The dog days of summer are upon us. Here are some time saving tips to help get you back in the groove. |
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Quickly and Accurately Select Text in Word
Most users know how to select text by clicking and dragging. This tends to lead to problems. Either the screen scrolls too quickly and you end up with too much text selected and have to start over, or you miss a part of a word or sentence.
Select a single word by double-clicking the word. To select an entire sentence, press the CTRL key on your keyboard and click anywhere within the sentence. Triple-click within a paragraph if you need to select the entire paragraph. You can also press and hold the Shift key and then press the Up or Down arrow to select entire lines of text. To select an entire document, press CTRL + A or triple-click in the left margin.
Start Where You Left Off
When you reopen a document in Word, the cursor appears at the very beginning. To jump to the place where the cursor was when you closed the file, just press Shift-F5.
Create a Line
To create a horizontal line across the width of a document, as you might do to separate one part of a document from another, hit the hyphen key three times and then hit Enter.
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Change Case
Instead of retyping everything to change from lower case to Title Case or to UPPERCASE, just highlight the text you want to change, click the case button, and then choose which case you want.
Insert Date
Hit Alt-Shift-D (or Control-Shift -D on a Mac) to add the date automatically. |
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Off-Site Business Services, Inc.
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