Thursday, July 9, 2009

Useful shortcuts for windows environment





BASIC SHORTCUT KEYS























































Shortcut Keys Description
Alt + FFile menu options in current program.

Alt + E

Edit options in current program

F1

Universal Help in 90% of Windows programs.

Ctrl + A


Select all text.

Ctrl + X

Cut selected item.

Shift + Del


Cut selected item.

Ctrl + C


Copy selected item.


Ctrl + Ins


Copy selected item



Ctrl + V


Paste

Shift + Ins


Paste


Home


Goes to beginning of current line.


Ctrl + Home


Goes to beginning of document.


End

Goes to end of current line.


Ctrl + End


Goes to end of document.

Shift + Home

Highlights from current position to beginning of line.


Shift + End

Highlights from current position to end of line.


Ctrl + Left arrow

Moves one word to the left at a time.

Ctrl + Right arrow


Moves one word to the right at a time.


MICROSOFT WINDOWS SHORTCUT KEYS














































































Shortcut Keys


Operating System

Description

Alt + Tab

3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP

Switch between open applications.

Alt + Shift + Tab


3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP

Switch backwards between open applications.

Alt +Print Screen

3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP

Create ascreen shot
only for the program you are currently in.

Ctrl + Esc

3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP

Switch Between open applications on taskbar.

F2

3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP

Renames selected Icon

F3

3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP


Starts find from desktop


F4

3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP

Opens the drive selection when browsing.

F5





3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





Refresh Contents




Alt + F4






3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP




Closes Current open program.





Ctrl + F4






3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





Closes Window in Program





Ctrl + (the '+' key on the

keypad)






3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





Automatically adjust the width's of all the columns in Windows
explorer





Alt + Enter






3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





Opens properties window of Selected icon or program.





Shift + F10






3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





Simulates right click on selected item.





Shift + Del







3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





Delete programs/files without throwing into the

recycle bin.





Holding Shift











3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP






Boot safe mode or by pass system files.





Holding Shift






3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP





When putting in an audio CD will prevent CD Player from playing.





WINDOWS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
























































Shortcut Keys




Description





WINKEY + D




Minimizes all windows and returns the user to the desktop



WINKEY + M





Minimizes all windows.





WINKEY + SHIFT + M





Undo the minimize.





WINKEY + E





Open Microsoft Explorer.





WINKEY + Tab





Cycle through open programs through the taskbar




WINKEY + F





Display the Windows Search / Find feature.





WINKEY +CTRL+ F





Display the search for computers window.





WINKEY + F1





Display the Microsoft Windows help.





WINKEY + R





Open the run window.





WINKEY + Pause / Break key





Open the system properties window.





WINKEY + U





Open Utility Manager.





WINKEY + L





Lock the computer (Windows XP and above only).






EXCEL SHORTCUT KEYS

































































































































Shortcut Keys




Description





F7





Spell check selected text and or document.





F11





Create chart.





Ctrl + Shift + ;





Enter the current time





Ctrl + ;





Enter the current date





Alt + Shift + F1





Insert New Worksheet





Shift + F3





Open the Excel formula window.





Shift + F5





Bring up search box.





Ctrl + A





Select all contents of the worksheet.





Ctrl + B





Bold highlighted selection.





Ctrl + I





Italic highlighted selection.





Ctrl + K





Insert link.





Ctrl + U





Underline highlighted selection.





Ctrl + 5





Strikethrough highlighted selection.





Ctrl + P





Bring up the print dialog box to begin printing.





Ctrl + Z





Undo last action.





Ctrl + F9





Minimize current window.





Ctrl + F10





Maximize currently selected window.





Ctrl + F6





Switch between open workbooks / windows.





Ctrl + Page up





Move between Excel work sheets in the same Excel document.





Ctrl + Page down





Move between Excel work sheets in the same Excel document.





Ctrl + Tab





Move between Two or more open Excel files.





Ctrl + Shift + !





Format number in comma format.





Ctrl + Shift + $





Format number in currency format.





Ctrl + Shift + #





Format number in date format.





Ctrl + Shift + %





Format number in percentage format.





Ctrl + Shift + ^




Format number in scientific format.



Ctrl + Shift + @





Format number in time format.





Ctrl + Arrow key





Move to next section of text.





Ctrl + Space





Select entire
column.





Shift + Space





Select entire row.






WORD SHORTCUT KEYS



































































































































































































Shortcut Keys





Description





Ctrl + A





Select all contents of the page.





Ctrl + B





Bold highlighted selection.





Ctrl + C





Copy selected text.





Ctrl + X





Cut selected text.





Ctrl + P





Open the print window.





Ctrl + F





Open find box.





Ctrl + I





Italic highlighted selection.





Ctrl + K





Insert link.





Ctrl + U





Underline highlighted selection.





Ctrl + V





Paste.





Ctrl + Y





Repeat the last action performed.





Ctrl + Z





Undo last action.





Ctrl + L





Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.





Ctrl + E





Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen.





Ctrl + R





Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.





Ctrl + M





Indent the paragraph.





Ctrl + Shift + F





Change the font.





Ctrl + Shift + >





Increase selected font +1.





Ctrl + ]





Increase selected font +1.





Ctrl + Shift + <





Decrease selected font -1.





Ctrl + [





Decrease selected font -1.





Ctrl + Shift + *





View or hide non printing characters.





Ctrl + <left arrow>





Moves one word to the left.





Ctrl + <right arrow>





Moves one word to the right.





Ctrl + <up arrow>





Moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph.





Ctrl + <down arrow>





Moves to the end of the paragraph.





Ctrl + Del





Deletes word to right of cursor.





Ctrl + Backspace





Deletes word to left of cursor.





Ctrl + End





Moves the cursor to the end of the document.





Ctrl + Home





Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document.





Ctrl + Spacebar





Reset highlighted text to the default font.





Ctrl + 1





Single-space lines.





Ctrl + 2





Double-space lines.





Ctrl + 5





1.5-line spacing.





Ctrl + Alt + 1





Changes text to heading 1.





Ctrl + Alt + 2





Changes text to heading 2.





Ctrl + Alt + 3





Changes text to heading 3.





F1





Open Help.





Shift + F3





Change the case of the selected text.





Shift + Insert





Paste.





F4





Repeat the last action performed (2000+)





F5





Open goto window.





F7





Spell check selected text and or document.





Shift + F7





Activate the thesaurus.





F12





Save as.





Shift + F12





Save




Wednesday, July 8, 2009

How to connect microsoft outlook data file

Sorry folks I was quite bussy, writing this blog after a while. This article is about setting data file of microsoft outlook after a fresh installation or after moving to other computer. I will be going through it quickly hopefully its informative.


Step 1
Open your Microsoft Outlook . Skip the new account setup.




STEP 2

go to tools >> options







STEP 3
Click Data files under Mail Setup





STEP 4
go to the path of data file and click ok

Congralutations you are done uploading now set it to default using the same window.
If you have more than 1 file follow the same procedure.
if u want the default file to be deleted it will be done using the same procedure.
YEP ITS SO SIMPLE



Sunday, July 5, 2009

Display multiple clocks

With huge popularity of social websites there is huge possibility that you have found some friends which are spread across the planet? With Windows Vista, you can display up to 3 clocks, each representing a different time zone. You know immediately what time is in your friend's country. This can help you to know in what time you can contact your friend. Of course these clocks can also have other purpose but this with social website was a simple example. To display multiple clocks in windows vista fallow steps below:

1. In Windows Vista, click the clock in the notification area, right of the taskbar.
2. The clock and a complete schedule appear. Click Change settings of the date and time.
3. Open Additional Clocks tab.
4. Then check the Show this clock, select a new time zone and then give a name to the clock.
5. You can then repeat the operation for a third clock. Click OK when you are finished.
6. Now when you spend a few moments with mouse pointer on the clock your other clocks will be displayed.
7. The time your friends will also be displayed after double clicking the clock

Ready Boost for windows Vista

What is ReadyBoost and what is SuperFetch?Microsoft introduces, using Windows, these new techniques, which have to speed up your computer which is used for daily usage.
How do these technologies work?Do you really get a super system when you extend the memory using a USB stick?The memory in computers increased dramatically since a few years ago. This is logical because there is nothing what makes a computer more stable and faster than extra memory. Microsoft wants to use that new memory maximum and equipped Windows Vista with a few techniques which have to take care of this.
The memory manager of Windows Vista can change the grouping of the memory any time, which decreases the chance of overloading a part of the memory. Microsoft calls this 'dynamic kernel address space'.
The possibility to assign memory dynamically is also used to decide which data have to be loaded into the memory and which data is mend for the virtual memory. Previous version of Microsft windows did not make any difference between data which is used much and which is used less. Windows Vista does it on another way. SuperFetch doesn't look at the data which is unused the longest, but it predicts which data will be needed as first again and keeps this data stored in the memory.If there will be any free space in the RAM-memory then SuperFetch will fill these spaces with the data of which it predicts it will be needed as first again.