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We made a tiny but nifty program originally intended for productive use, but then we discovered the other side of it. It can be used to simplify tasks as well as to escape from stagnant office policy :)

 

Requirements:

1. Windows XP, Vista, 7

2. No need installation.

3. Unzip to a folder and run.

 

For:

1. Productive use

2. "Unproductive use" :)

 

Use:

Instructions

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We all know that using shortcuts when using Windows will save our time, and some shortcuts are well known and used, but some others are even more useful than the usual and are not as well known.

 

The basic hotkeyss are Ctrl + C to copy, Ctrl + X to cut and Ctrl + V to paste, they are well known but unless you are very fast typing right clicking will do the same job and for some people will be even faster. Alt + Tab is very known as well to switch from a window to another, but when we have a whole lot of them it is not as useful as it looks.

 

Here we go with some less known like for example Windows + D (Windows key is the key with the windows logo usually located between Ctrl and Alt). This key combination will minimize all windows and will show the desktop. It is very useful when you got a whole lot of open windows and you want to execute a shortcut from your desktop. If after clicking on the shortcut you want to restore all the windows to their previous state you just have to hit Windows + Shift + M.

 

Windows + E will show the windows explorer with a single combination, no need to look for the icon elsewhere and Alt + F4 will close a window without having to look for the X to close it.

 

Sometimes we will need to search for something fast, the only thing you got to do is hitting Windows + F hotkey and the search menu will open.

 

There are some other combinations which need to have IntelliType installed in your computer and will be revisited as long with other tricks of IntelliType.

 

Microsoft Excel comes with many keyboard shortcuts and experienced users use them to get their work done faster. After using Excel for a long time, we realized that some commonly performed tasks and functions take a few more keystrokes or mouse-clicks than others to perform and they do not come with shortcuts. This problem is made worse in Excel 2007 where the ribbon interface has been introduced.An office productivity software is supposed to increase our productivity in the office. Yet the design of Excel 2007 has this shortcoming. If we stick with the original keyboard shortcut system, we find our speed being limited by the pre-defined set of keyboard shortcuts. So we decided to augment the system with an external program, AutoHotKey which we have introduced earlier, to create custom hotkeys and improve the usability of Excel.

 

Charting in Microsoft Excel could become a time-consuming task especially when there is a lot of data. Adding, deleting, modifying data series or fomatting charts could keep you busy for hours. If working with Excel is your daily routine task, to save you some time, you might want to pick up the following tips about how to do certain things in Excel without opening or going through the charting dialogs.To illustrate, we use X Y (Scatter) chart to plot our sales data on Microsoft Excel 2007. Most of the tips are also applicable to other chart types or on other versions of Microsoft Excel. We suppose you already know the basics of charting.

As Windows 7 hits the retail shelves, we read more and more reviews that encourage us to spend our money and upgrade to the latest and greatest Windows from Microsoft. Surely, Windows 7 offers the finest functionality improvement, from user interface to management and control, over all previous Windows versions especially the misconceived Vista. We tested the RC and saw that the praises are true, among them, Windows 7 indeed boots faster, performs better and has a more convenient UAC.

 

Some comments in the reviews even go so far as to suggest that Windows 7 scales better than XP, and that multitasking in XP is slow and painful, whereas Windows 7 seems to multitask so much better with the new taskbar. So there is no point supporting a 10 years old OS and it's time to let go, is there? Although we may say Windows 7 is good partly because Vista is bad, we wouldn't think XP is bad just because Windows 7 is good.

We work in an online publishing and software engineering business and often find ourselves facing heavy workload, tight budget and deadlines. We learnt from experience that to survive any understaffed situations, multi-tasking is the only way to go. Now we are like others, considering upgrade or not to upgrade. We decided to publish our guide about how to multi-task with Window XP (The guide also applies to Windows Vista as well) and look for feedback that shows us we could be more productive and efficient on Windows 7.

 

You can get a full list of keyboard shortcuts in

Microsoft Help and Support site AutoHotkey Community's Comprehensive list of Windows hotkeys KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS @ AXCEL216 / MDGx Tricks of Past Weeks WINKEY SHORTCUTS @ AXCEL216 / MDGx Tricks of Past Weeks KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS @ AXCEL216 / MDGx Tricks of Past Weeks WINKEY SHORTCUTS @ AXCEL216 / MDGx Tricks of Past Weeks

You may ask, "which hotkeys should I memorize and learn first?" "which are more commonly used?"

 

We have divided the shortcut keys into three categories:

Basic - Must know. Failure to use them would result in loss of plenty of precious time. You probably have learnt all in this category. Intermediate - Learn to make yourself more productive, to get things done fast. Advanced - Optional. Awkward key combinations or rarely used keys.

Practise them at work, see how they can help you.

 

 

Windows 7 created a media frenzy with everyone waiting for so far (probably) the best designed Windows OS to ship. Most people see that it could deliver and save Microsoft some face from the Vista woe. Windows 7 carries a price tag, so we are here to help you judge whether the new features introduced in 7 are useful or not. If you look forward to upgrade to improve your work, check this article out to see if Windows 7 offers any productivity enhancement.

 

 

"Why are you doing that again?" Seeing a colleague for the 3rd time, stopped typing, highlighted a line of words and clicked two buttons in a toolbar on top to italize and underline the line when he could have just pressed Ctrl + i + u when he needed the formatting and carried on typing, and pressed the keys again to return to the original formatting. He had no time to change this habit.