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Keyboard shortcuts are a mainstay for most Word users who are trying to streamline their work. Even brand-new users start slinging around Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V soon after mastering the intricacies of scrolling. But keyboard shortcuts are often nonintuitive and hard to remember. (What mnemonic would you use to recall that Ctrl+E centers document text or that Ctrl+T produces a hanging indent?)

That’s where mouse shortcuts — the unsung hero of built-in functionality — can take up the slack. Users probably know the basic moves: Right-click on an item to display a shortcut menu, double-click to select a word, triple-click to select a paragraph. But Word has quite a few additional mouse tricks up its sleeve. This overview will help you (and your users) learn some easily remembered techniques to gain quick access to a host of Word options.

I just gotta one of the basic reason of this error. plz go through below tiny article from Windowsnetworking.com

his article explains how you can use Process Explorer, a tool from Sysinternals (now subsidiary of Microsoft), to kill the lock on files and folders.

You will get "Access Is Denied" error message when you try to delete a file or folder. This happens when file or folder is being used by processes running in the system and you do not know which process it is!

The holidays are just around the corner, and some of your IT consulting clients are going to take their laptops over the river and through the woods to grandma’s house. Many companies allow employees to take company-provided laptops and other electronics on personal trips. It makes it easier for key employees to get away from it all, without really getting a way from a thing.

What's in That E-mail?

Are you tired of opening e-mail after e-mail, only to find it's of no interest to you?

Feel like you just wasted all your time with the open, close and delete process?

You know, I'm really glad you
asked this question, because I actually just heard about Defraggler
the other day and after trying it out for myself, I knew I just had
to tell all of you about it as well! It was even mentioned on WorldStart's
message board the other day (thanks to user "yorkshire lass"),
so you know it must be worth discussing. So, what do you say we check
it out?!

Ever since I ran the tip on cleaning your printer's print heads (read it here) in the newsletter, I have been getting e-mail after e-mail about where the print heads are actually located in your printer. It seems as if a lot of you are still a little confused about that. So, I will try my best to clear that up for you today. Here we go!

Moving Backwards

Ever find yourself about to hit the Enter key in MS Excel and realize you need to move up a cell to fix something?

What did you do?

Most people go ahead and use the Enter key and then use the arrow keys (or mouse) to move back to the cell above.

This works, but doesn't it seem like there should be a more efficient way? Well, as expected, there is!

Next time you're in this predicament, try Shift + Enter instead of the plain old Enter.

A cool tip to manage your computer shutdown process automatically. You can set your computer to shutting down at any convenient time (daily, weekly and when my computer starts) when you are not there.

A simple shutdown command set your computer to close all running applications and shutdown properly after predefined time. This tip is very useful to save energy and time. After the execution of command, a small window will appear to count time of system shutdown. You can cancel this auto shutdown process using same command.

How to move more quickly in Internet Explorer?

You can enjoy Internet Explorer shortcuts keys for everything to surf the web. You can move quickly without having to move the mouse. Normally a computer user daily spending his maximum time with internet and browsing different kind of sites. But if you are familiar with internet explorer shortcuts keys, you can increase your browsing speed and can handle many online browsing restrictions very easily.

E-mail Hops

Have you ever received an error message in your e-mail program titled "E-mail Hops" or something similar to that? For example, it may say something like "too many hops." Well, if you have encountered this before, what does it mean exactly? If you don't know already, keep reading for an answer!