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It's good to have one lightweight text editor that runs faster and consumes less memory than a word processor or an IDE because very often we just want to jot down something or make some changes real quick. What we need is something that can do more than the default windows notepad.There are a few choices of notepad replacement out there, we fancy Notepad2 for a number of reasons. Not surprisingly, Notepad2 as with other notepad replacements has its features desgined to ease programming tasks because it was created by a programmer. But many functions are useful for general text editing as well.

 

 

 

 

Keyboard shortcuts are very useful in every program or application if you want to save time. Having to take your hands away from the keyboard, grabbing the mouse, using it, clicking on the item, drop the mouse and putting your hands back to the keyboard consumes much more time than just hitting a key combination or hotkey.

 

This is the turn for MS Excel, a very useful application with some very interesting shortcuts.

 

 

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.

 

 

AutoHotkey isn't new. It has been around since '03 and has attracted for itself a sizable user community that keeps producing and sharing useful scripts and feedback to keep the program development going. It has also been featured in many popular sites before, such as MaximumPC.AutoHotkey is a multi-purpose free, open-source utility for Windows, capable of

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.

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.

 

"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.