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As you probably know, Gmail is the most popular email service on the planet.
In fact, every month over a billion people worldwide use Gmail to send and receive gazillions of emails.
There are several reasons for Gmail’s popularity, one of which is its dizzying array of features and integrated tools.
Those tools include dozens of handy keyboard shortcuts for working with messages, using the editor and a whole lot more. [Read more…]
Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m impatient. Well, at least when it comes to getting things done on my computer.
After all, there are only so many hours in the day, right?
With that in mind, one of the best tips I’ve learned over the years is that the keyboard is often a lot faster and more efficient than the mouse.
I used to get frustrated at having to click through multiple layers of menus, click on the program I want to run and then scroll through a couple hundred filenames until I find the specific file I need to work with.
But these days in most cases I can just skip the mouse altogether except for one final click and be working with my file in mere seconds. Here’s how it’s done: [Read more…]
Have you ever noticed that you tend to do many of the same things over and over when using your computer?
Many of those repetitive tasks have keyboard shortcuts that can save you a ton of time once you get used to using them.
I realize that it’s easy to take the keyboard for granted in our mouse-centric world, but it really does help to know a few keyboard shortcuts.
This is especially true if you do a lot of typing and your fingers are almost always on the keyboard anyway.
Here are just a few of the keyboard shortcuts that I use every day: [Read more…]
Have you ever needed to select all the text and images on a web page or other document at the same time?
How about all the cells in spreadsheet or all the data contained in an input box?
Well, there are several ways to select everything at once, but the fastest and simplest way on a Windows PC is to use the handy keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A.
Mac users can press Command+A to do the same thing.
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The Windows Desktop in every version of Microsoft Windows since Win 95 has included a “My Computer” icon which opened the handy “Windows Explorer” window when you clicked on it.
Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 still have the “My Computer” icon, but it’s now called “This PC”. And “Windows Explorer” is now called “File Explorer”.
But even though their names have changed, these features still work in much the same way, and they are still two of the most-used components of Windows.
In fact, most Windows users take advantage of the File Explorer tool every day.