
• Ctrl + F4 - It closes the current window.
• Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
• Alt + Esc - It Minimize all the windows.
• Windows + ESC - Open Google Talk (if it's minimized, or in the tray)
• F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
• F11 - It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
• F12 - It cancels a telephonic call.
• Esc - It closes the current window.