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How to Use Safe Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows Applications

A lot of these old applications, they're using the function keys. These are things that are OS level keyboard shortcuts. So if your Windows app or iOS app or Mac app has been using certain function keys, you're going to straight away have conflicts,. so you can't use them. The same with control. If your app's been using control something, I think you mentioned control F, which brings up the search box in a lot of desktop applications. You shouldn't use control F or anything in your web page, in your web application. Exactly. And finding safe keys to use is challenging. Because it's got to make sense. It's got to feel like it wants to represent

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