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The Ultimate Quake Live Guide
To open the console in QuakeLive hold CTR+ALT and then hit the tilde key (above tab).
The tab key auto-completes commands, map names and (if disconnected) demo names like a unix terminal.
Text copied into the windows clipboard can be pasted into the console with ctrl+v
type
\com_allowconsole 1
and then hit enter, and you will not need to hold ctrl+alt any more to toggle the console with tilde.
All console commands should be prefixed with \ if you forget just hit tab and it will auto-complete it for you.