3 steps to making your life easier with Windows shortcuts

It is a fact that we spend hours in front of our computer screens everyday, often typing emails, writing word documents and working on excel spreadsheets. These programs are much more user friendly than we think but we often have no idea of the sort of things they can do.

If you want to be make your work easier and save lot of time, I encourage you to follow these 3 simple steps for fast results:
1. google "word shortcuts" or "excel shortcuts" or whatever it is you are looking for and spend a few minutes actually reading some of the results
2. write down on a post it note some of those shortcuts that you know will save you a lot of time in your everyday work
3. place the post it note on your computer screen for a week

After a week of using that shortcut you will learn it and you can throw the post it note away but your productivity and speed in preparing documents will improve

Here are a few useful shortcuts that you may not been aware of:

Get back to where you were
If you are like me and often change between several word documents that you are working on and you don’t remember where exactly you left off, the Shift+F5 combination will save you quite a bit of time. Hit both keys at the same time and Word will automatically place your cursor to where you last left off.

Use the built-in thesaurus
The Shift+F7 combination will look up a highlighted word in the thesaurus sidebar in Microsoft Word.

Insert the Date, Page or Time
The Alt+Shift+D combination will enter the date quickly into a document, and the same applies for entering Page numbers (Alt+Shift+P) and entering the Time (Alt+Shift+T)

Copy, Cut and Paste
If you are copying, cutting and pasting manually you will love to know that simply by using Ctrl+C (to copy), Ctrl+X (to cut) and Ctrl+P (to paste), you will make this action very fast and very easy. This shortcut for example, is a must!

We often provide our clients with shortcuts for the use of all their staff - to increase productivity and as a form of staff development. Contact us if you would like to get your hands on shortcuts for the product you are using.