Tips & Tricks

Power Saving Tips

Shortcuts etc...

Productivity Tricks: Notice how some people can just click through programs really fast or switch back and forth between programs really quickly?

1. Once you have two or more programs opened you can switch between them very quickly by holding down the ‘alt’ key and pressing the ‘tab’ key. Give it a try and see how it works.

Screen Capture: Ever get that annoying message that might be an error but you just don't know what to do with it?  Or even worse, you want to tell the Technology Department but you didn't get all the error code numbers? 

Here's a trick that will help you with this, as well as other tasks like creating manuals and procedures.

1.  When that message pops up (or when you have the desired window open) press the Alt + PrtSc (print screen) keys.  This action will copy a picture of the box to your notepad.

2.  Next open Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and press Ctrl + V to paste the image into the Word document.

3.  Now you can save it or forward it to the Support Desk for review (if it's an error message).

Hope this helps...

Private Email Lists: Ever receive an e-mail message that has been sent to a list of people?  Did you realize that now all of those people now have your email address?  If you forward one of those e-mails you are then sending every email address on the list to someone else.  Here's a trick to protect the privacy of those folks that are in your e-mail address book:

1. Use the BCC --- When sending an e-mail that will be distributed to multiple recipients, use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) section rather than the TO section when inserting the recipient names.

This will allow each recipient to see only their own respective name and none of the others on the list.

Hope this helps...

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