MS Publisher tips and shortcuts - by Cochran Consulting
Let’s continue with a few more keyboard short cuts.
This time we’ll add some MS Publisher keyboard short cuts. Remember when executing short cuts, to press and hold CTRL, ALT and SHIFT keys before pressing a printable character key.
- Ctrl B - Bold text
- Ctrl U - Underline
- Ctrl I - Italic
- Ctrl = - Superscript
- Ctrl Shift = - Subscript
- Ctrl Shift K - Small caps
- Ctrl Spacebar - Will remove all style formats from the highlighted text
Tech tips - MS-Word templates
If you’re like us, you have several documents that are used all the time as a starting point or template if you will.
Did you know that you can save those documents as a MS-Word template?
That way when you want to use one of your documents as a starting point you can select it from the ‘New from template’ MS-Word menu!
How? Simple…
- Open your document in word.
- Select ‘File’ ‘Save as’. You will get the ‘Save As’ window.
Tech tips - Keyboard shortcuts
Here are quite a few keyboard shortcuts. They are specially useful to those of us that are ‘mouse challenged’ 
Ctrl B, Ctrl I, or Ctrl U apply bold, italics, or underline to highlighted text, respectively.
Ctrl P prints whatever is in an active window.
Ctrl Backspace erases an entire word at a time, instead of a letter. Ctrl up or down arrows let you scroll an entire paragraph at a time, instead of one line, and Ctrl Shift up or down arrow will select an entire paragraph.
Ctrl Enter inserts a page break in Word.
Tech tips - Help for all those ID’s and passwords!
If you’re like us, you visit many websites and have several applications that require a user id and password.
It is quite a daunting task to keep track of all these id’s and passwords.
However, a company called FutureWare has an excellent product called KeyRing.
What key ring does, is allow you to store unlimited user id’s and passwords for any and every application. It can even launch the application or website.
It’s very easy to use, easy to learn and best of all it’s reasonably priced.
You can find it here:
http://www.futurewaredc.com/keyring/
Tech tips - Easy Screen prints… For free!
Have you ever wanted to take a ’snapshot’ of something on your computer screen but didn’t know how?
Many people search the internet looking for specialized tools to accomplish this.
But if you’re like us, you’re cheap and don’t like to spend money on things you really don’t need.
So, here’s how to ’screen capture’ anything for free!
All Windows machines come with a basic handy little graphics program called Paint. It’s located in the accessories folder (Programs/Accessories).
To screen capture anything follow these instructions:
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