Microsoft Word 2016: a rant in ten parts
... me, and how much I rely on quick access to styles. Keyboard shortcuts are my friends, and software developers who remove shortcuts I use ...
Switching languages on the Mac
... bought my MacBook Pro years ago, I got it with the French keyboard. (That's an option here in Canada, with its two official languages.) ... text read to me, I select the text and hit a keyboard shortcut. While having, say, French text read back in an English accent may ...
Easily putting boilerplate text in email
... time ago, I blogged about my usage of keyboard shortcuts to automate phrases, paragraphs, even entire messages that I often ... text quickly and efficiently. I set up my shortcuts to work across all software on my computer (well, almost all software ...
Remove formatting from copied text
... address bar. Select all (from the Edit menu or the keyboard shortcut, which appears in the Edit menu). Copy the text. Paste the text ...
Screen shots/capture made quick and easy
... or Mac (but mostly Mac). Full screen capture on a Mac The keyboard shortcut Cmd-Shift-3 takes a picture of your whole screen and deposits the ...
Are you running too many applications?
... dock (Mac) or toolbar (Windows) to do this, but I prefer a keyboard shortcut that both computer platforms offer. On a Mac, hold down the Cmd key ...
Why writers should use mind maps
... to speed up my work, and that’s what this is. It uses keyboard shortcuts I’m used to. The color coding is great. The maps are saved both ...
My relationship with Getting Things Done
... even assign one of Daylite's nine "assignable" keyboard shortcuts to this list. This lets me examine what fell through the ... Daylite is running in the background, new tasks are just a keyboard shortcut away. On second thought, maybe I need to add a “waiting ...
Thoughts on machine transcription
... work with the dedicated media control buttons on my Mac keyboard, but it doesn't. (This is a personal preference - I find I work faster ... pointer.) Kofman sent me a screen shot of these keyboard shortcuts from the Help menu. (Yes, it's a little shameful for a technical ...
Revising documents using markup
... known as markup. In Microsoft Word, I use the Cmd-Shift-E keyboard shortcut to automatically track deletions and additions. There's no default ...