IT Tip: Hands Off Your Mouse
Constantly moving between your keyboard and mouse breaks your rhythm. You can reduce the number of mouse reaches by using simple keyboard shortcuts. Sorry Mac users, these are for Windows only. Some favorites for the most common Outlook actions: ENTER, or, CTRL+O to Open an email CTRL+N to start a New email…
IT Tip: Using " / " commands in Teams
Slash the Teams Search bar You can use “ / “ codes in the Teams Search field: * Type “/call” to call someone. * Type “/chat” to send a chat message. * Type “/busy” to change your status to Busy. “/available” to make yourself available again. * “/” by itself displays a list of all commands.
IT Tip: Quickly Display Desktop and Open Applications
A couple of little known, but handy tricks on the Windows taskbar … To quickly access an icon or shortcut on your Desktop, click the little sliver to the far right of your Taskbar to minimize all windows and display your full Desktop: To quickly preview all running applications and windows, click the Task Vie…
IT Tip: Windows Logo Key
What can you do with Windows logo key at the lower left of your keyboard? Quite a lot. Here are some examples. Perhaps you’ll find a few favorites: Key combination Action Windows logo key Open or close the Start menu Windows logo key + D Display the desktop Windows logo key + M …
IT Tip: Ctrl V versus Windows V
If you ever need to copy and paste from multiple sources to one location, use Windows + V instead of CTRL+V. * Copy (CTRL+C) from multiple places (ex. a web page, a PDF, a Word document), then press Windows +V to display a list of recently copied items. * Then simply click the item to paste. *The Windows key i…
IT Tip: Word Shortcuts
Here are some not-so-well-known keyboard shortcuts in Word: * Rather than pecking at the Delete or Backspace keys to delete a word, place your cursor at the end of the word then press CTRL+Backspace * Double-click a word to highlight it * Triple-click to highlight an entire sentence * Highlight a word and p…
IT Tip: Windows logo key
What can you do with Windows logo key at the lower left of your keyboard? Quite a lot. Here are some examples. Perhaps you’ll find a few favorites: Key combination Action Windows logo key Open or close the Start menu Windows logo key + D Display the desktop Windows logo key + M Minimize…
