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YDKWYDK: Microsoft Word Selection Techniques

Mary Gaspervich — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:02:53 +0000

Many Microsoft Word users know the most basic ways to select text in a document. The following table lists contains 20 sure-fire selection techniques that will make selecting text much less frustrating. MICROSOFT WORD SELECTION TECHNIQUES TECHNIQUE DESCRIPTION 1. Click-and-drag Selects the desired text 2. SHIFT + Arrows Selects one character or line at a time 3. SHIFT [...]

Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Jim Bloomingdale — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:59:53 +0000

The New Service Pack is expected to be available for Technet, MSDN, and Volume Licensing customers on February 17th, with a release to the General public about a week later. Of course these dates can move around a bit. The product was Released to Manufacturing on February 9th. How much difference will you see after [...]

Indexing a PDF’s Contents in Windows

Jim Bloomingdale — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:14:26 +0000

Starting with Windows Vista and being improved in Windows 7 is the new search capabilities. Searching for content in your computer has never been quicker than it is now. With the indexing service it is very simple and fairly quick to not only search for a file name but to search the contents of documents [...]

Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer Beta

Jim Bloomingdale — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:57:10 +0000

Microsoft came up with a fun little tool that will allow you to track down potential security threats from different application. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e068c224-9d6d-4bf4-aab8-f7352a5e7d45 The tool is still in beta so there are some oddities but it is very thorough in its analysis of a system and how an application can expose that system to threats. The [...]

YDKWYDK: Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts

Heather Ferrise — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:00:53 +0000

Thanks again for the great feedback on our keyboard shortcuts series. We will issue another round, complete with your suggestions, in the next few months. Without further ado, here are the lesser-known keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word Microsoft Word CTRL+A Select all CTRL+END Move to end of document CTRL+SHIFT+V Paste formatting CTRL+F Find SHIFT+F3 Change [...]

YDKWYDK: Microsoft Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts

Heather Ferrise — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:06:20 +0000

More from our series of off-the-beaten-path keyboard shortcuts… Thanks again to all who sent their favorites from PowerPoint and Excel. If you have any favorite “clutch” efficiencies in Outlook, and you feel so motivated, drop them in an email to me at hferrise@t3training.com Microsoft Outlook CTRL+1 Switch to Mail CTRL+U Mark as unread CTRL+SHIFT+B Open [...]

YDKWYDK: Microsoft PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts

Heather Ferrise — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:39:05 +0000

As promised, here is the first round of lesser-known but totally clutch Microsoft PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts… Microsoft PowerPoint F6 Move among panes CTRL+SHIFT+ > Increase font size ALT+SHIFT+Up Move selected paragraph up SHIFT+F9 Show grid CTRL+SHIFT+ < Decrease font size ALT+SHIFT+Down Move selected paragraph down ALT+F9 Show guides CTRL+E Center paragraph CTRL+D Duplicate object F5 [...]

YDKWYDK: Microsoft Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

Heather Ferrise — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:58:05 +0000

Many Microsoft Excel users know the most common keyboard shortcuts. The following table lists some of the more obscure ones that consistently generate a “I had no idea that one existed” response from even our most experienced, power-user-type students. Microsoft Excel CTRL+SHIFT+& Apply outline border to selection CTRL+ARROW Moves to end of current range SHIFT+SPBAR [...]

Back by Popular Demand…

Heather Ferrise — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:35:16 +0000

Sorry for the long delay since our last post. Thank you for your outpouring of enthusiastic comments and gentle nudges for more content. Due to the large amount of positive feedback that we have received, we resolve to make our blog a much higher priority than last year. Cheers to a successful and prosperous 2011.

Microsoft Surface

Jim Bloomingdale — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:27:09 +0000

Microsoft recently unveiled Version 2.0 of Surface. Ok, I know there really isn’t anything you can do with it currently and I certainly wouldn’t spend the money on it now. It’s just kind of cool and in the future could be really nice. Check it out.

Publish Your Excel Workbook to the Web

Jim Bloomingdale — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:05:18 +0000

We have had the ability to publish an Excel Workbook to the web before but we needed to have either SharePoint or save the file as an HTML page and then post. Now with the Office Web Apps you can publish your Workbook to the web in either your website or a blog entry like [...]

YDKWYDK: Make Excel stop lying to you!

Heather Ferrise — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:43:13 +0000

I had a student a number of years ago who was in a bunch of hot water with her manager. She had updated a critical spreadsheet for a co-worker who was on vacation, and in doing so, entered data right over the complex, nested, multi-dimensional formulas that took eons to create and perfect. Because the [...]

YDKWYDK: Things you never thought to ask about Office

Heather Ferrise — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:35:10 +0000

You don’t know what you don’t know, right? Here’s the kickoff for our YDKWYDK series of postings that highlight “hidden” tips/tricks/shortcuts/efficiency boosters/sanity savers from the Office suite of applications. In my many years of delivering training, I have discovered that even the most experienced, power-user types exhibit gaps in knowledge. Usually, it’s not because of [...]

NoReplyAll Outlook Add-in

Jim Bloomingdale — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:06:17 +0000

Ever wish there was a way to stop people from “Replying to All” in Outlook? You know the scenario: someone from the company sends out an informational email and the next thing you know 25 people decide to Reply to All and the users of your company are flooded with emails that are just not [...]

Exchange 2010 SP1

Jim Bloomingdale — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:32:13 +0000

Service pack 1 for Exchange 2010 is finally here. There are many new features and a whole bunch of fixes. The following documents are a good place to start: What’s New in SP1, SP1 Release Notes, and Prerequisites The Exchange team also has a decent article about the upgrade and some potential issues. Exchange 2010 [...]

Remote Desktop Connection Manager

Jim Bloomingdale — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:13:43 +0000

The Remote Desktop Connection Manager (or RDCMan, for short) is a pretty cool, free tool from Microsoft to help manage all those remote desktop connections. You can download the tool here You can create multiple files with an .rdg extension. Once you have created a file you can look at the settings. The settings will [...]

Running a PowerShell Script

Jim Bloomingdale — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:20:28 +0000

PowerShell is this awesome tool that Microsoft is integrating to just about everything. Back to the command line we go. Scripting is really powerful and can really streamline a lot of processes. One of most common questions I get is, “How do I run a script in PowerShell?” This might seem really simple until you [...]