From Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 : Chronological Evolution
Have you ever wondered that how Windows evolved to such a beauty?
How was windows when it was first introduced and how it all improved? The Windows 7, Latest masterpiece by Microsoft offers a rich experience to users with its eye-candy animations and solid programming.
To have a peak at the evolution of Windows with time, read more. http://techtified.com/2009/08/from-windows-1–0-to-windows-7-chronological-evolution/
Categories: Microsoft Tags: animations, beauty, chronological evolution, eye candy, masterpiece, microsoft, rich experience, windows 1 0, windows evolution
Move around your system faster
One question I get asked a lot in my field is how do I move around so fast on the PC. Without meaning to, I seem to make people feel like they are moving in slow motion when I am opening, closing, copying, pasting, etc.
To be honest, I can type very quickly. But in addition, I know a lot of shortcut keys for the common applications we use. This comes from my time as a bench tech many years ago. In the days of serial and bus mice, we didn’t always have users bring in their mice for their system when they dropped them off. Sometimes we had a spare mouse, but now always. So we went to plan B. Keyboard commands.
I have decided that not only are they helpful for IT staff that can be in a hurry and dragging the mouse around does slow us down sometimes. But it can make users that have to do a lot of these common functions over and over again more efficient. Isn’t that the point of computers? I am including an overall common Office products PDF also a seperate on for each: Excel, Outlook and Word. I have even put together some helpful key commands for Windows. These are not all inclusive, and if you know of anymore that you use, please let me know.
Common Office Shortcuts (83.7 KiB, 153 hits)
Common Excel Shortcuts (51.9 KiB, 139 hits)
Common Outlook Shortcuts (52.5 KiB, 162 hits)
Common Word Shortcuts (51.2 KiB, 157 hits)
Common Windows Shortcuts (51.8 KiB, 199 hits)
Categories: Microsoft Office Tags: bench, bus mice, Download, Efficient, Excel, excel outlook, Helpful Hints, hurry, keyboard commands, one question, Outlook, plan b, seperate, shortcut keys, slow motion, WINDOWS, word
Export to Excel
One of the nice things of working IT Support is that I get to learn of new features I would not normally use. This actually occurred the other day with a function the Microsoft Excel adds.
We have all looked at websites that has rows and rows of data that you would like to be able to use a different sort (Fantasy Football Stats come to mind) or even your Corporate Intranet sites that use a lot of tables for data.
Since I never knew it was there I never looked for it, but if you are on a web page and would like to export, you can right click on the web page and when you get the drop down menu, look for the Export to Excel item (usually toward the bottom).
If you do not have the option, there is a registry fix that I have found on the Winhelponline
website that is extremly helpful and keeps you from having to manually edit the registry.
REG Files
To automate the above setting, download the fileand save to Desktop. Unzip and run the appropriate REG file (exporttoexcel07.reg or exporttoexcel03.reg) for the version of Microsoft Excel installed. To remove the option, run the file undo.reg.
Export to Excel Fix (971 bytes, 159 hits)
The full article can be found here.
Categories: Microsoft Office Tags: desktop, drop down menu, Export, exporttoexcel, fantasy football, fix, football stats, help desk, microsoft, microsoft excel, new features, nice things, REG, REG Files, registry, unzip, Web, web page
