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Quickly Reply to an E-Mail in Outlook

gavola — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:00:06 +0000

Something reading email’s can be a pain. If you, like me, receive a lot of them a day, sometimes you just want use your keyboard to scroll through them. However once you reach an email that you want to reply to – I always have to reach for my mouse and click the Reply button in Outlook. It may seem like a small task – but we can make it simpler and faster.

In Outlook – the bar at the top of the window – gives you a nice hint on how to quickly perform functions all from the comfort of your keyboard.

What's all those underlined characters mean?

Any time you have an email highligted in Outlook – you can hold down the ALT button and type any character that is underlined to perform that action. With that said – here are some quick handy short-cuts to reply in Outlook:

Reply = ALT + R

Reply All = ALT + L

Forward = ALT + W

New Message = ALT + N

This will significant increase your productivity and make your email experience in Outlook a much faster one!

Minimize To Desktop With Ease

gavola — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:41:44 +0000

Looking at something that you weren’t supposed to be looking at at work? Want a quicker way to minimize everything you have to just show your desktop? Well now – you can with one simple shortcut.

With all your windows up – just press Windows Key + D – and your windows will magically minimize to the task bar. Sometimes this is just easier than mousing over the “Show Desktop” button. This tip works in any version of Windows.

Hopefully this will save you some time and make you organize your desktop better!

Picture from kimberlyjennery

Changing Uppercase to Lower Case Quickly

gavola — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:29:41 +0000

Do you ever get annoyed with people that always type in CAPITAL letters? Ever receive an email from a person that you needed to forward to someone else but were embarrassed because it was all in CAPS? Well if your using a Windows based computer in either Word or Outlook – you can now quickly change the capitalization with one easy click. Just highlight the text that you want to change, and hold down SHIFT and press F3. This change all capital letters to lowercase. If you keep holding SHIFT and press F3 – it will toggle you through some options including only capitalizing the first letter of the word. Although it only works in Microsoft Word and Outlook – it’s still a time saving short-cut tool that will save you time and energy.