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Typing Spanish and International Characters in Word

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

To occasionally type Spanish characters in MS Word try the following: ñ = push Ctrl + Shift + ~ (tilde, above the Tab), release and then press n. á, é, í, ó, ú, ý = push Ctrl + ’(apostrophe, next to Enter), release and type the letter. If you had specific names or ...

Get More Control when Dragging and Dropping Files

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Dragging and dropping files to move them from or onto a USB drive or from folder to folder is not hard to do. You can control whether you move, copy, or create a shortcut, by holding the following keys at any time while dragging, but before you release the mouse ...

Finding Keyboard Shortcut Assignments in Word 2007

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Ctrl + Alt + plus (on number keypad) - turns on a cloverleaf shape; using that, click on the command you are interested in finding the keyboard shortcut to. The Customize Keyboard box will open, showing the existing shortcut under Current Keys. If no short-cut exists, you can create one ...

Word: Selecting Text with F8

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

About F8 Text can be selected with F8: push once to turn on selecting then use arrow keys or mouse to extend selection, push twice for the current word, three times for the current sentence, four for the current paragraph. Once F8 is pushed to start selecting, pointing and clicking the ...

Key Tips in Word 2007

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Key Tips = Alt What were once Keyboard Shortcuts in the MS Office programs are now Key Tips. If you're used to using the basic Ctrl+P, Ctrl+S, etc., they are going to work the same in 2007. What's been added is more convenient use of the Alt key to access the ...