Word: AutoSave Saves You Time
Losing files = losing time
Ever lose a document you were just working on? It’s absolute frustrating and a time-waster.
If you’re old school, this has happened to you and you’ve gotten in the habit of hitting Ctrl-S periodically. But if you want a real simple way, like so simple you don’t even have to think it, then you should adjust your settings in the Office settings.
In Word 2010, this is where you find it. Go to the File tab, then click on Options on the lower left.
In the Word Options tab that opens, click on Save and you’ll see the following window:
First, check the Save AutoRecover information. The default is to save a version every 10 minutes. You can adjust that to suit your comfort zone.
Second, when you’re working in Word, it saves a temporary version of your document. If Word were to close inadvertently, that temp file will be located in that location you see in that AutoRecover file location. Remember that location or know to locate that section here.
Third, while you’re here, note you can change where Word saves your documents by Default. In case you want all files to save to a different location, like your DropBox , Magic Briefcase, or server location.
After you make changes, hit OK and you’re all set.
Word: Link Speed
Here’s a quick shortcut for adding links to your Word document:
Here’s my new favorite shortcut: Ctrl+K, which lets you add a hyperlink quickly.
Just select any text, and then press the Ctrl and K keys at the same time. A dialogue box opens where you can type a link.
Who needs right-click?!?
Outlook: Unsend That Email
Oops! Happens to the best of us. Hit send before you meant to and need to recall that message?
Here’s how:
Recall a message in Outlook 2003
Outlook: 10 Outlook Shortcuts
Ten Outlook keyboard shortcuts
- Switch between Mail, Calendar, and Contacts
- Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3: (Mail is Ctrl+1, Calendar is Ctrl+2, and Contacts is Ctrl+3)
- Create a meeting request
- Ctrl+Shift+ Q
- Move a message from one folder to another
- Ctrl+Shift+V
- Go to the Inbox folder
- Ctrl+Shift+I
- Toggle between ALL CAPS, all lowercase, and Sentence Caps
- Shift+F3 (This works in Word and when Word is your email editor.)
- Create a bulleted list
- Ctrl+Shift+L (This works in Word and when Word is your email editor.)
- In Calendar, go to the same day the previous/following week
- Alt+Arrow Up (previous) Alt+Arrow Down (following)
- Open the Address Book
- Ctrl+Shift+B
- Responding to messages
- Ctrl+R (Reply); Ctrl+Shift+R (Reply All); Forward (Ctrl+F)
- Send a message
- Alt+S (Note: Be careful with this one; your fingers learn it VERY quickly and if you have any hot-headedness inside you, you may find that you’re blasting out messages faster than you’re really thinking about them…)
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