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Computer Tips to Assist You

Quick Tips
Keyboard Shortcuts

Computer Quick Tips

Outlook - Quickly go to a date
Instead of scrolling through your calendar, use Ctrl+G and type in the date.

Excel - Quick chart
Highlight information you want to chart including the labels (row and column headers) and key F11. You can then edit the chart in any number of ways. Quick, eh?

Drag & Drop Emails to Document Folder
You can drag an email from your Inbox directly into your Documents folder on your Desktop. It remains in email format but there is a copy outside of Outlook.

Outlook - Switch email signatures
Doyou have more than one signature for your emails? You can create as many as you need for different types of correspondence. Once you have created more than one, you can easily switch between them in your email. Simply right click anywhere in the default signature and you will see a list to choose from. Click the one you want to use.

Did you know you can do almost everything with the keyboard instead of the mouse?

Sometimes reaching for the mouse is distracting and stops the creative flow, or simply slows you down.

Try some of these keyboard shortcuts

MS Outlook – switch views

Ctrl 1 Mail
Ctrl 2 Calendar
Ctrl 3 Contacts
Ctrl 4 Tasks
Ctrl 5 Notes

PowerPoint

F5   Run a slide show
ESC End a slide show
B    Black out a screen while running a slideshow
W   White out a screen while running a slideshow

Internet Explorer

Ctrl + H to view your history

Word

Ctrl + F2 for print preview
ESC to return to document

Excel

Ctrl + Home Go to cell A1 from anywhere in the spreadsheet
Ctrl + End Go to the last cell used

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