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	<title>Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day</title>
	<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts</link>
	<description>Each weekday, a new Windows keystroke that you can use to save time</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ctrl+Backspace: Display active cell in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/07/03/display-active-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you&#8217;ve used the mouse to scroll too far in Excel. You&#8217;re lost. The cells are zooming by at a million miles an hour. You just want to get back to see the cell where your cursor is. Help! Scrolling around to find the active cell will take forever!
Ctrl+Backspace moves the visible area of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suppose you&#8217;ve used the mouse to scroll too far in Excel. You&#8217;re lost. The cells are zooming by at a million miles an hour. You just want to get back to see the cell where your cursor is. Help! Scrolling around to find the active cell will take forever!<br />
Ctrl+Backspace moves the visible area of the spreadsheet back to whereever your cursor is (the so-called active cell).
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		<title>Alt+Page Down, Alt+Page Up: Move left and right one screen in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/07/02/left-right-screen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/07/02/left-right-screen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To move to the right in Excel to see your next group of columns, you could scroll. Or you could press the Right Arrow key a bunch of times.
Or, press Alt+Page Up. You immediately find yourself one screen to the right looking at your next batch of columns.
Conversely, Alt+Page Down moves you to the left.
(Compare [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To move to the right in Excel to see your next group of columns, you could scroll. Or you could press the Right Arrow key a bunch of times.</p>
<p>Or, press Alt+Page Up. You immediately find yourself one screen to the right looking at your next batch of columns.</p>
<p>Conversely, Alt+Page Down moves you to the left.</p>
<p>(Compare to the regular Page Up and Page Down, which you already know moves you up and down a screen.)
</p>
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		<title>Shift+F11: Insert New Worksheet in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/07/01/insert-new-worksheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t click on the Insert menu and then the Worksheet command. Don&#8217;t even press Alt+I, W. Just press Shift+F11 and a brand new worksheet is created for you in Excel.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t click on the Insert menu and then the Worksheet command. Don&#8217;t even press Alt+I, W. Just press Shift+F11 and a brand new worksheet is created for you in Excel.
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		<title>Alt+Shift+F10: Open &#8220;Smart Tag&#8221; menu in Word, Excel &#038; PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/30/smart-tag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/30/smart-tag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re using Excel 2003 or later, from time to time it&#8217;ll point out mistakes in your formulas or other observations by indicating a green triangle in the upper left of the cell, along with an exclamation point in a yellow diamond. The idea is you click on the diamond to see a menu with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you&#8217;re using Excel 2003 or later, from time to time it&#8217;ll point out mistakes in your formulas or other observations by indicating a green triangle in the upper left of the cell, along with an exclamation point in a yellow diamond. The idea is you click on the diamond to see a menu with some options from Excel.</p>
<p>Clicking? Moi? Nope, instead of reaching for the mouse, just press Alt+Shift+F10, and the menu then opens. (Just have your cursor somewhere in the cell with the Smart Tag.) Once the menu appears, it&#8217;s just a regular menu, and you can use the Up Arrow or Down Arrow plus Enter to select an item, or press Esc to cancel.</p>
<p>Similarly, in Microsoft Word, sometimes you&#8217;ll be typing and Word will make a correction and show a blue double underline. Move your mouse to the underline and a yellow lightning bolt appears. Click on the lightning bolt and you&#8217;ll have some menu items to control the behavior of whatever automatic correction Word made.</p>
<p>Again, clicking? No need. The same Alt+Shift+F10 will open the Smart Tag menu in Word. Just have your cursor somewhere in the word with the double blue underline.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+E, Alt+Down Arrow: Choose Firefox search engine</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/27/ctrle-altdown-arrow-choose-firefox-search-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/27/ctrle-altdown-arrow-choose-firefox-search-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the last of our Firefox tips, in celebration of the release of Firefox 3 last week.
We previously covered Ctrl+K to jump to the search box in the upper right. If you happen to use the Google toolbar, Ctrl+K has a different function, so some of you may prefer to use Ctrl+E to jump up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the last of our Firefox tips, in celebration of <a href="http://getfirefox.com/">the release of Firefox 3</a> last week.</p>
<p>We previously covered <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/03/search-firefox/">Ctrl+K</a> to jump to the search box in the upper right. If you happen to use the Google toolbar, Ctrl+K has a different function, so some of you may prefer to use Ctrl+E to jump up there instead.</p>
<p>Now for the next step! Once your cursor is up there in the search box, type in a search term but do NOT press Enter to search yet.</p>
<p>Instead, you can press Alt+Down Arrow to pull down the list of search engines available. Then you can use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow to select a search engine, and then press Enter to search using that engine.</p>
<p>Firefox will remember your choice until the next time you change the engine using that same Alt+Down Arrow pulldown menu.<br />
You can always use the Manage Search Engines menu item to edit your list of search engines. To add more, just press Tab Tab Enter from the Manage Search Engine List dialog box in order to hit that &#8220;Get more search engines&#8230;&#8221; link.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+R (or Ctrl+F5): Reload page, overriding cache</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/25/force-reload/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/25/force-reload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you reload a page, you get the same old crufty stuff even though you KNOW there&#8217;s an update.
Why is that? Well, when you load a page, your browser stores a local copy on your computer &#8212; this is called a cache. Whenever you visit a page, Firefox asks the remote server if there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes when you reload a page, you get the same old crufty stuff even though you KNOW there&#8217;s an update.</p>
<p>Why is that? Well, when you load a page, your browser stores a local copy on your computer &#8212; this is called a <em>cache</em>. Whenever you visit a page, Firefox asks the remote server if there&#8217;s any update to the version that&#8217;s saved locally. If the host says yes, then Firefox fetches the updated page. If the last updated date is not after the date of the one you have locally, then Firefox displays the version from your cache instead, saving bandwidth and time.</p>
<p>Occasionally this screws up (usually because the host is returning bad info about when the page was updated). So if you just KNOW there&#8217;s an update, you need to reload the page, overriding the cache.</p>
<p>To do that, press Ctrl+Shift+R, or Ctrl+F5 &#8212; this is sometimes called a &#8220;forced reload.&#8221;
</p>
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		<title>Alt+Enter: Open selected address bar site in a new tab (or Ctrl+Alt+Enter to auto-complete in new tab)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/23/open-url-in-new-tab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/23/open-url-in-new-tab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You already know you can press Ctrl+T to open a new tab in Firefox, and then press Ctrl+L to change focus to the location bar, where you can start typing the URL and press Enter to go to the page.
Try out this sequence instead &#8212; you might find it more intuitive.

Press Ctrl+L (or Alt+D or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You already know you can press Ctrl+T to open a new tab in Firefox, and then press Ctrl+L to change focus to the location bar, where you can start typing the URL and press Enter to go to the page.</p>
<p>Try out this sequence instead &#8212; you might find it more intuitive.</p>
<ol>
<li>Press Ctrl+L (or Alt+D or F6) to move your focus to the address bar.</li>
<li>Start typing the URL. At this point, Firefox&#8217;s address completion kicks in, and you can use the up and down arrow keys to select the site you want to visit.</li>
<li>Instead of pressing Enter to open the site, or Ctrl+Enter to turn &#8220;tivo&#8221; into &#8220;http://www.tivo.com,&#8221; try pressing Alt+Enter. The site you have selected automatically opens in a new tab. Whatever page you were viewing stays in its own tab.</li>
</ol>
<p>Even faster, you can also press Ctrl+Alt+Enter to automatically complete the URL in a new tab. So:</p>
<ol>
<li>Press Ctrl+L to move your focus to the address bar.</li>
<li>Type a word for the domain name, such as google.</li>
<li>Press Ctrl+Alt+Enter. The domain name is turned into a full URL (so &#8220;google&#8221; becomes &#8220;http://www.google.com/&#8221;) and a new tab is opened with that page.</li>
</ol>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+Del: Clear all private data in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/20/clear-private-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/20/clear-private-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/20/clear-private-data/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you&#8217;re in a library or using someone else&#8217;s computer. You don&#8217;t want them to see your form submissions or list of visited sites, right? That&#8217;s your business, not theirs.
Ctrl+Shift+Del and a dialog box appears, with some default items to clear checked, and others not. (Remember you can use Tab and Space to change the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suppose you&#8217;re in a library or using someone else&#8217;s computer. You don&#8217;t want them to see your form submissions or list of visited sites, right? That&#8217;s your business, not theirs.</p>
<p>Ctrl+Shift+Del and a dialog box appears, with some default items to clear checked, and others not. (Remember you can use Tab and Space to change the checkmarks.) Once you press Enter, you&#8217;ve just wiped out all of your history (and theirs too, for that matter). Bookmarks do stay.</p>
<p>(Under Tools | Options, there&#8217;s a Privacy tab. Sadly you have to use the mouse to select this tab. Once there, you can select the &#8220;Always clear my private data when I close Firefox&#8221; option, if you find yourself clearing private data frequently. This option is off by default.)
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		<title>Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc.: Switch tabs in Firefox &#8212; Ctrl+9 for last tab</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/19/switch-tabs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/19/switch-tabs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Firefox, once you&#8217;ve opened a new tab (with Ctrl+T, remember?), you already knew you could use Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down to switch tabs.
But you can also use Ctrl followed by a number key.

Ctrl+1: Switch to the first tab
Ctrl+2: Switch to the second tab
Ctrl+3: Switch to the third tab
Ctrl+4: Switch to the fourth tab
Ctrl+5: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Firefox, once you&#8217;ve opened a new tab (with <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/04/tab-firefox/">Ctrl+T</a>, remember?), you already knew you could use <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/05/ctrlpage-up-and-ctrlpage-down-change-tabs/">Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down to switch tabs</a>.</p>
<p>But you can also use Ctrl followed by a number key.</p>
<ul>
<li>Ctrl+1: Switch to the first tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+2: Switch to the second tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+3: Switch to the third tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+4: Switch to the fourth tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+5: Switch to the fifth tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+6: Switch to the sixth tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+7: Switch to the seventh tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+8: Switch to the eighth tab</li>
<li>Ctrl+9: Switch to the <strong>LAST</strong> tab</li>
</ul>
<p>No matter how many tabs you have open, Ctrl+9 will switch to the one that&#8217;s on the far right.</p>
<p>(You may wonder: What does Ctrl+0 do? Well, if you&#8217;ve used <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/02/font-size-firefox/">Ctrl+= or Ctrl+- to change the font sizes on a page</a>, Ctrl+0 sets all the font sizes back to the default.)
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+B: Organize Bookmarks with Firefox 3</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/18/organize-bookmarks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/18/organize-bookmarks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/18/ctrlshiftb-organize-bookmarks-with-firefox-3/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3, released officially yesterday, has a brand new keyboard shortcut that lets you organize your bookmarks, Ctrl+Shift+B.
(In previous versions of Firefox, to use this menu item, you&#8217;d have to hit Alt+B to open the Bookmarks menu, then press the Down Arrow key until Organize Bookmarks was highlighted, then press Enter.)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox 3</a>, released officially yesterday, has a brand new keyboard shortcut that lets you organize your bookmarks, Ctrl+Shift+B.</p>
<p>(In previous versions of Firefox, to use this menu item, you&#8217;d have to hit Alt+B to open the Bookmarks menu, then press the Down Arrow key until Organize Bookmarks was highlighted, then press Enter.)
</p>
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		<title>Revealing the underlined shortcut: Configuring Windows XP to be more keyboard-friendly</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/14/revealing-the-underlined-shortcut-configuring-windows-xp-to-be-more-keyboard-friendly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/14/revealing-the-underlined-shortcut-configuring-windows-xp-to-be-more-keyboard-friendly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/06/14/revealing-the-underlined-shortcut-configuring-windows-xp-to-be-more-keyboard-friendly/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just recently I received a new laptop, and found that by default, the keyboard shortcuts in menus weren&#8217;t displayed.
This is the enemy of all keyboard users: An option hidden away in the Display settings that hides the underlined letters telling you what keys you can press. Boo on Microsoft for making this a default.
To enable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just recently I received a new laptop, and found that by default, the keyboard shortcuts in menus weren&#8217;t displayed.</p>
<p>This is the enemy of all keyboard users: An option hidden away in the Display settings that hides the underlined letters telling you what keys you can press. Boo on Microsoft for making this a default.</p>
<p>To enable keyboard shortcut underlining, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Hit Windows+D to show the desktop.</li>
<li>Press Shift+F10 to show the shortcut menu.</li>
<li>Press up arrow to get to the bottom menu item, Properties, then press Enter to select it.</li>
<li>Press Ctrl+Tab to change tabs three times, until the Appearance tab appears.</li>
<li>Press Alt+E to hit the Effects button.</li>
<li>Deselect the last item by pressing H.</li>
<li>Press Enter twice to close the dialog boxes.</li>
</ol>
<p><img width="414" height="316" alt="[Screen shot of the Advanced Effects dialog box, with the 'Hide underline' option]" id="image154" src="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/content/hideunderline.gif" />
</p>
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		<title>F6: Cycle through panes (Firefox, Outlook, PowerPoint)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/18/cycle-pane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/18/cycle-pane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Outlook</category>

		<category>Firefox</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you have an application screen with multiple sections, try pressing F6 to cycle between them.
In Firefox, it toggles between the address bar and the web page &#8212; unless you&#8217;re viewing a web page with frames, in which case each press of F6 moves you to a different frame.
In Outlook, you can switch between the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever you have an application screen with multiple sections, try pressing F6 to cycle between them.</p>
<p>In Firefox, it toggles between the address bar and the web page &#8212; unless you&#8217;re viewing a web page with frames, in which case each press of F6 moves you to a different frame.<br />
In Outlook, you can switch between the header of an e-mail (where you type the To address, Subject, etc.) and the body of the e-mail.</p>
<p>In PowerPoint, you&#8217;ll move between the slide, the notes, and the outline on the left.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+H: History window (Firefox, Internet Explorer)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/17/history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/17/history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Explorer</category>

		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/17/history/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever think to yourself, &#8220;What was that web site I visited yesterday? Something about shoes?&#8221;
In your browser, press Ctrl+H. A side panel appears, showing a history of sites you&#8217;ve visited.
In Firefox, the cursor appears in a Search box by default, so type in &#8220;shoes&#8221; and press Enter, and you&#8217;ll find sites with that word in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever think to yourself, &#8220;What was that web site I visited yesterday? Something about shoes?&#8221;</p>
<p>In your browser, press Ctrl+H. A side panel appears, showing a history of sites you&#8217;ve visited.</p>
<p>In Firefox, the cursor appears in a Search box by default, so type in &#8220;shoes&#8221; and press Enter, and you&#8217;ll find sites with that word in the title or URL.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a Vie<u>w</u> button. Press Alt+W, then Spacebar, and you can organize your browser history window by site, date, most visited, or most recently visited instead of the default that shows a combination of date and site.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re done with the history sidebar, press Ctrl+H to toggle it off.
</p>
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		<title>F11: Full screen mode (Firefox)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/16/full-screen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/16/full-screen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Firefox, tap the F11 key and all of a sudden, plenty of screen clutter disappears, allowing you to view the current web page without as much distraction.
Sure, there&#8217;s the tool bar (and possibly the tab bar, if more than one tab is open) on the top, and the find bar (if open) on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Firefox, tap the F11 key and all of a sudden, plenty of screen clutter disappears, allowing you to view the current web page without as much distraction.</p>
<p>Sure, there&#8217;s the tool bar (and possibly the tab bar, if more than one tab is open) on the top, and the find bar (if open) on the bottom. But other than that, just you and your web page.</p>
<p>Hit F11 again to turn full-screen mode off.
</p>
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		<title>Shift+Delete: Remove form auto-complete entry (Firefox)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/15/remove-auto-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/15/remove-auto-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever have an annoying situation in Firefox where you start filling out a form, but when it helpfully tries to finish your typing for you with some personal information, you see a typo in there? And you think, &#8220;Woah, that&#8217;s wrong &#8212; I don&#8217;t want that text ever popping up again.&#8221;
Well, here&#8217;s how to fix [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever have an annoying situation in Firefox where you start filling out a form, but when it helpfully tries to finish your typing for you with some personal information, you see a typo in there? And you think, &#8220;Woah, that&#8217;s wrong &#8212; I don&#8217;t want that text ever popping up again.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, here&#8217;s how to fix it.</p>
<p>Next time you see the auto-complete entry appear, try this: press the down arrow to highlight the entry you want to remove, then press Shift+Delete. The entry disappears.</p>
<p>This works in the address bar as well!</p>
<p>Note: The saved text will return if you enter that text again &#8212; so either don&#8217;t make that typo again, or consider disabling Firefox&#8217;s form-fill feature under Tools | Options | Privacy | Remember what I enter in Forms and the search bar.
</p>
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		<title>Spacebar: Change the origin of the selection rectangle when doing a screen capture (Mac)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/14/selection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/14/selection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Mac</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I already published a Windows shortcut today, here&#8217;s a bonus for you Mac users, with thanks again to Kevin Fox.
Suppose you&#8217;re using a Mac and you&#8217;re creating a selection rectangle in Photoshop. Normally, moving the mouse changes the size of the selection rectangle. If you hold down the Spacebar, suddenly you&#8217;re now moving the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I already published a Windows shortcut today, here&#8217;s a bonus for you Mac users, with thanks again to Kevin Fox.</p>
<p>Suppose you&#8217;re using a Mac and you&#8217;re creating a selection rectangle in Photoshop. Normally, moving the mouse changes the size of the selection rectangle. If you hold down the Spacebar, suddenly you&#8217;re now moving the origin of the rectangle instead. (Practice this a bit to get the hang of it.)</p>
<p>Many of you are old hands at Photoshop and already knew that one. (You may have known it works in Windows versions of Photoshop as well, plus many other image editors on both platforms.)</p>
<p>Okay, so here&#8217;s the new bit: If you use OS X, as of 10.5, when you press Command+Shift+4 to capture part of the screen, you can now use the Spacebar trick to switch between resizing and changing the origin point.
</p>
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		<title>Alt+Enter: Save link (Firefox)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/14/save-link/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/04/14/save-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you&#8217;re using Firefox, and you end up on a web page with a bunch of files you want to save. You can right-click on each link, choose &#8220;Save Link As&#8230;&#8221; then click OK, then repeat over and over. What a pain!
Here&#8217;s a faster way.
First, press Tab until you get to the link you want [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suppose you&#8217;re using Firefox, and you end up on a web page with a bunch of files you want to save. You can right-click on each link, choose &#8220;Save Link As&#8230;&#8221; then click OK, then repeat over and over. What a pain!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a faster way.</p>
<p>First, press Tab until you get to the link you want to save. (You may have to press Tab quite a few times, depending on the page. One hint is to first scroll down so that the link you want to save is at the top of the page. Or, click on the link and drag down a little bit before letting go off the mouse button, which will select the link without clicking on it.)</p>
<p>Once the link you want to save is highlighted, press Alt+Enter and the Downloads window appears, showing your progress as file is saved.</p>
<p>Now press <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/07/switch-applications/">Alt+Tab</a> to switch back from the Downloads window to your main browser window, or close the Downloads window (by pressing <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/06/close-window/">Ctrl+W</a> or <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/27/close/">Alt+F4</a>).</p>
<p>Now you can repeat: Tab, Alt+Enter, Alt+F4, Tab, Alt+Enter, Alt+F4 &#8212; and keep repeating until all the files are saved.</p>
<p>(By the way, in Internet Explorer, pressing Alt+Enter just does the same thing as Enter &#8212; it follows the link as if you clicked on it. In many other applications, we saw previously that <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/01/properties/">Alt+Enter</a> opens the Properties menu.)
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		<title>Shift+Option+Volume Up/Down keys: Fine volume control on a Mac</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/03/31/mac-volume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/03/31/mac-volume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Mac</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So lately the &#8220;&#8230;of the Day&#8221; portion of this blog&#8217;s title has been a big lie. I figure, why not make the &#8220;Windows&#8221; part a lie too? My friend Kevin &#8220;Fury&#8221; Fox just sent me this tip for Mac users:
If you hold down Shift and Option while using the keyboard volume keys, you can increase [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So lately the &#8220;&#8230;of the Day&#8221; portion of this blog&#8217;s title has been a big lie. I figure, why not make the &#8220;Windows&#8221; part a lie too? My friend <a href="http://www.fury.com/">Kevin &#8220;Fury&#8221; Fox</a> just sent me this tip for Mac users:</p>
<p>If you hold down Shift and Option while using the keyboard volume keys, you can increase or decrease the volume in quarter steps.</p>
<p>Normally there are 17 levels of volume. If you use Shift+Option, you can get 64 levels of volume &#8212; great for when you want something just a little bit louder or softer.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: I don&#8217;t have a Mac, and haven&#8217;t used one in 10 years, so I have no personal experience with this.
</p>
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		<title>Arrow keys, +, -: Pan, zoom in, zoom out in Google maps</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/03/17/arrow-keys-pan-zoom-in-zoom-out-in-google-maps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/03/17/arrow-keys-pan-zoom-in-zoom-out-in-google-maps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>web</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When using Google maps, once you click in the map region, you can use the following keyboard controls:
Arrow keys: Move the map up, down, left or right.
+ key: Zoom in (you can use = instead of + too)
- key: Zoom out
Makes a nice alternative to dragging sometimes!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When using <a href="http://www.google.com/maps/">Google maps</a>, once you click in the map region, you can use the following keyboard controls:</p>
<p>Arrow keys: Move the map up, down, left or right.</p>
<p>+ key: Zoom in (you can use = instead of + too)<br />
- key: Zoom out</p>
<p>Makes a nice alternative to dragging sometimes!
</p>
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		<title>Shift+F1: What is this?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/02/29/what-is-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/02/29/what-is-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Applications</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Major applications support Shift+F1 to let you know what a particular part of the screen is about. Hit Shift+F1 and your point turns into an arrow with a question mark (presuming your application supports this feature). Then click on something you want to know about, and some contextual help will appear.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Major applications support Shift+F1 to let you know what a particular part of the screen is about. Hit Shift+F1 and your point turns into an arrow with a question mark (presuming your application supports this feature). Then click on something you want to know about, and some contextual help will appear.
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		<title>One key to get to your favorite web site</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/02/14/one-key-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/02/14/one-key-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>custom</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve covered custom keyboard shortcuts before, but today I&#8217;m going to focus on how to call up your favorite web site with just one keystroke. We&#8217;ll review some previously covered keyboard shortcuts along the way.

Minimize everything and show the Desktop with Windows+D. The Desktop appears.
Call up the shortcut menu with Shift+F10. A shortcut menu appears. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve covered <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/category/custom/">custom</a> keyboard shortcuts before, but today I&#8217;m going to focus on how to call up your favorite web site with just one keystroke. We&#8217;ll review some previously covered keyboard shortcuts along the way.</p>
<ol>
<li>Minimize everything and <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/14/show-desktop/">show the Desktop</a> with Windows+D. The Desktop appears.</li>
<li>Call up the <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/01/shortcut-menu/">shortcut menu</a> with Shift+F10. A shortcut menu appears. (This won&#8217;t work if you have a desktop item selected. Another way to do this step is to just right-click on an empty part of the desktop.)</li>
<li>Use the arrow keys and Enter to select the New command, or press the W key to select Ne<u>w</u> (since the w is underlined, that&#8217;s the shortcut key). A sub-menu appears.</li>
<li>Select &#8220;Shortcut&#8221; by using the down arrow and Enter. The Create Shortcut dialog box appears.</li>
<li>Enter in the URL for your favorite web site. Include the http:// part, so for example, enter in http://www.tivo.com/ if you want to visit TiVo.com. Press Alt+N to click the Next button. The &#8220;Select a Title for the Program&#8221; screen appears.</li>
<li>Type in a title for this shortcut (it doesn&#8217;t really matter what you type). For example, you could type &#8220;TiVo&#8221; if you entered tivo.com. Then press Enter to Finish. The shortcut appears on the desktop.</li>
<li>Press the first letter of the title you just entered. You may have to hit that letter more than once if you have multiple items on your Desktop all named with the same first letter. Eventually your item is selected.</li>
<li>Press Alt+Enter to get the <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/01/properties/">Properties menu</a> for this item.</li>
<li>Press Tab to select the Shortcut Key text box. Enter in a keystroke you&#8217;d like to use to call up this item. For TiVo, for example, you might enter Ctrl+Alt+T. Your keystroke must use either Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift, or Shift+Alt.</li>
<li>Press Enter to finish creating the shortcut to your favorite web site with your custom shortcut key.</li>
</ol>
<p>Try it! Press your custom keystroke and notice how a web browser appears and your web page is loaded.</p>
<p>Now write down your new shortcut on a sticky note so you don&#8217;t forget and so you get in the habit of using it!</p>
<p>Note: If you create more than one shortcut with the same keystroke, the first shortcut created has priority.
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		<title>&#8230;of the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/02/14/of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/02/14/of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>general</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four-month-olds are pretty challenging, and there&#8217;s little free time right now, so for a while longer we&#8217;re going to keep this as a &#8220;Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Week&#8221; blog. Sorry for the inconvenience, and I do aim to return to daily comments when I can.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Four-month-olds are pretty challenging, and there&#8217;s little free time right now, so for a while longer we&#8217;re going to keep this as a &#8220;Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Week&#8221; blog. Sorry for the inconvenience, and I do aim to return to daily comments when I can.
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		<title>Ctrl+K: Hyperlink</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/31/hyperlink/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/31/hyperlink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Applications</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Insert [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>Start by moving your cursor to the location where you want a hyperlink to appear. Then press Ctrl+K and the &#8220;Insert Hyperlink&#8221; dialog box appears. Now, enter a complete URL (such as <strong>http://www.tivo.com</strong>) 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 &#8220;Text to display&#8221; box and enter in the anchor text (such as &#8220;TiVo&#8221;). Press Enter, and the text appears as a link.<br />
You can also use a network address to link your document to another one on a hard drive (by entering a URL such as <strong>\\my-server\mydirectory\</strong>).
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+T: Reopen closed tab in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/16/reopen-closed-tab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/16/reopen-closed-tab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suppose you close a browser window tab in Firefox with Ctrl+W.</p>
<p>Whoops! Wait a second, I wanted to read that!</p>
<p>To re-open it, press Ctrl+Shift+T. Phew!
</p>
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		<title>1, 2, 3, 4, 5: Labels in Thunderbird (and 0 to clear)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/10/1-2-3-4-5-labels-in-thunderbird-and-0-to-clear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/10/1-2-3-4-5-labels-in-thunderbird-and-0-to-clear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Thunderbird</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you use <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a> as your e-mail program, you can label an e-mail you have selected with the number keys.</p>
<p>By default, these keys will apply the label and color listed:</p>
<ul>
<li>1: Important (red)</li>
<li>2: Work (yellow)</li>
<li>3: Personal (green)</li>
<li>4: To Do (blue)</li>
<li>5: Later (purple)</li>
<li>0: Clear all labels (black)</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Gearing back up&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/10/gearing-back-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2008/01/10/gearing-back-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>general</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I said &#8220;December&#8221; but here we are in January. Time flies when you&#8217;ve got a toddler and an infant and a full-time job!
While we won&#8217;t be daily for a while (thus making a lie of the &#8220;of the Day&#8221; portion of the title of this blog), we&#8217;ll start back in on some tips.
Good to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I said &#8220;December&#8221; but here we are in January. Time flies when you&#8217;ve got a toddler and an infant and a full-time job!</p>
<p>While we won&#8217;t be daily for a while (thus making a lie of the &#8220;of the Day&#8221; portion of the title of this blog), we&#8217;ll start back in on some tips.</p>
<p>Good to be back!
</p>
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		<title>Still on paternity leave&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/11/19/still-on-paternity-leave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/11/19/still-on-paternity-leave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>general</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t forgotten about this site, but with a two month old baby, things are still very hectic. I do plan to return to writing daily keyboard shortcuts starting in December, so please check back then.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t forgotten about this site, but with a two month old baby, things are still very hectic. I do plan to return to writing daily keyboard shortcuts starting in December, so please check back then.
</p>
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		<title>Off for paternity leave!</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/18/off-for-paternity-leave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/18/off-for-paternity-leave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>general</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be taking a break from daily tips for a while due to a paternity leave. In the meantime, please leave keyboard shortcut requests here.
What tasks do you handle all the time that are a pain with the mouse? What are your own best productivity tips involving the keyboard?

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ll be taking a break from daily tips for a while due to a paternity leave. In the meantime, please leave keyboard shortcut requests here.</p>
<p>What tasks do you handle all the time that are a pain with the mouse? What are your own best productivity tips involving the keyboard?
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		<title>!: Mark as Spam in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/12/spam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/12/spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, there&#8217;s no escaping spam. But at least you can make it easier to deal with. Just press the exclamation mark key (shift+1) and the current conversation is instantly moved to the Spam folder in Gmail. There it will be deleted automatically after 30 days.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sadly, there&#8217;s no escaping spam. But at least you can make it easier to deal with. Just press the exclamation mark key (shift+1) and the current conversation is instantly moved to the Spam folder in Gmail. There it will be deleted automatically after 30 days.
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		<title>M: Mute conversation in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/11/mute-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/11/mute-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a keyboard shortcut for a Gmail function you can&#8217;t really access any other way than by enabling the keyboard.
If you get some mail that&#8217;s annoying but not spam and you don&#8217;t care to read any of the responses to that conversation, just press the &#8220;m&#8221; key. It then mutes the conversation so that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a keyboard shortcut for a Gmail function you can&#8217;t really access any other way than by enabling the keyboard.</p>
<p>If you get some mail that&#8217;s annoying but not spam and you don&#8217;t care to read any of the responses to that conversation, just press the &#8220;m&#8221; key. It then mutes the conversation so that it&#8217;s archived, AND, any future messages that arrive in that conversation are automatically archived, never sullying your inbox. Handy!
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		<title>Y: Archive in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/10/archive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/10/archive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To move the current message conversation into the Archive, just press the &#8220;y&#8221; key.
If you&#8217;re in the &#8220;Starred&#8221; section, Y will un-star the message.
If you&#8217;re in a custom labeled section, Y will remove that label. (For example, if you have a label for &#8220;Personal&#8221; and you&#8217;ve clicked on that Personal label link, so all of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To move the current message conversation into the Archive, just press the &#8220;y&#8221; key.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in the &#8220;Starred&#8221; section, Y will un-star the message.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in a custom labeled section, Y will remove that label. (For example, if you have a label for &#8220;Personal&#8221; and you&#8217;ve clicked on that Personal label link, so all of the messages you&#8217;re viewing are tagged as &#8220;Personal,&#8221; then the Y will remove the Personal label from the current message, meaning it will also be removed from the current view.)</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in the Spam or Sent or All Mail section, the Y key does nothing.
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		<title>/: Search in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/07/search-gmail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/07/search-gmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fire up Gmail, and chances are you&#8217;re going to want to search for a particular message. The quickest way to do that is hit the / (slash key, down by the question mark) which jumps your cursor up into the search box. Type in your search phrase and press Enter. After a few seconds, you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fire up Gmail, and chances are you&#8217;re going to want to search for a particular message. The quickest way to do that is hit the / (slash key, down by the question mark) which jumps your cursor up into the search box. Type in your search phrase and press Enter. After a few seconds, you&#8217;ll see a list of messages with that phrase.</p>
<p>Now you can use J and K (as we discussed) to move up and down messages, and Enter to open a message. When you&#8217;re all done, don&#8217;t forget G, I to go back to the Inbox.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Russell Bradley-Cook for urging me to spend some time on Gmail, and for pointing out that the J and K keys can be used even when you&#8217;re reading messages. Try it out!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll spend some more time on Gmail next week.
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		<title>G, I: Go to Inbox in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/06/go-to-inbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/06/go-to-inbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once you&#8217;ve press Enter to read an e-mail, there are a number of options. But to start with, to go back to the main inbox, press G then I. No shifts or controls or anything like that, just the &#8220;g&#8221; key followed by the &#8220;i&#8221; key.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once you&#8217;ve press Enter to read an e-mail, there are a number of options. But to start with, to go back to the main inbox, press G then I. No shifts or controls or anything like that, just the &#8220;g&#8221; key followed by the &#8220;i&#8221; key.
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		<title>J, K: Previous, next mail plus Enter: Read mail in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/05/j-k-previous-next-mail-plus-enter-read-mail-gmail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/05/j-k-previous-next-mail-plus-enter-read-mail-gmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once you&#8217;ve enabled keyboard shortcuts in gmail, one of the first things you&#8217;ll see is the &#8220;>&#8221; symbol appear next to the list of messages in your inbox. You can press the &#8220;j&#8221; key to move down a message, and the &#8220;k&#8221; key to move up a message. When you get a message you want [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once you&#8217;ve enabled keyboard shortcuts in gmail, one of the first things you&#8217;ll see is the &#8220;>&#8221; symbol appear next to the list of messages in your inbox. You can press the &#8220;j&#8221; key to move down a message, and the &#8220;k&#8221; key to move up a message. When you get a message you want to read, press Enter.</p>
<p>Why J and K? If you&#8217;re an old crusty computer user like me, you may recognize these as shortcuts from an ancient Unix editor called &#8220;vi.&#8221; I happen to know the lead user interface designer of Gmail &#8212; <a href="http://www.fury.com/">Kevin Fox</a>. I asked him yesterday about the reasoning behind using these keys. Kevin is not a vi user, and he picked J and K because they were easy to type keys situated next to each other that didn&#8217;t have any other use. Originally he had proposed it backwards, with J for next and K for previous, based on the reasoning that most of the time you want to read the next message, so that should be the first key. But all the old vi users at Google convinced him to reverse it. He grudgingly did so, but only if the team promised to change it if they got complaints. They never received any complaints, so the keys have stayed.
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		<title>Shift+C: Compose new mail in Gmail in a new window</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/04/compose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/04/compose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t bother with the regular &#8220;C&#8221; to compose; get in the habit of using Shift+C to compose a new mail in a new window, where it doesn&#8217;t interfere with your normal work.
From the regular Gmail screen, just hit Shift+C (after you&#8217;ve enabled keyboard shortcuts, per the previous post). A new window appears. Remember you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t bother with the regular &#8220;C&#8221; to compose; get in the habit of using Shift+C to compose a new mail in a new window, where it doesn&#8217;t interfere with your normal work.</p>
<p>From the regular Gmail screen, just hit Shift+C (after you&#8217;ve enabled keyboard shortcuts, per the previous post). A new window appears. Remember you can use the standard Alt+Tab to switch windows, or Ctrl+W to close the window (without saving or sending) if you change your mind about composing a new message.
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		<title>Gmail! How to enable keyboard shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/04/gmail-overview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/09/04/gmail-overview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gmail</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week we&#8217;ll cover keyboard shortcuts for Gmail, the free online e-mail service from Google.
First things first: In order to use keyboard shortcuts with Gmail, you have to switch them on. (They&#8217;re off by default.) To enable keystrokes, follow these steps:

In your favorite browser, log in to your gmail account.
Click on &#8220;Settings&#8221; in the upper [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week we&#8217;ll cover keyboard shortcuts for <a href="http://www.gmail.com/">Gmail</a>, the free online e-mail service from Google.</p>
<p>First things first: In order to use keyboard shortcuts with Gmail, you have to switch them on. (They&#8217;re off by default.) To enable keystrokes, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>In your favorite browser, log in to your gmail account.</li>
<li>Click on &#8220;Settings&#8221; in the upper right (next to your e-mail address).</li>
<li>In the default General tab, select the &#8220;Keyboard shortcuts on&#8221; radio button.</li>
<li>Click the &#8220;Save Settings&#8221; button at the bottom of the page.</li>
</ol>
<p>You can reference <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&#038;hl=en&#038;answer=6594">this list of keyboard shortcuts for reference</a>, or stay tuned here.
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Task Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/31/task-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/31/task-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just want to see the Task Manager, which gives you a list of which applications and processes are running, lets you run new programs, and lets you kill programs.
Credit for today&#8217;s tip goes to Jake, who left a comment earlier: Ctrl+Shift+Esc will instantly produce the Task Manager.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes you just want to see the Task Manager, which gives you a list of which applications and processes are running, lets you run new programs, and lets you kill programs.</p>
<p>Credit for today&#8217;s tip goes to Jake, who left a comment earlier: Ctrl+Shift+Esc will instantly produce the Task Manager.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+D: Font dialog box in Microsoft Word</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/30/ctrld-font-dialog-box-in-microsoft-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/30/ctrld-font-dialog-box-in-microsoft-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve covered a lot of Ctrl+D shortcuts previously (fill down in Excel, duplicate slide in PowerPoint, bookmark in IE and Firefox), so it&#8217;s understandable if you get a little confused about what Ctrl+D does in each application.
But, if you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word, you might want to memorize this one and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve covered a lot of Ctrl+D shortcuts previously (<a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/12/fill/">fill down</a> in Excel, <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/05/duplicate-slide/">duplicate slide</a> in PowerPoint, <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/30/bookmark/">bookmark</a> in IE and Firefox), so it&#8217;s understandable if you get a little confused about what Ctrl+D does in each application.</p>
<p>But, if you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word, you might want to memorize this one and practice it today: Ctrl+D brings up the Font dialog box in Word, where you can change the font face, the font size, the font color, and a few other special formatting options. (Don&#8217;t forget you can press Ctrl+Tab to change the tabs in the dialog box to change character spacing and special effects.)</p>
<p>If you have selected text, pressing Ctrl+D will apply the font changes to whatever&#8217;s selected. Otherwise, if nothing&#8217;s selected, it&#8217;ll affect what you type next.
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		<title>Ctrl+T: Create hanging indent in Word</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/29/ctrlt-create-hanging-indent-in-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/29/ctrlt-create-hanging-indent-in-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Word, sometimes you want to create what&#8217;s called a &#8220;hanging indent&#8221; (where the first line of a paragraph is at the usual spot on the left margin, but all the subsequent lines in that paragraph are moved in to the next tab stop).
Find a paragraph that&#8217;s more than one line long, hit Ctrl+T, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Word, sometimes you want to create what&#8217;s called a &#8220;hanging indent&#8221; (where the first line of a paragraph is at the usual spot on the left margin, but all the subsequent lines in that paragraph are moved in to the next tab stop).</p>
<p>Find a paragraph that&#8217;s more than one line long, hit Ctrl+T, and you can see how it looks for yourself. Press it several times if you want to indent the second and later lines to the next tab stop.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+G: Group items in PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/28/group-objects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/28/group-objects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you create a text box, and then an arrow, and move them together. Then suppose you need to move them a few times. It&#8217;s annoying to have to move each item separately, so you&#8217;ll usually want to &#8220;group&#8221; them into one object. Sure, you could find the menu commands to do that &#8212; but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suppose you create a text box, and then an arrow, and move them together. Then suppose you need to move them a few times. It&#8217;s annoying to have to move each item separately, so you&#8217;ll usually want to &#8220;group&#8221; them into one object. Sure, you could find the menu commands to do that &#8212; but it&#8217;s much easier to select the two items you want, then press Ctrl+Shift+G.</p>
<p>Note: You can use Tab to select an object (just keep pressing Tab until the object you want is selected), but there&#8217;s no way that I know of to select multiple objects in PowerPoint via the keyboard.</p>
<p>Once an object is grouped, just use the arrow keys to move it around.
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		<title>Shift+F3: Change Case in Word and PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/27/change-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/27/change-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Select some text in Word or PowerPoint, then press Shift+F3. It&#8217;ll toggle between three possibilities for text capitalization:

Initial Letter Case
ALL CAPS CASE
lower case

So, if you have selected some text like &#8220;siX MILlion Dollar mAn&#8221; each time you press Shift+F3 you&#8217;ll see it switch between &#8220;SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN&#8221; and &#8220;six million dollar man&#8221; and &#8220;Six [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/05/select-text/">Select</a> some text in Word or PowerPoint, then press Shift+F3. It&#8217;ll toggle between three possibilities for text capitalization:</p>
<ul>
<li>Initial Letter Case</li>
<li>ALL CAPS CASE</li>
<li>lower case</li>
</ul>
<p>So, if you have selected some text like &#8220;siX MILlion Dollar mAn&#8221; each time you press Shift+F3 you&#8217;ll see it switch between &#8220;SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN&#8221; and &#8220;six million dollar man&#8221; and &#8220;Six Million Dollar Man&#8221;.</p>
<p>However! If you add some punctuation (like a period) at the end of what&#8217;s selected, instead of using Initial Letter Case, it&#8217;ll only capitalize the first letter of the sentence. So &#8220;I wiN!&#8221; will toggle between &#8220;I WIN!&#8221; and &#8220;i win!&#8221; and &#8220;I win!&#8221; (and not ever show &#8220;I Win!&#8221;).
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		<title>Shift+Drag: Move File</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/24/move-file/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/24/move-file/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bonus tip today! This follows from the earlier tip about Ctrl+Shift+Drag to create a shortcut, as well as yesterday&#8217;s tip about Ctrl+Drag to copy a file.
Let&#8217;s be complete: Suppose you&#8217;re still using the mouse to drag a file icon somewhere. And let&#8217;s suppose you&#8217;re about to drag it to a folder for a different drive [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bonus tip today! This follows from the earlier tip about Ctrl+Shift+Drag to create a shortcut, as well as yesterday&#8217;s tip about Ctrl+Drag to copy a file.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s be complete: Suppose you&#8217;re still using the mouse to drag a file icon somewhere. And let&#8217;s suppose you&#8217;re about to drag it to a folder for a different drive (such as your A: drive or a second hard drive like D:, or a network drive like U:). Normally Windows will make a copy when you drag a file between two different drives. But if you hold down the Shift key, it&#8217;ll move the file instead.</p>
<p>Note that when you have the Ctrl key held down (or are dragging the file to the same drive), the ghosted-out image of the file&#8217;s icon has a little &#8220;+&#8221; in it to show it&#8217;s about to be copied.</p>
<p>If you have either the Alt or Ctrl+Shift keys held down, the file&#8217;s icon has a little arrow to show it&#8217;s about to be created as a shortcut.</p>
<p>If you have the Shift key held down, the icon is normal to show it&#8217;s being moved.</p>
<p>(By the way, instead of remembering all this confusing stuff about Shift or Ctrl or Alt), another choice is to use the right mouse button when dragging instead of the left mouse button. Then when you let go of the button, you will get a shortcut menu asking you what to do with the file you&#8217;re dragging. You can use the arrow keys and Enter to select your menu choice instead of clicking on the choice you want.)</p>
<p>Next week we&#8217;ll talk about how to use keys with the Windows Explorer so that you never have to bother with dragging a file ever again.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+Mouse Drag: Create a Shortcut to selected file</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/24/create-shortcut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/24/create-shortcut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a selected file and press Ctrl+Shift while you drag it, it will create a shortcut &#8212; a pointer. This pointer can then be put on the Start menu or placed on your desktop, or put in a folder if you need a quick way to reference the original file.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have a selected file and press Ctrl+Shift while you drag it, it will create a shortcut &#8212; a pointer. This pointer can then be put on the Start menu or placed on your desktop, or put in a folder if you need a quick way to reference the original file.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Mouse Drag: Copy file</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/23/copy-file/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/23/copy-file/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/23/copy-file/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have to use a mouse and you drag a file into a folder, normally it gets moved (assuming you&#8217;re moving it on the same drive). If you hold down the Ctrl key while you drag the file, the file is copied instead. You&#8217;ll end up with one copy in the original location, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you have to use a mouse and you drag a file into a folder, normally it gets moved (assuming you&#8217;re moving it on the same drive). If you hold down the Ctrl key while you drag the file, the file is copied instead. You&#8217;ll end up with one copy in the original location, and one copy in the new folder you dragged it to.
</p>
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		<title>F2: Rename File</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/22/rename/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/22/rename/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, we saw that you can edit a cell in Excel using the F2 key.
We also have discussed dialog boxes and working with files using the Windows Explorer. In order to quickly rename a selected file, just press F2. It works a little like editing a cell in Excel.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previously, we saw that you can <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/11/edit-cell/">edit a cell</a> in Excel using the F2 key.</p>
<p>We also have discussed dialog boxes and working with files using the Windows Explorer. In order to quickly rename a selected file, just press F2. It works a little like editing a cell in Excel.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V: Copy, Paste Format in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/21/copy-paste-format/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/21/copy-paste-format/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/21/ctrlshiftc-ctrlshiftv-copy-paste-format-in-microsoft-word-and-powerpoint/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Try this one in Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint: Select some text that has some formatting you like. Hit Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the formatting into the clipboard (nothing visible will happen).
Now scroll elsewhere and select some different text.  Press Ctrl+Shift+V. Now that formatting you had copied is applied to the selected text. Magic!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Try this one in Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint: Select some text that has some formatting you like. Hit Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the formatting into the clipboard (nothing visible will happen).</p>
<p>Now scroll elsewhere and select some different text.  Press Ctrl+Shift+V. Now that formatting you had copied is applied to the selected text. Magic!
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Spacebar: Remove formatting in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/20/remove-formatting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/20/remove-formatting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To quickly remove all formatting and return text to normal, select it (in Word or PowerPoint) and hit Ctrl+Spacebar. Goodbye ugly fonts!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To quickly remove all formatting and return text to normal, select it (in Word or PowerPoint) and hit Ctrl+Spacebar. Goodbye ugly fonts!
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+J: Open download window in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/17/reopen-tab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/17/reopen-tab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/17/reopen-tab/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ctrl+J opens up a list of the files you&#8217;ve recently downloaded.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ctrl+J opens up a list of the files you&#8217;ve recently downloaded.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+U: View Source in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/16/view-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/16/view-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Explorer</category>

		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/16/view-source/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you&#8217;ll never need this one, but sometimes you want to see the actual HTML code used to create a web page.
In Firefox, go to the page you want to view and then press Ctrl+U. A new Window appears with the HTML code visible and colored appropriately.
(In Internet Explorer, you can press Alt+V to open [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you&#8217;ll never need this one, but sometimes you want to see the actual HTML code used to create a web page.</p>
<p>In Firefox, go to the page you want to view and then press Ctrl+U. A new Window appears with the HTML code visible and colored appropriately.</p>
<p>(In Internet Explorer, you can press Alt+V to open the View menu, then press C to select the Source command. A Notepad window appears with the HTML code available for editing.)</p>
<p>Remember, Alt+F4 closes a window &#8212; use that when you&#8217;re done looking at the source HTML code.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+B: Open Bookmarks pane in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/15/bookmarks-pane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/15/bookmarks-pane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Explorer</category>

		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/15/bookmarks-pane/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Press Ctrl+B and a new pane appears on the left side of your Firefox browser: The Bookmarks pane. Your cursor will automatically appear in the search box. Type in a few letters, and only those pages you&#8217;ve bookmarked that include those letters are listed. Press Tab to jump down to the results, and then press [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Press Ctrl+B and a new pane appears on the left side of your Firefox browser: The Bookmarks pane. Your cursor will automatically appear in the search box. Type in a few letters, and only those pages you&#8217;ve bookmarked that include those letters are listed. Press Tab to jump down to the results, and then press Enter on the one you want to open. Press Ctrl+B again to toggle off the Bookmarks pane.</p>
<p>(Note that in Internet Explorer, Ctrl+B lets you organize your bookmarks.)
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+F, Enter: Repeat Find in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/14/repeat-find/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/14/repeat-find/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Explorer</category>

		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/14/repeat-find/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from yesterday&#8217;s tip, you can repeat a find (looking further on the page for the text you want) in two different ways.
One easy way is press Ctrl+F to re-open the Find box at the bottom of the screen, then press Enter. Each time you press Enter, you&#8217;ll jump down to the next occurrence [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following on from yesterday&#8217;s tip, you can repeat a find (looking further on the page for the text you want) in two different ways.</p>
<p>One easy way is press Ctrl+F to re-open the Find box at the bottom of the screen, then press Enter. Each time you press Enter, you&#8217;ll jump down to the next occurrence of the text you&#8217;re looking for. (Note that this also works in Internet Explorer.)</p>
<p>Another way is you can press Alt+N to search for the Next example (as long as the Find box is visible).
</p>
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		<title>/: Find on page in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/13/find-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/13/find-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Firefox</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/13/find-on-page-in-firefox/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for another week of Firefox shortcuts.
Firefox is the open-source Web browser from Mozilla; learn more about it (and download it for free) here.
I previously reported that you can use Ctrl+F to Find text. Well, in Firefox, you can do it even faster &#8212; just hit the slash key (down on the lower right, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s time for another week of <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/category/firefox/">Firefox shortcuts</a>.</p>
<p>Firefox is the open-source Web browser from Mozilla; learn more about it (and download it for free) <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/">here</a>.</p>
<p>I previously reported that you can use <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/04/16/find/">Ctrl+F to Find text</a>. Well, in Firefox, you can do it even faster &#8212; just hit the slash key (down on the lower right, next to the period and right Shift key).</p>
<p>Immediately your cursor will move to a Quick Find box at the bottom of the screen. Type in the text that you want to find on the current page in your browser, and you&#8217;ll automatically jump to the appropriate place and see that text highlighted.
</p>
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		<title>Shift+Delete: Delete file without sending it to Trashcan</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/10/delete-file-permanently/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/10/delete-file-permanently/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/10/delete-file-permanently/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned this one back in this Explorer shortcut post, but it deserves being spelled out on its own: When you see a file in a directory folder (such as when opening or saving a file, or when using the Windows Explorer), you can delete a file normally by using the Delete key. It then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mentioned this one back in this <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/05/10/windows-explorer/">Explorer shortcut</a> post, but it deserves being spelled out on its own: When you see a file in a directory folder (such as when opening or saving a file, or when using the Windows Explorer), you can delete a file normally by using the Delete key. It then goes to the Trashcan, where you can undelete it.</p>
<p>If you have a sensitive file or a big file that you don&#8217;t want taking up disk space, press Shift+Delete to delete it instead. It won&#8217;t appear in the Trashcan, it&#8217;s just gone with only one confirmation dialog box to confirm.</p>
<p>Change your mind? You can press <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/23/undo/">Ctrl+Z to Undo</a> the delete operation, but don&#8217;t wait too long.
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+Ctrl+F: Find Computers on your network</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/09/find-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/09/find-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If your computer is on a network (such as when you&#8217;re at work) and you want to find a computer based on its name, press the Windows key plus Ctrl plus the letter F, then type in the computer&#8217;s name and press Enter.
Once a list of computers is returned, you can press the Up and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If your computer is on a network (such as when you&#8217;re at work) and you want to find a computer based on its name, press the Windows key plus Ctrl plus the letter F, then type in the computer&#8217;s name and press Enter.</p>
<p>Once a list of computers is returned, you can press the Up and Down Arrow keys to select the computer you want to access, and then press Enter to see the list of shared folders and printers available on that computer.
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+F: Find Documents</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/08/find-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/08/find-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To search for files and folders on your computer, try Windows key plus F.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To search for files and folders on your computer, try Windows key plus F.
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+Shift+M: Un-minimize all applications</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/07/un-minimize-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/07/un-minimize-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Related to yesterday&#8217;s tip, Windows key plus the Shift key plus the letter m will undo your &#8220;minimize all&#8221; action.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Related to yesterday&#8217;s tip, Windows key plus the Shift key plus the letter m will undo your &#8220;minimize all&#8221; action.
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+M: Minimize all Windows</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/06/minimize-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/06/minimize-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We started covering the Windows key back when the blog first started on February 23. (Recall that the Windows key by itself will show the Start menu; combined with different keystrokes, you can perform other useful tasks.)
One of the most useful shortcuts we covered is Windows key+D to show the Desktop. Related to that is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We started covering the <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/windows-key/">Windows key</a> back when the blog first started on <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/02/23/windows-key/">February 23</a>. (Recall that the Windows key by itself will show the Start menu; combined with different keystrokes, you can perform other useful tasks.)</p>
<p>One of the most useful shortcuts we covered is <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/14/show-desktop/">Windows key+D to show the Desktop</a>. Related to that is a similar keystroke: Windows key+M will minimize all of the open applications that can be minimzied, showing only dialog boxes. Try it out!</p>
<p>(If you want to minimize only the current window, try this <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/21/minimize/">minimize shortcut</a>.)
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+R: Run</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/03/run/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/03/run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Run&#8221; dialog box from the Windows Start menu is a handy way to open an application or document. Usually you would select it from the Start menu, but a shortcut is to press the Windows key and R.
Once you&#8217;ve got the Run dialog box open, you can type in the name of a program [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;Run&#8221; dialog box from the Windows Start menu is a handy way to open an application or document. Usually you would select it from the Start menu, but a shortcut is to press the Windows key and R.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve got the Run dialog box open, you can type in the name of a program and then Enter. Here are some popular ones:</p>
<ul>
<li>cmd: Command prompt for running DOS-style commands</li>
<li>notepad: The Notepad app</li>
<li>sol: Solitaire</li>
<li>winword: Microsoft Word</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Backspace: Move up a directory level</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/02/up-directory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/02/up-directory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in the Windows Explorer or viewing files when using File &#124; Open (usually Ctrl+O) or File &#124; Save (usually Ctrl+S), and you want to move up a directory level (for example, move from U:\DOCUMENTS\2007 to U:\DOCUMENTS), then press the Backspace key.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re in the Windows Explorer or viewing files when using File | Open (usually Ctrl+O) or File | Save (usually Ctrl+S), and you want to move up a directory level (for example, move from U:\DOCUMENTS\2007 to U:\DOCUMENTS), then press the Backspace key.
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		<title>Alt+Enter: Properties</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/01/properties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/01/properties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In quite a few applications, you can press Alt+Enter to open a Properties dialog box (which displays information about the selected object).
For example, suppose you press the Windows key+E to open the Windows Explorer. As you navigate around, suppose you want to know more information about a folder or drive or file. Press Alt+Enter and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In quite a few applications, you can press Alt+Enter to open a Properties dialog box (which displays information about the selected object).</p>
<p>For example, suppose you press the Windows key+E to open the Windows Explorer. As you navigate around, suppose you want to know more information about a folder or drive or file. Press Alt+Enter and you&#8217;ll get a Properties dialog box.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Delete: Delete to next word</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/31/delete-word-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/31/delete-word-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Navigation</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Partnered with yesterday&#8217;s tip, you can delete an entire word from where the cursor is to right with Ctrl+Delete.
For example, if your cursor is like so (before &#8220;country&#8217;s&#8221;): &#8220;TiVo is the _country&#8217;s best DVR&#8221; and you press Ctrl+Delete, you&#8217;ll get &#8220;TiVo is the best DVR&#8221;.
If your cursor is in the middle of a word, such [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Partnered with yesterday&#8217;s tip, you can delete an entire word from where the cursor is to right with Ctrl+Delete.</p>
<p>For example, if your cursor is like so (before &#8220;country&#8217;s&#8221;): &#8220;TiVo is the _country&#8217;s best DVR&#8221; and you press Ctrl+Delete, you&#8217;ll get &#8220;TiVo is the best DVR&#8221;.</p>
<p>If your cursor is in the middle of a word, such as &#8220;extra_ordinary&#8221; and you press Ctrl+Delete, you&#8217;ll be left with just &#8220;extra&#8221;.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+Backspace: Delete to previous word</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/30/delete-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/30/delete-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Navigation</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re typing (in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and many other text entry programs) and you use the wrong word, a quick way to delete the entire word is Ctrl+Backspace.
You need to practice this one a few times to get used to it. It&#8217;s also an easy one to forget to use, but it&#8217;s worth making [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re typing (in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and many other text entry programs) and you use the wrong word, a quick way to delete the entire word is Ctrl+Backspace.</p>
<p>You need to practice this one a few times to get used to it. It&#8217;s also an easy one to forget to use, but it&#8217;s worth making the effort to get the Ctrl+Backspace habit: If you type a long word and want to erase it instantly, it&#8217;s much faster to hit Ctrl+Backspace then the Backspace key by itself several times.</p>
<p>As an example, if you type, &#8220;I must remember to buy a new hippopotamus_&#8221; and your cursor is right after the word hippopotamus, the entire word hippopotamus is erased and your cursor is now positioned at the end of the sentence: &#8220;I must remember to buy a new_&#8221;. Then you can type &#8220;toaster&#8221; or whatever word you actually want to type.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in the middle of a word, it only deletes the portion that&#8217;s to the left of your cursor. So if you typed &#8220;Here comes the sun_king&#8221; and move your cursor (as indicated) between the &#8220;sun&#8221; and &#8220;king&#8221; portions, then press Ctrl+Backspace, what you&#8217;re left with is &#8220;Here comes the king.&#8221;
</p>
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		<title>Alt+F4: Close application</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/27/close/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/27/close/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To exit from the current application, try Alt+F4.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To exit from the current application, try Alt+F4.
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		<title>Shift+Insert a CD: Don&#8217;t auto-run / auto-play</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/26/cd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/26/cd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you insert a CD in your computer, it will usually begin automatically playing or running a designated default program.
If you hold down the Shift key when inserting the CD, then nothing will automatically start, allowing you to use the Explorer (remember Windows key+E!) to view the files instead, if you like.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you insert a CD in your computer, it will usually begin automatically playing or running a designated default program.</p>
<p>If you hold down the Shift key when inserting the CD, then nothing will automatically start, allowing you to use the Explorer (remember Windows key+E!) to view the files instead, if you like.
</p>
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		<title>Left Shift + Left Alt + Print Screen: High Contrast Mode</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/25/high-contrast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/25/high-contrast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can toggle on or off the High Contrast Mode of Windows by holding down both the Shift key and the Alt key on the left side of your keyboard then tapping the Print Screen (PrtScrn) key.
High Contrast mode will increase the font size for all windows and buttons as well as change your color [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can toggle on or off the High Contrast Mode of Windows by holding down both the Shift key and the Alt key on the left side of your keyboard then tapping the Print Screen (PrtScrn) key.</p>
<p>High Contrast mode will increase the font size for all windows and buttons as well as change your color scheme.
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+F1: Help</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/24/help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/24/help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To launch Windows help, tap the Windows key plus F1.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To launch Windows help, tap the Windows key plus F1.
</p>
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		<title>Windows key+U: Utility manager</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/23/utility-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/23/utility-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Windows</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week we&#8217;ll cover a few more general Windows shortcuts.
Just to get this one out of the way: We&#8217;ve covered the Windows key previously. The Windows key plus the letter U runs the Windows Utility manager, which lets you control how three specific utilities work on your computer:

The Magnifier, which can enlarge sections of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week we&#8217;ll cover a few more general Windows shortcuts.</p>
<p>Just to get this one out of the way: We&#8217;ve covered the <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/windows-key/">Windows key</a> previously. The Windows key plus the letter U runs the Windows Utility manager, which lets you control how three specific utilities work on your computer:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Magnifier, which can enlarge sections of the screen (making them easier to see).</li>
<li>The Onscreen Keyboard, which lets you use a mouse or joystick to type keys instead of the regular keyboard.</li>
<li>The Narrator, which can read aloud text on screen.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Suggestions?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/17/suggestions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/17/suggestions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>general</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What applications do you use most frequently? What tips have you enjoyed, and what would you like to see more of?

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What applications do you use most frequently? What tips have you enjoyed, and what would you like to see more of?
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		<title>Week off</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/16/week-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/16/week-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>general</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be taking this week off and returning with new tips next week. (Busy week at work!)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ll be taking this week off and returning with new tips next week. (Busy week at work!)
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+; (Semi-Colon): Enter today&#8217;s date in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/13/date/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/13/date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Move to a cell, hit Ctrl+; and today&#8217;s date will be typed into the current cell. Press Enter to accept the date. (Note that this isn&#8217;t a formula, so if you do it today, on Friday the Thirteenth, it&#8217;ll still say 7/13/2007 tomorrow.)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Move to a cell, hit Ctrl+; and today&#8217;s date will be typed into the current cell. Press Enter to accept the date. (Note that this isn&#8217;t a formula, so if you do it today, on Friday the Thirteenth, it&#8217;ll still say 7/13/2007 tomorrow.)
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		<title>Ctrl+D, Ctrl+R: Fill Down, Right in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/12/fill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/12/fill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows you can copy and paste cells in Excel, but a lot of times you want to do it quickly in a specific way. Turns out there are two simple keyboard shortcuts that let you copy cells quickly.
Move your cursor to a cell that you want to copy. Suppose you want to copy it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone knows you can copy and paste cells in Excel, but a lot of times you want to do it quickly in a specific way. Turns out there are two simple keyboard shortcuts that let you copy cells quickly.</p>
<p>Move your cursor to a cell that you want to copy. Suppose you want to copy it down five times. Hit Shift+Down Arrow four times to select the four cells below your current one. Then press Ctrl+D. Whatever is in the first cell is copied to fill the remaining cells. (Whatever was in those cells is overwitten.)</p>
<p>You can do the same thing to the right with Shift+Right Arrow and Ctrl+R.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+$: Apply Currency Formatting in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/11/currency-formatting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/11/currency-formatting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Excel, type a number into a cell (such as &#8220;54.1&#8243;) and press Enter. Then press Ctrl+Shift+4 (or another way to think of that is Ctrl+$). Instantly the currency format is applied to the selected cells, and your &#8220;54.1&#8243; becomes &#8220;$54.10&#8243;.
You have quite a few other options as well:

Ctrl+~ (Ctrl+Shift+`): General format
Ctrl+! (Ctrl+Shift+1): Number format [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Excel, type a number into a cell (such as &#8220;54.1&#8243;) and press Enter. Then press Ctrl+Shift+4 (or another way to think of that is Ctrl+$). Instantly the currency format is applied to the selected cells, and your &#8220;54.1&#8243; becomes &#8220;$54.10&#8243;.</p>
<p>You have quite a few other options as well:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ctrl+~ (Ctrl+Shift+`): General format</li>
<li>Ctrl+! (Ctrl+Shift+1): Number format (with two decimal places and the thousands separator)</li>
<li>Ctrl+@ (Ctrl+Shift+2): Time format</li>
<li>Ctrl+# (Ctrl+Shift+3): Date format</li>
<li>Ctrl+$ (Ctrl+Shift+4): Currency format</li>
<li>Ctrl+% (Ctrl+Shift+5): Percentage format</li>
<li>Ctrl+^ (Ctrl+Shift+6): Exponential format</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Ctrl+0: Hide Columns in Excel (Ctrl+Shift+0 to Unhide Columns)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/11/hide-columns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/11/hide-columns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Similar to yesterday&#8217;s tip, you can press Ctrl+0 to hide the column where the cursor is located. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Shift+0 unhides all the columns in the sheet.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Similar to yesterday&#8217;s tip, you can press Ctrl+0 to hide the column where the cursor is located. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Shift+0 unhides all the columns in the sheet.
</p>
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		<title>Ctrl+9: Hide Rows in Excel (Ctrl+Shift+9 to Unhide)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/09/hide-rows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/09/hide-rows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll hit some more Excel tips this week.
In Excel, move somewhere in a row you want to hide and press Ctrl+9. The entire current row is hidden (and you don&#8217;t need to select the entire row, just have your cursor somewhere in the row).
Remember you can use Shift+Up Arrow or Shift+Down Arrow to select while [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ll hit some more Excel tips this week.</p>
<p>In Excel, move somewhere in a row you want to hide and press Ctrl+9. The entire current row is hidden (and you don&#8217;t need to select the entire row, just have your cursor somewhere in the row).</p>
<p>Remember you can use Shift+Up Arrow or Shift+Down Arrow to select while moving; this way, you can select cells on several rows. Once you have cells from more than one row selected, all of those rows are hidden when you press Ctrl+9.</p>
<p>Next, try this: Press Ctrl+A to select the worksheet, then press Ctrl+Shift+9 &#8212; also known as Ctrl+( &#8212; to unhide all of the rows that are hidden.
</p>
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		<title>Keystrokes during a PowerPoint Slideshow Presentation</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/06/presentation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/06/presentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We already covered pressing F5 to begin the presentation. Doubtless you know already that pressing space or page down or practically any key advances to the next slide, and that PageUp or P or Left Arrow or Up Arrow go the previous slide.
Did you know there were quite a few things you can do during [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We already covered pressing F5 to begin the presentation. Doubtless you know already that pressing space or page down or practically any key advances to the next slide, and that PageUp or P or Left Arrow or Up Arrow go the previous slide.</p>
<p>Did you know there were quite a few things you can do during a presentation too?</p>
<p>During the presentation, press F1 to see a list of the keystrokes available.</p>
<p>The most useful ones are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Type a number and press Enter to go to that slide. For example, typing 15, Enter jumps to slide 15.</li>
<li>Press B or the period key to turn the screen black. Press it again to return to the current slide.</li>
<li>Press W or the comma key to turn the screen white. Press it again to return to the current slide.</li>
<li>Press Ctrl+P to get a Pen pointer, allowing you to use the mouse to draw on the slide. (These drawings are NOT saved.)</li>
<li>Press E to erase the drawings (or just go to the next slide).</li>
<li>Press Ctrl+A to return to the standard Arrow pointer</li>
<li>Press A to hide the arrow pointer (invisible cursor)</li>
<li>Press Shift+F10 for a menu of these and other options.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Ctrl+D: Duplicate Slide (PowerPoint)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/05/duplicate-slide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/05/duplicate-slide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In PowerPoint, when you&#8217;re in the Slide Sorter or Outline views, you can press Ctrl+D to insert a slide in your presentation that&#8217;s a duplicate of the current slide.
This doesn&#8217;t work in edit mode, unfortunately; for that, you need to use the Insert menu&#8217;s Duplicate Slide command. (Get there simply by pressing Alt+I, D).

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In PowerPoint, when you&#8217;re in the Slide Sorter or Outline views, you can press Ctrl+D to insert a slide in your presentation that&#8217;s a duplicate of the current slide.</p>
<p>This doesn&#8217;t work in edit mode, unfortunately; for that, you need to use the Insert menu&#8217;s Duplicate Slide command. (Get there simply by pressing Alt+I, D).
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		<title>General PowerPoint tips: Tab to select objects, arrows to move them, Ctrl+M for new slide</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/04/powerpoint-general/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/04/powerpoint-general/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In general in PowerPoint, you can get a lot done with the Tab key and the arrows keys.
If you&#8217;re entering text, first press Esc to cancel text entering mode. Then press the Tab key; every time you press Tab, you&#8217;ll select a different object. (This is invaluable to switch between the title and the text [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In general in PowerPoint, you can get a lot done with the Tab key and the arrows keys.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re entering text, first press Esc to cancel text entering mode. Then press the Tab key; every time you press Tab, you&#8217;ll select a different object. (This is invaluable to switch between the title and the text body, for example.) When an object is selected, the arrow keys will move it.</p>
<p>While moving an object, it will snap to the grid unless you hold down the Ctrl key.</p>
<p>To insert a new slide and start typing without using the mouse, try these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Press Ctrl+M to insert a new slide.</li>
<li>Press F6 to select the slide. (Each time you press F6 it switches between the open panes on the interface.)</li>
<li>Press Tab to select the title box. Type your title.</li>
<li>Press Esc to cancel text entry.</li>
<li>Press Tab to select the text box. Type your text.</li>
</ol>
<p>The above keystrokes get easier with practice, and soon you can be in PowerPoint Power Typing mode!
</p>
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		<title>F5: Run Slideshow (PowerPoint)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/03/slideshow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/03/slideshow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tap F5 in Microsoft PowerPoint and you&#8217;ll run a slideshow, from the first slide.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tap F5 in Microsoft PowerPoint and you&#8217;ll run a slideshow, from the first slide.
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		<title>Ctrl+T: Change Font (in PowerPoint)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/02/font-powerpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/07/02/font-powerpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s PowerPoint week this week at the Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day.
Today&#8217;s tip is quite handy when entering or editing text in PowerPoint: Press Ctrl+T to bring up the Font dialog box, where you can edit the font face, style, size, color, and special effects.
(One wonders why this eminently handly tip isn&#8217;t usable in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s PowerPoint week this week at the Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s tip is quite handy when entering or editing text in PowerPoint: Press Ctrl+T to bring up the Font dialog box, where you can edit the font face, style, size, color, and special effects.</p>
<p>(One wonders why this eminently handly tip isn&#8217;t usable in Word, Excel, or Outlook. In Word, it&#8217;s useful for the hanging indent function &#8212; but how often do you use that? In Excel, it seems to do nothing at all. In Outlook, it functions just like the Tab key, so that&#8217;s a waste.)
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		<title>F7: Spell Check (Microsoft Office)</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/06/29/spellcheck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/06/29/spellcheck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft Excel</category>

		<category>Microsoft Outlook</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In most Microsoft Office apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), tap F7 to begin the spellcheck process.
In the spellecheck dialog box, don&#8217;t forget to use Alt plus an underlined letter to hit the button! Using Alt+A to Add a correct word (such as your last name) to your custom dictionary is smart because it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In most Microsoft Office apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), tap F7 to begin the spellcheck process.</p>
<p>In the spellecheck dialog box, don&#8217;t forget to use Alt plus an underlined letter to hit the button! Using Alt+A to Add a correct word (such as your last name) to your custom dictionary is smart because it saves time in two ways &#8212; now, by saving you from having to use your mouse to hit the button, and later, by preventing this correctly spelled word from ever wasting your time again.
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		<title>Ctrl+[, Ctrl+]: Increase, decrease font size in Word, Outlook &#38; PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/06/28/font-size/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/06/28/font-size/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Applications</category>

		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft Outlook</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have selected text and want to change its point size, you can easily do so with a simple keystroke: Ctrl+[ (the square bracket key next to the letter P on most keyboards) will lower the selected text by 1 point. Tap it a few times to see the effect. Similarly, Ctrl+] increases the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have selected text and want to change its point size, you can easily do so with a simple keystroke: Ctrl+[ (the square bracket key next to the letter P on most keyboards) will lower the selected text by 1 point. Tap it a few times to see the effect. Similarly, Ctrl+] increases the text size.</p>
<p>You can also use Ctrl+&lt; and Ctrl+&gt; &#8212; but while that may be easier to remember, you have to use the Shift key, so I prefer the square brackets. Also, that keystroke doesn&#8217;t work in Outlook.</p>
<p>(If you need to, you can <a href="http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/03/05/select-text/">review how to select text with the keyboard</a>.)</p>
<p>Excel doesn&#8217;t allow any of these keystrokes. Excel is a bit of a fuddy-duddy that way, refusing to play along.
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		<title>Ctrl+L: Left justify, Ctrl+R: Right justify, Ctrl+E: Center, Ctrl+J: Justify</title>
		<link>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/06/27/justify/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/06/27/justify/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>estephen</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Applications</category>

		<category>Microsoft Word</category>

		<category>Microsoft Outlook</category>

		<category>Microsoft PowerPoint</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re using Word, Outlook or PowerPoint, you can change the justification of a paragraph using the following four keystrokes:

Ctrl+L: Left justify the current paragraph, but keep the right margin ragged
Ctrl+R: Right justify the current paragraph.
Ctrl+E: Center the current paragraph (since Ctrl+C is already taken with Copy, they had to use the second letter.)
Ctrl+J: Left [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re using Word, Outlook or PowerPoint, you can change the justification of a paragraph using the following four keystrokes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ctrl+L: Left justify the current paragraph, but keep the right margin ragged</li>
<li>Ctrl+R: Right justify the current paragraph.</li>
<li>Ctrl+E: Center the current paragraph (since Ctrl+C is already taken with Copy, they had to use the second letter.)</li>
<li>Ctrl+J: Left justify the current paragraph, but keep the right margin justified</li>
</ul>
<p>What does &#8220;justification&#8221; mean? Nothing to do with justice. I&#8217;m not sure why justification is called what it is. But that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s called; for more, check out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_%28typesetting%29">wikipedia&#8217;s entry on justification</a>.</p>
<p>This is left (Ctrl+L).</p>
<p align="center">This is centered (Ctrl+E).</p>
<p align="right">This is right (Ctrl+R).</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: justify">This paragraph is fully justified, which means the right margin is in a straight line. The rest of this paragraph is just nonsense text. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: l