Staff Technology Training MS Office 2013 Mozilla Firefox Google Apps

1. Are you doing this?
EVERY MOUSE-POINT IS A CHORE, EVERY PROGRAM IS A PAIN

2. Keyboard Shortcuts
Every Mouse-point is a Chore
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The Windows Key “”: Between Ctrl & Alt
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+D Show Desktop
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+E Show Windows Explorer (My Computer)
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+R Show Run box: control, notepad, mspaint
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+C Show Charms (Win 8)

3. Take Control
Be a Keyboard Ninja
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Ctrl+F: Find
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Ctrl+C: Copy
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Ctrl+X: Cut (Move)
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Ctrl+V: Paste
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Ctrl+A: Select All
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Ctrl+Z: Undo
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Ctrl+MouseWheel (+/-): Zoom
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Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Task Manager
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Kill Unresponsive Process – Mozilla Firefox
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Kill Dangerous Process - ScareWare
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Restart a Process – Explorer

4. The Your Function
Fn Keys
What’s
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F1: Help
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F2: Rename highlighted File
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F3: Find, Toggle Through Finds
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F5: Refresh
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F11: Full screen

5. Easy Screen Capture
He’s No Picasso, But…
1. PrntScr
2. +R “mspaint”
3. Ctrl+V (Paste)
MSPAINT
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Notate Image
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Crop & Resize
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Change Format

6. That’s a Really Big Clipboard
K.I.S.S.
1. Ctrl+C
2. +R “notepad”
3. Ctrl+V
Notepad
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Saves text without MS Word artifacts
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Move text to Wordpress
Works with Barcode Scanner
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Offline koha

7. New Office
Every Program is a Pain
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What’s not working?
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Show All Formatting Marks (Word)
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//File/Options/Display/”Show All formatting marks”
Format Painter: Ctrl+Shift+C & Ctrl+Shift+V
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Copy font, attributes, formatting
Preserves characters, spaces, punctuation
Inserted Image Layout Options
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Wrapping Style
Move vs Fixed Position
Capitalize: Shift+F3

8. Browser
One Program to Rule Them All
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Ctrl+T: New Tab: Behold the power of tabbed browsing
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Ctrl+Shift+P: New Private Window: Don’t stay logged in
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Right Click Link/ Open in New Tab: Don’t lose a good koha search
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Right Click/ Search Google: Opens a search in a new tab
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No More Toolbars
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//Tools/Add-ons/Extensions
//Control Panel/Programs
Beware the Baddies
 Conduit, Coupon Bar
 Fake Java/Flash Updates
 Enticing offers
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Just Annoying
 Ask, Yahoo
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Piggyback off other installs
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Careful installing

9. Searching For Answers
The Secret to IT
What Stands in the Way?
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Being wrong
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Breaking Stuff
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Vetted Sources
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Time Commitment
Refining Search
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Search Tools: By Date, Reading Level, “Verbatim”
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-exclude, 200..range, w*ldcard, vacation Hawaii OR Gulf Coast
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twelve years a slave site:amazon.com
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Related:google.com

10. Cloud Storage
Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive
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Trust as much as you feel comfortable with
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Digital File Cabinet: digitize, store
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Flash Drive Replacement
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Share
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View on mobile

11. Google Suite
Personal and Professional Webmail Services
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Gmail
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m for mute, e for archive
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r for Reply, a for reply all
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l for label
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Search
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Date Range. Has Attachment
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Setup a Group Contact
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Forward All: Combine Messages
Calendar
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Click the
gear in the top right and
select Settings.
2.
Find the "Keyboard shortcuts" section
and select Keyboard shortcuts on.
3.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of
the page
Label:
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1.
Mobile’s best friend
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enter appointments
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get alerts

12. LinksGot Your Groove Back
How You
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office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
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Select “Office 2013” under “Get Started” heading
What’s New, Learn The Basics, Quick Start Guide, Video Tutorials
office.microsoft.com/en-us/training
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lifehacker.com “Power User’s Guide to Firefox”
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Tutorials
Updated Tips Covering Mozilla Firefox
Blogs
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techcrunch.com
arstechnica.com
tech@nekls.org
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Feel Free to Contact Us @ NEKLS

13. Discussion
Let’s Hug it Out
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What tech bothers you the most?
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What do you need hands on help with?
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What new tip will you try next?
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What are the barriers to becoming a better user?
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How can you help others to better their skills?