This document provides tips and tricks for using computers more efficiently. It discusses how to streamline browser use, search more effectively, optimize window management, use basic editing shortcuts, and format images. Specific tips include using tabbed browsing, minimizing all windows at once, cycling between windows, and using the snipping tool to capture screenshots.

2. Tips and tricks that will
streamline your
computer-use and
impress your
friends and colleagues.

3. This is me.

4. Find me here.
www.mariahandersen.com
www.StudyingSocialMedia.com
www.TeachingCollegeMath.com

5. The Secret Technology Club
The Internet
Browsers
Search
Windows
Editing
Images

6. The Code
HTML = Hypertext Markup Language

7. WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get

8. WYSIWYG / HTML Toggle

9. What’s in a name?
Website
Name of Website

10. Website vs. URL
Website:
www.studyingsocialmedia.com
URL:
http://www.studyingsocialmedia.com

11. Website

12. Sends reader to collection of webpages

13. Webpage

14. Sends reader to specific page

15. Site vs. Hyperlink
Here is the website I want you to go
to: www.studyingsocialmedia.com
The website I want you to go to is
Studying Social Media.

16. Site vs. Hyperlink
Here is the website I want you to go
to: www.studyingsocialmedia.com
Site
The website I want you to go to is
Studying Social Media.
Hyperlink

17. Creating a Hyperlink
[select/highlight the text first]

18. Creating a Hyperlink
[select/highlight the text first]

19. Creating a Hyperlink
[then click the hyperlink button]

20. Pay attention! This one needs a URL.

21. This one has http:// already.

22. That link doesn’t work!
http://http://www.studyingsocialmedia.com
https://www.studyingsocialmedia.com
Why not?

23. Remove the orange part.
http://http://www.studyingsocialmedia.com
https://www.studyingsocialmedia.com

24. Broken YouTube Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0E
nhXn5boM&feature=g-vrec&context
=G294db32RVAAAAAAAAAg
[Look for the CORE of the Link]

25. Broken YouTube Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0E
nhXn5boM&feature=g-vrec&context
=G294db32RVAAAAAAAAAg
[reduce the URL to the orange part, the
part before the first & and it will work]

26. Shorten a URL
Convert
http://www.studyingsocialmedia.com/2012/0
2/01/studying-social-media-saving-the-
pacific-northwest-tree-octopus-and-learning-
about-whales-in-lake-michigan/
To http://bit.ly/A67a6g

27. http://www.studyingsocialmedia.com/2012/
02/01/studying-social-media-saving-the-
pacific-northwest-tree-octopus-and-
learning-about-whales-in-lake-michigan/
http://bit.ly/A67a6g

28. The Secret Technology Club
The Internet
Browsers
Search
Windows
Editing
Images

29. Try Another Browser
When a website
does not appear
to be working
properly, don’t
call tech
support, you
should always
(always) try
another browser
first.
http://www.webdesignhot.com/free-icon/free-web-browser-icons/

30. Tabs

31. Windows

32. Tabs are Easier to Manage
Add a new
(empty) tab
CTRL-T CMD-T

33. Right-click on Hyperlinks
(Command-click on a Mac)

34. Tab Drag
(click, hold, and drag it out onto the desktop)
(or drag it back)
Does not work
in some
browsers!

35. Where did it go?
Close Everything
Close the Tab

36. Maximize / Minimize
Maximize Screen or
Restore Partial Screen
Minimizes Screen
to Toolbar

37. Magnify the Page Text
(PC: Ctrl with +)
(Mac: Cmd with +)

38. Shrink the Page Text
(PC: Ctrl with -)
(Mac: Cmd with -)

39. Find a word or phrase
PC: Ctrl with F
Mac: Cmd with F
Opens a search
box in just about
EVERY software
program

40. Search from the Address Bar
(does not work in all web browsers)

41. Customize your Browser
Google Extensions
Add-ons for Firefox
Internet Explorer Plugins

43. Bitly

44. The Secret Technology Club
The Internet
Browsers
Search
Windows
Editing
Images

45. Word Order Matters
Slight changes yield different results.

46. Quotes for Exact Phrase

47. Quotes for Exact Spelling

48. Use autofill search results
(use your arrow key, then press enter)

49. Exclude a Word from Search
(use a minus in front of the word – no space!)

50. Search within a Website
(write website: first, then your search)

51. Wildcards
(use a * to replace “some word”)

52. Use keywords

53. Search calculates!
(no need to open the Calculator program)

54. Look at Personal Results
(people in your social networks have shared these)

55. Look at Personal Results
(people in your social networks have shared these)

56. Search without Personalization
(Remove the filter bubble: DuckDuckGo)

57. Compare a few searches
(you’ll see)

58. Search-Cube.com

59. Search-cube.com
(hover mouse over image to see source site)

60. The Secret Technology Club
The Internet
Browsers
Search
Windows
Editing
Images

61. Embrace the WIN button!
(The WINDOWS button opens the START menu)

62. Search from START

63. Search for Files
When you see the
file show up on the
list, just click on it
with your mouse
OR use the arrow
keys to move up
and down the list.

64. Search for Programs
Type the keyword and press
enter to launch program.

65. Minimize EVERYTHING
(WIN + M)
Maybe you don’t want someone who just
walked in to see sensitive information on your screen.
(or, maybe you were shopping at Zappos)

66. Minimize most everything
Pick up the window you want to keep
with your mouse (as if you were going
to move it) and then shake it. Yes,
use your mouse to rapidly shake it
back and forth. Poof!
(okay, that only works in Windows 7
– sorry to other versions!)

67. Cycle Between Windows
WIN + TAB
To try this, first open
a bunch of windows!
Hold down WIN and
press TAB. Each
time you press TAB
you should see a
different window
cycle to the front.
When you see the
window you want on
top, let go of WIN. http://martinjwells.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/is-vista-worth-it/

68. Cycle Between Windows
ALT + TAB
Not as sexy as
WIN+TAB, but does
the same thing.
Hold down ALT and
press TAB. Each
time you press TAB
you should see a
different window
cycle to the front.
When you see the
window you want on http://www.cyber-knowledge.net/blog/windows-vista-eye-candy-or-
functionality/
top, let go of ALT.

69. Windows Snipping Tool

70. The Secret Technology Club
The Internet
Browsers
Search
Windows
Editing
Images

71. Basic Editing Hotkeys
CTRL+X Cut CMD+X
CTRL+C Copy CMD+C
CTRL+V Paste CMD+V

72. Hotkeys for Font Editing
CTRL+B Bold CMD+B
CTRL+I Italics CMD+I
CTRL+U Underline CMD+U

73. Paste without Formatting!
(when copying between desktop applications and the web)
CTRL+SHIFT+V
No more
Notepad!

74. Paste without Formatting!
(when copying from the web to Word 2010)

75. Paste without Formatting!

76. The “Undo” Hotkey
CTRL+Z CMD+Z
In most programs, every press
of this hotkey will undo one step.
Press it five times?
Undo the last five steps.

77. Select Everything
CTRL+A CMD+A
Great when you want to
change the font of an
entire page or document.

78. Find a word or phrase
CTRL+F CMD+F
Word Documents
Excel Files
Web Browsers
Wikipedia Pages
…

79. Selecting Adjacent Objects
Click on first
Hold down
SHIFT
Click on last
Let go of SHIFT

80. Selecting Non-adjacent Objects
Click on first
Hold down CTRL
Click on each
object
Let go of CTRL

81. Jump from field to field
TAB

82. Jump from field to field
TAB

83. Jump from field to field
TAB

84. Indent INSIDE a Table
CTRL-TAB

85. The Secret Technology Club
The Internet
Browsers
Search
Windows
Editing
Images

86. Right Click on Image
(CTRL-Click on Mac)
Formatting
Menu

87. Wrap Text

88. YOU Decide how to Wrap Text

89. Show / Hide

90. Show / Hide
(all formatting is now visible)

91. Find the Anchor
(click on the image FIRST)

92. Move the
anchor to
change
where the
picture is
anchored
to in the
text.
NOTE: Anchors can only be
placed on new paragraphs.

93. Format borders, shadows, etc.
(Right-click or CTRL-Click on Image)

94. That’s all for
this installment of
“The Secret Technology
Club”
Hope you learned
something new!

95. Contact me here.
www.mariahandersen.com
www.StudyingSocialMedia.com
www.TeachingCollegeMath.com