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Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks

by Paul Blasgen on December 14th, 2009

In this blog, we will weekly list Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks. If you have access to contributing to this blog, and you have some short tips of your own to mention feel free to contribute

12/15/2009
Tip of the week: In Microsoft Excel (any version) to quickly create a chart, select your data and press the F11 function key. This will create an autochart which you can change later.

Tip of the week (12/21/09): In Microsoft Word (any version) to quickly select a word, double-click on it.

Tip of the week (1/4/10): In Microsoft Word (any version) to quickly select a paragraph, triple-click on it.

Tip of the week (1/11/10): To quickly access Help in most programs press the F1 funtion key

Tip of the week (1/18/10): In most PC programs Ctrl+A means Select All

Tip of the week (1/25/10): In Word (any version) to clickly select an entire sentence, hover your mouse over a sentence, hold down the Ctrl key and click once.

Tip of the week (2/1/10): In most PC programs Ctrl+Z means Undo.

Tip of the week (2/8/10): In most PC programs Ctrl+C means Copy.

Tip of the week (2/15/10): In most PC programs Ctrl+X is a shortcut for Cut.

Tip of the week (2/22/10): In most PC programs Ctrl+V is a shortcut for Paste.

Tip of the week (3/1/10): In most PC programs Ctrl+O is a shortcut to the Open dialog.

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