Technology Tips

Top Tech Tips

 

C is for CAPS letters

Typing Shift F3 - turns all your text into CAPITALS, Capitals or capitals - really handy for report writing in Word or Powerpoint

 

C is also CTRLing the Universe!

Lots of applications will accept CTRL+C to copy, CTRL+V to paste, CTRL+X to delete.

 

L is for Locking  your desktop instantly

Press Windows button+L on your keyboard

 

M is for Maximising your contacts

Quickly dial a phone number for a contact Right-click the contact, and then on the shortcut menu, click Call Contact.

Add a new contact from an e-mail message Open the message. In the From field, right-click the name you want to make into a contact. On the shortcut menu, click Add to Outlook Contacts.

Create a task related to a contact Click the contact, click the Actions menu, and then click New Task for Contact.

 

P is for Print Screen – quickly show someone a page from your computer

Having trouble with an application/web page on your PC? Or need to show some one a page from a website? Type Shift Print Screen - to send a visual of the problem to your IT dept or your IT Solutions Provider.

 

R is for Repeat your last action – quickly and easily

F4 repeats your last action. This is really useful for formatting etc in Excel or Word.

 

R is also for Renaming multiple files

On Windows 7, when renaming files in the Windows Explorer, if you hit the Tab key, it keeps the new name you've given the item and goes to renaming the next item, similar to how it works in Internet browsers. In XP (I don't know about Vista), it just inserted the tab character. If you have to manually rename a lot of files, it can make it go a lot faster

 

Another way…

 

Select all the files you want to rename, press F2, or right-click on one of the files and select Rename. All of your file selections will disappear except for one, Type in your new name and click Enter. That's it! One file will be now be named "renametext" and the others will have sequential numbers in the format of "renametext (1)" and "renametext (2)" and so on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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