Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
We’ve all had the experience of copying something from a web page, pasting it into a Word document or OneNote using CTRL-V, and the formatting is all messed up compared to the existing formatting. Yes, you can right-click and hope to see the Paste Option feature to paste as plain text, but here’s an easier way to do that… use the CTRL+SHIFT+V keyboard shortcut. Here’s how that works…
Have you ever had a large number of windows and applications open on your Windows desktop, and you’d really like to hide them all to get back to your clean desktop? You can do that with a Windows shortcut… Windows Key + D.
One of my work colleagues shared this tip with me, and I thought it was so good that I’ll pass it along to you. If you press the Window key + . (the period), you’ll get a cool Emoji pop-up screen along with some other useful clickable goodness. Here’s how that works…
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to minimize all your open screens for some reason… like someone walks into your office and shouldn’t see confidential information on your monitor? There’s a simple keyboard shortcut that will do exactly that…
It’s so frustrating when you do Ctrl+C to copy some text, and when you paste it into something like an email, it copies over all the text formatting too. So you head over to Notepad to paste it there (to lose the formatting), and then you copy and paste it into something like Outlook or Teams to get just the text. Today I learned that you can use Ctrl+Shift+V (or Option+Shift+Command+V on a Mac) to paste over content without formatting! Here’s how that works…
Depending on how you prefer to work, you might want to consolidate all your system notifications into the Windows notification area (the notification icon in the Windows task bar). Now Microsoft Teams will allow you to set your notifications to go to that area instead of showing up in Teams. Here’s how that works…
