You don’t need to get distracted by the mechanics of presenting a slide show. Learn just a few shortcuts and you can focus on your audience and your message instead.

Remembering keyboard shortcuts is tough enough when you’re working on some no-pressure project at your desk. Get in front of an audience, and your mind may go totally blank. Your focus needs to be on the material you’re presenting and how you’re connecting with your audience — not on ” How do I back up to the previous slide?” That’s why it’s a good idea to pick a handful of the most useful shortcuts and make them second nature. When you find yourself delivering a presentation via the keyboard, these shortcuts will see you through.

Outlook can call your cell phone! Now, you might wonder why you’d bother, but it’s a convenient way to send phone numbers, short messages, reminders, and other important stuff to your cell phone so you can store it or share it. For instance, you might send a new client’s phone number and address to your cell phone, just in case you get lost or stuck in traffic.

Of course, you don’t have to use Outlook to send e-mail to just your own cell phone. You can send e-mail to anybody, as long as their cell phone supports Short Message Service (SMS). Fortunately, it’s a truly simple process:

Below is a list of the major carrier domains:

If you don’t know the cell phone’s service carrier, visit whitepages.com or phonenumber.com/reverse-phone, and enter the 10-digit cell phone number using the reverse lookup feature. If you’re lucky, it’ll list the carrier. If the carrier’s domain isn’t listed above, check its Web site.

Keep in mind that text messages aren’t always free. The recipient might be charged for the message.

Okay, so maybe permanent isn't the best word to describe this, but would you settle for a default setting?

Do you find you're constantly making changes to the Page Setup information in MS Word?

Are those changes the same each time?

Maybe you don't agree with the default margins or perhaps you're always making adjustments to the header/footer settings.

Whatever changes you frequently make, I bet you'd really like it if Word would propecia and ed just cooperate and keep those changes. I mean, wouldn't it be nice if you could cut out the repetitious work of making the same changes every time you start a new document?

Yes, I agree!

The key to making that wish come true has been right in front of you the whole time.

Take a look in the bottom left hand corner of the Page Setup dialogue window (File menu, Page Setup choice):

I have good news today for all you MS Word using keyboard enthusiasts!

I don't know about you, but I'm thoroughly annoyed every time I have to take my hand off the keyboard to change paragraph formatting in regards to indenting and hanging indents.

(Hanging indents occur when the paragraph's propecia and cancer first line is on the left margin and all the other lines of the paragraph are indented).

Hands off keyboard, hand on mouse, find what you need, hands back to the keyboard. Oops, be careful to place them correctly!

What a nightmare!

Is there a better solution?

Well, it just so happens that a few key combinations can make all the difference!

For mouseless indentation, give these a try:

• Ctrl + M will indent the whole paragraph one-half inch (repeat for larger indents).

• Ctrl + Shift + M will remove one-half inch of the indent (repeat to remove multiple indents).

• Ctrl + T will move the hanging indent one tab space to the right (repeat to increase the size of the indent by one tab stop each time).

• Ctrl + Shift + T will decrease the hanging indent by one tab stop (repeat to continue moving the indent to the left).

Do you add a lot of content specific words to your MS Word custom dictionary? (You do it every time you click on the Add button during a spell check).

If you're like me, there are quite a few terms that apply only when you're working on a document for work. If I'm doing something else, let's say writing an MS Office tip, having one of the algebra terms I use for work inadvertently show up via a typo would be a problem, especially since Word would approve the term based on my custom dictionary.

So, is there a way to get Word to temporarily ignore the words in your custom dictionary?

The answer is yes! I mean, why else would I ask?

Basically, what you need to know is that in Word's Options, there's a place where you can tell it to only spell check with the main dictionary (the one the program started with).

Obviously, different versions have the Word Options in different places, so let's begin with Word 2007.

• You need to go to the Office button and click on the Word Options button in the bottom right hand corner.

• Once you're there, you need to navigate to the Proofing section.

  

• Under the "When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs" section, select the "Suggest from main dictionary only" option.

• Click OK.

• First, go to the Tools menu, Options choice.

• Now, go to the Spelling and Grammar tab.

• You'll need to select the "Suggest From Main Dictionary Only" option.

• Click OK.