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 Windows - Need to show someone a copy of your screen? Simply hit the Print Screen button. Unlike its name, it will not actually PRINT the screen, but it will copy it to the Windows clipboard. Open your word processor and PASTE it (Ctrl-V) into a blank document.
Internet Explorer - Is your Favorites list growing too large? Right-click on the items you want removed and choose Delete. You can also sort them alphabetically or rename them if they are too long.
Word - Do you have a long document and need to compare two sections that are pages apart? Pull down the window menu and choose Split. You now have two views into the same document!
Excel - To quickly move around in your spreadsheet, use the Ctrl key plus your arrow keys. This combination will move you to the edge of your data instantly. Also, try the HOME and END keys.
3 Worst E-Mails to Send Your Co-Workers
Intentional or not, these three blunders will not just make people roll their eyes, they will cause an all-out office war.
Every company has them: Habitual e-mail offenders. Sending official messages that are plagued with spelling errors even though the spell check button is right at the top. It is just part of the culture.
That third forwarded e-mail you got claiming you are going to have bad luck if you do not send it to everyone in the company in the next 60 seconds - Good luck keeping those out of your inbox forever. But the three methods that drive co-workers most insane are not so obvious. Here is what to watch out for:
1. Reply to All is a privilege, not a right.
Nothing infuriates people like the e-mailer who cannot stop hitting the reply to all, button like it is never going out of style. Mass e-mail is okay for sending info one way to a lot of people, but the idea backfires when people start sending Thanks, Great and Here is what
I think about all this, to 70 people they do not even know.
That does not mean it does not have its place: If there is something substantial to be added to the conversation, by all means, let everyone know. The only thing worse than a mess of reply-to-alls is another 70 messages all saying the same thing the first message already did.
2. Let us get passive-aggressive
Since so much e-mail is moving in and out of your own inbox, you want to take out an insurance policy that your recipient both receives and reads the message. So what do you do? You carbon-copy their boss on the message. (Do not deny it, you have done it yourself.)
It might get the message read, but it will also put the recipient in a pretty foul mood. Again, there is a time and a place for CC-ing.
Got a purchaser who constantly drags his feet sending approvals back? Copying his boss on the next e-mail might
be enough to straighten him out. A better bet: Let someone know your message is important. A quick phone call or in-person heads up can get the response you need. But whatever you do, do not do the following:
3. THIS IS IMPORTANT, CAN YOU TELL!?
Screaming at your co-workers does not make what you have to say more important than anything else. It does not matter if your e-mail rivals Shakespeare in eloquence. Putting everything in caps will do little more than make people cringe.
Another blunder in the same vein: flagging everything as a red-flag-priority message. If you have got no other way to communicate with someone, marking something as high-priority will get it read. Start sending out priority messages about THE KITCHEN NEEDS TO BE CLEANED and HAS ANYONE SEEN MY CELLPHONE, and you can be sure people will start calling you Chicken Little.
Want to avoid these too-common problems? The simplest solution: Skip e-mail altogether. Not only will the walk or phone call do you good, but it will give everyone including yourself a break from those chain letters.
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Good thing nobody listened?
- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
- But what ... is it good for?
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
- There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Workers are not just stealing pens and paper clips anymore
It is a fact of the working world: Employees like to grab things out of the companys supply closet for personal use. But they may be taking a lot more than most employers realize.
Almost one fifth of all employees admit to taking supplies, according to a survey by Spherion. Mostly, it is pens, paper, folders, etc. No surprise there, but here is the kicker: 8% said they have taken higher priced items like laptops, PDAs and cell phones. That is up from 3% last year.
Why do people steal? Of the people who admitted to grabbing items:
 33% said their boss said it was OK
18% said the company will never miss them, and
42% said simply that they needed the items.
Nevertheless, 76% of the surveys respondents said they thought it was wrong to take supplies. The study does not mention how many thought it was wrong but did it anyway.
The Internet is not magic. It is not run by some computer geek wizard making sure your e-mail gets where its going. Everything works on an address system. If you take a look at the end of any address, it will probably end in
dot-something, most likely, .com.
In the beginning of the Internet, any address that ended in .com was a for profit company; .net was for Internet providers; .org was for non-profits; and .gov was for government. All of these were for the USA. Foreign addresses end in a two or three letter abbreviation for the country. So an address that ends in .ca is Canadian; .uk is Britain, and so on.
Today, the requirements for having these address endings is blurring, so .org might just be a company that could not get the .com version of their name.
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