Category Archives: Windows 7

Windows: Stop the Keyboard From (Suddenly) Changing Languages on You

If you ever use Excel and especially Excel on a laptop – you probably find that, from time to time, certain characters you type all of a sudden start showing up as French characters.

 

Here’s WHY and what to do about it.

 

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Windows 10: Keyboard shortcuts

Sometimes reaching over to grab the mouse, after you’ve been typing, is just too darn much work! Not to mention too slow.

 

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Windows: More than Just a Calculator

#1: Calculator – It does so much more than you thought it did!

 

You can start up the Calculator by clicking inside the Windows’ TYPE HERE TO SEARCH box at the bottom of your screen – and typing in the first few characters of the word calculator.

 

The calculator has been part of the Windows repertoire for years, but it is actually over a dozen calculators rolled into one.

 

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Windows 10: Two nifty shortcuts

Tip #1: Short and sweet

We often work on multiple documents (and programs, of course) at once.
The next time you need to open another (second, third, etc) document in a program (like Word or Excel) that is already running…

 

Tip #2 (better!): Quickly jumping between folders/drives when Opening or Saving File

If you are tired of having to maneuver between various drives and folders when in File Explorer or when using the OPEN or SAVE AS windows in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access – add your most-used folders to the QUICK ACCESS list…

 

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Windows: The French (keyboard) must be stopped!

In an earlier tip, I explained that you can accidentally change your keyboard language by pressing the [CTRL][SHFT] keyboard combination. Excel users (well, efficient Excel users) are more likely to do this because the keyboard shortcut for selecting to the very bottom of a range of data in Excel is [CTRL][SHFT] ↓

 

Since [CTRL][SHFT] caused the French characters to start appearing (you get an é when you type a ? mark) that same key combination ([CTRL][SHFT]) pressed once (if you have two keyboard languages installed on your computer) or twice (if you have three keyboard languages installed) can fix the problem – temporarily.

 

But who wants to have to keep fixing this issue manually?

 

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