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By Mark Firehammer, on March 3rd, 2010 I’m a big advocate of using keyboard shortcuts to get more work done faster! After all we have 10 fingers, so why just use one on your mouse while the other nine slack off! Here’s a great article to give you a bunch of shortcuts for Microsoft Word!
Your users probably have a few favorite keyboard shortcuts for formatting text – like Ctrl + B for applying boldface, Ctrl + I for applying italics, Ctrl + U for underlining, and maybe Ctrl + L to left-align text. But Word provides buttons for those tasks on the Formatting toolbar, so any efficiency gains are kind of a toss-up.
The real convenience lies in knowing some more obscure keyboard shortcuts – ones that have no default button equivalents and that can save users from having to scrounge around dialog boxes looking for the appropriate options. Here are some shortcuts that are especially . . . → Read More: 10+ lesser-known shortcuts for formatting Word text | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com
By Mark Firehammer, on November 8th, 2008 Pay attention, because this one is like lightning! No matter how many documents and programs you have open on your Windows computer, you can get to the desktop in a quinstant, and that is a second faster than an instant! Just hold down the Start Key and press the letter “M”
Press and Hold Start Then press “M”
Boom! Hello desktop!
By Mark Firehammer, on November 7th, 2008 Drop That MouseWhenever you’re filling out a form on a website or a piece of software like Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft access database or any other database for that matter, instead of using the mouse to move from field to field, simply press the Tab key. To go backwards through a form, hold down the shift key and press tab. This is a universal Windows shortcut combination
Exercise: Go to Yahoo.com and repeatedly press the TAB key. Pay attention to what happens on the screen. When you first land on the page the cursor will be in the search field at the top, and with each press of the Tab Key a dotted outline will move through the page to every element that is hyperlinked, until it runs out of hyperlinks and comes back around to the beginning again. Press the hold Shift and press Tab and the same thing happens . . . → Read More: Moving through Forms
By Mark Firehammer, on November 6th, 2008 Do you use your mouse to do most tasks in a Windows environment? If you answered yes to that question I guarantee I can cut the amount of time that it takes for you to write e-mails, browse the Internet, and create and edit documents in Microsoft office programs, by about half! I’ve taught hundreds of people in individual and group settings how to break the mouse barrier! Precision mousing is a waste of your precious time, and I bet that you have complained one more than one occasion that you do not have enough time! Don’t feel bad, were altogether on that! We have entirely too much going on our lives and were consistently bombarded with information. Why not learn how to process that information more efficiently. it all starts with this simple phrase.
“There Are Alternate Ways to Control Your Computer” Oh sure, I can hear many people . . . → Read More: Breaking the Mouse Barrier
By Mark Firehammer, on November 6th, 2008 That Is Refreshing Remember, Breaking the Mouse Barrier is about saving time by reaching for the keyboard instead of the mouse.
Scenario: You are surfing the Internet using either Internet Explorer or Firefox, perhaps you’re checking your webmail, or you’re looking at a page and an image did not load properly. These are two situations where you would want to refresh the page. What do you do?
Reach for the mouse and precisely target the refresh icon? Or press a single key? Fast like a cobras strike!
If you want to break the mouse barrier, you will simply press the F5 key. You can’t miss it, it’s the top row of your keyboard between F4 and F6! It’s Fast and it’s Furious by a factor of 5 that’s why it’s called F5!
Surf on brothers and sisters. And let me know if you need anything!
. . . → Read More: That’s Refreshing!
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