Posts Tagged ‘keystrokes’

Jumping Between Fields in your MS Word Document

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Someone wrote to me recently because he had a lot of fields in his document and wanted to know if there was a way he could quickly jump from field to field.

The short answer is yes!

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. To jump forward to the next field in your document, click F11.
  2. To jump backwards to the prior field in your document, click Shift + F11..

Everyone knows that I love to save time and keystrokes!

Move your Table Quickly

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

For those of you who love to save keystrokes and time, this is the tip for you!

Did you know that in most versions of MS Word you can use your mouse to quickly and easily move your entire table within your documents?  Well you can!  Everyone knows I am the queen of saving time and keystrokes, so I thought I would share this with those of you who weren’t aware of this nifty little feature.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Hover your mouse over your table. You do not have to click, just hover. When you do you will see in the upper left corner of your table, a small icon that looks like a square with a four headed arrow inside it.
  2. When you click and drag the icon your table moves with it.
  3. Once you have reached the spot in your document where you would like your table to appear, simply release your mouse button and your table has now been repositioned!

Cool beans huh?

Duplicate an Entire Spreadsheet Quickly and Easily in MS Excel

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

There will be times in your life when you will have to duplicate the spreadsheets in a workbook and it can get pretty tedious when you do it by inserting a new spreadsheet and then copying and pasting everything into it.

You can accomplish the same thing in less than half the time.  As long as you have created your spreadsheet properly to begin with, you can duplicate it by simply holding down the CTRL key while dragging the sheet tab of the original.

While you are dragging it you will notice a small sheet icon with a plus sign, which indicates copying, and a small black arrow that indicates where the duplicated sheet will be inserted.

Release the mouse button and CTRL key and you will now have an identical copy of your original sheet.

Pretty cool eh?  Didn’t I tell you it would save you time?  Saves keystrokes too!

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