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Jody Gilbert has been writing and editing technical articles for the past 20 years, including a stint with The Cobb Group/ZD Journals. In 1998, she won Ziff-Davis' Chairman's Circle Award for Editorial Excellence for her work as author of several Microsoft Office how-to publications. Jody's articles focus on business software,...- more about Jody Gilbert »
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- Create a Strikethrough shortcut in Word
- Applying the Strikethrough format to text in a Word document requires a trip to the Font dialog box -- which will get old in a hurry, if you use that format a lot. Taking a moment now to create a keyboard shortcut will provide a big efficiency payoff. by Jody...
- Tags: Dialog Box, Keyboard Shortcut, Strikethrough, Word 2007 Word 2007, Microsoft Word, Keyboards, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Create a Strikethrough shortcut in Word
- Applying the Strikethrough format to text in a Word document requires a trip to the Font dialog box -- which will get old in a hurry, if you use that format a lot. Taking a moment now to create a keyboard shortcut will provide a big efficiency payoff.This download is...
- Tags: Jody Gilbert, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Keyboards, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- Download resources 2008-07-15
- Seven keyboard shortcuts to help make your PowerPoint slide shows glitch-free
- You don't need to get distracted by the mechanics of presenting a slide show. Learn just a few shortcuts and you can focus on your audience and your message instead. by Jody Gilbert
- Tags: Slideshow, Microsoft PowerPoint, Keyboard Shortcut, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
- These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we're in a hurry, quickly dashing off e-mails with typos, grammatical shortcuts (I'm being kind here), and that breezy, e.e. cummings, no-caps look. It's expected. It's no big deal. But other times, we try...
- Tags: Outage, Manufacturing, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- 10+ keyboard shortcuts to speed Firefox tasks
- You can shave significant time off your various viewing and navigational tasks in Firefox if you know a handful of keyboard shortcuts. A quick toggle (say, the History pane or Downloads dialog) or a speedy key combo that changes text size or jumps to your Home page is almost always...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Keyboard Shortcut, WWW, Ctrl, Web Browsers, Keyboards, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- 10+ essential (and free) Windows applications
- George Ou just put together a list of free Windows apps in his Real World IT blog -- the ones he installs on every new Windows computer he builds. Along with their essential functionality, he says they're "well-behaved installers and uninstallers" -- no crashing your computer of gunking things up....
- Tags: Windows Application, List, App, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- 10 keyboard shortcuts for working with PowerPoint slides
- Creating a PowerPoint presentation means juggling a lot of pieces -- moving, formatting, and editing objects such as AutoShapes, pictures, text boxes, and the slides themselves. It's not always immediately apparent how to select one of these items or how to navigate within it. Here are a few indispensable keyboard...
- Tags: Box, Microsoft PowerPoint, Keyboard Shortcut, Object, Ctrl, Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Peripherals, Office Suites, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- 10+ lesser-known shortcuts for formatting Word text
- Your users probably have a few favorite keyboard shortcuts for formatting text -- like Ctrl + B for applying boldface, Ctrl + I for applying italics, Ctrl + U for underlining, and maybe Ctrl + L to left-align text. But Word provides buttons for those tasks on the Formatting toolbar,...
- Tags: Keyboard Shortcut, Ctrl, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- 10 signs that you aren't cut out to be a telecommuter
- I've been telecommuting off and on for about 12 years, mainly because I insist on living in the middle of nowhere, which makes the drive to any regional office facility tiresome, inefficient, and expensive. Also, I'm a hermit, so that works out well for all concerned. When...
- Tags: Connectivity, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Best of 2007: 10 Things
- There's something just a little bizarre about putting together a 10 Things piece consisting of the year's Top Ten 10 Things pieces. It seems sort of, I don't know, recursive, or something. But some excellent, practical, and insightful lists have rolled through TechRepublic during 2007, and this seems like a...
- Tags: Job, Certification, Information Technology, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Quality, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- 10 things you should know about TechRepublic's 10 Things blog submission tool
- One of the most popular formats on TechRepublic is the simple 10 Things model. (You probably know that... you're here, right?) Now we want to cast the 10 Things net a bit wider so that we can tap into the expertise, knowledge, and counting skills of TechRepublic members. ...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Blog, List, Tool, Blogging, Professional Development, Help Desk, Internet, Career, It Operations, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- 76 keyboard shortcuts for moving faster in Windows Vista
- Windows Vista offers a healthy assortment of keyboard shortcuts, which can often be significantly more efficient than mousing around to perform everyday chores. Scott Lowe has put together a PFD of the most useful shortcuts in Vista. Organized according to where you use them (desktop, Sidebar, etc.), the list encompasses...
- Tags: Keyboard, Microsoft Windows Vista, Keyboard Shortcut, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Find it in Word 2007: Change Case
- Word's Change Case feature has long been one of its handiest devices. It's not smart enough to apply true title case where articles and prepositions are left uncapitalized, but it will still save you a significant amount of time. So now that you're using Word 2007, how...
- Tags: Microsoft Word 2007, Dialog Box, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- 10+ Windows XP keyboard shortcuts to speed everyday tasks
- How expansive is your repertoire of Windows XP keyboard shortcuts? A lot of users learn a handful of shortcuts but turn their backs on a host of other ones that could come in handy. Check out the selection of shortcuts below and see if there aren't a couple you didn't...
- Tags: Menu, Item, Keyboard Shortcut, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- 10 underrated business books
- A few weeks ago, I pointed to a downloadable list of business books that may be overrated. The list came from a BNET feature package on business books, and it included an interesting assortment of titles, such as In Search of Excellence and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People....
- Tags: Business Book, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- How do I... Set my own default file locations in Word 2007?
- Out of the box, Word 2007 is set to save documents to My Documents in Windows XP and to your Documents folder in Windows Vista. User templates are stored by default in C:Documents And Settings<Username>Application DataMicrosoftTemplates in XP and in C:Users<Username>AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWord in Vista. If these locations work...
- Tags: Microsoft Word 2007, Dialog Box, OK, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- 10+ tips for boosting your Word 2007 productivity
- If your users have recently made the jump to Word 2007 -- or an upgrade is just around the corner -- you could be in for a lot of hand-holding. We've put together a collection of tips from our Office Suite newsletter that will help them acclimate to Word's new...
- Tags: Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- 10+ keyboard shortcuts for speeding your work with Excel data
- Shortcuts can save you a considerable amount of time when you're entering or modifying data in a worksheet -- but only if you can remember them. This list offers a quick reminder of some old standbys, along with a few shortcuts that are less well known but equally useful. ...
- Tags: Keyboard, Microsoft Excel, Keyboard Shortcut, Cell, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- 10+ tips for working faster with Word tables
- Word tables have a million handy uses, from organizing tabular data to building an attractive page layout. Unfortunately, they don't always act in predictable ways, and users have to waste time puzzling over dialog box options and toolbar choices. The following list of pointers isn't intended to...
- Tags: Column, Cell, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- 10 things you can do to keep your IT job from taking over your life
- IT professionals don't hold a monopoly on working excessively long hours or having job responsibilities cast a shadow over their personal lives. But for many reasons, it's a field that invites long hours, persistent worries, and a reluctance -- or inability -- to mentally clock out when the workday should...
- Tags: Job, Information Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
