Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day

In a lot of applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word and many more), Ctrl+K lets you insert a hyperlink. Now, links may not be so useful in a printed document, but for online documents, try it out.

Start by moving your cursor to the location where you want a hyperlink to appear. Then press Ctrl+K and the “Insert Hyperlink” dialog box appears. Now, enter a complete URL (such as http://www.tivo.com) in the Address input (where your cursor will be by default). If you had no text selected beforehand, then press Alt+T to get to the “Text to display” box and enter in the anchor text (such as “TiVo”). Press Enter, and the text appears as a link.
You can also use a network address to link your document to another one on a hard drive (by entering a URL such as \\my-server\mydirectory\).

Suppose you close a browser window tab in Firefox with Ctrl+W.

Whoops! Wait a second, I wanted to read that!

To re-open it, press Ctrl+Shift+T. Phew!

If you use Thunderbird as your e-mail program, you can label an e-mail you have selected with the number keys.

By default, these keys will apply the label and color listed:

• 1: Important (red)
• 2: Work (yellow)
• 3: Personal (green)
• 4: To Do (blue)
• 5: Later (purple)
• 0: Clear all labels (black)

Well, I said “December” but here we are in January. Time flies when you’ve got a toddler and an infant and a full-time job!

While we won’t be daily for a while (thus making a lie of the “of the Day” portion of the title of this blog), we’ll start back in on some tips.

Good to be back!