Wednesday, June 3, 2009

34 timesaving mouse tricks for Word users:
By Jody Gilbert (techrepublic.com)

Keyboard shortcuts are a mainstay for most Word users who are trying to streamline their work. Even brand-new users start slinging around [Ctrl]C and [Ctrl]V soon after mastering the intricacies of scrolling. But keyboard shortcuts are often nonintuitive and hard to remember. (What mnemonic would you use to recall that [Ctrl]E centers document text or that [Ctrl]T produces a hanging indent?)

That’s where mouse shortcuts—the unsung hero of built-in functionality—can take up the slack. Users probably know the basic moves: Right-click on an item to display a shortcut menu, double-click to select a word, triple-click to select a paragraph. But Word has quite a few additional mouse tricks up its sleeve. This overview will help you (and your users) learn some easily remembered techniques to gain quick access to a host of Word options.

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