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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 August, 2010 Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys I am on vacation and on my home computer I do not have a mouse so rely on keyboard shortcut keys, which reminded me again how helpful they are and how they are a big timesaver rather than reaching for the mouse all the time.

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What 30 Days of Productivity Taught Me About Finding Time

Success

When she asked me to play the assigned pieces, it was clear I hadn’t touched any part of my keyboard or even glanced at the sheet music outside of her practice room. My practice book was filled with notes expressing her disappointment: Please practice! So the keyboard gained a permanent space in my trunk. or Redo while counting!

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How To Perform A Distraction Audit

Simple Productivity Blog

We take the half-empty coffee cups off the desk, clear papers out of the way, find the keyboard where it is buried under piles. I had two water cups, a plate and some plastic wrap on the table with my keyboard. Papers/notebooks/books. It’s a great concept on the surface: get rid of your distractions so that you can concentrate.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

But while those books remain brisk sellers, there’s another bible in town. In a world of unprecedented change, employees have to be able to adapt to succeed,” says Dave Ulrich, who has written and co-written over 30 books on human resources and leadership, including HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources.

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My 10 Email Rules

Simple Productivity Blog

Once I have an incomplete calendar, I start missing appointments or double booking. This is very quick, and I can do this without taking my hands off the keyboard. I could file calendar items to be put on the calendar later. But I have found that this will lead me to have an incomplete calendar. I only check email three times a day.

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First Look - The Amazon Kindle Fire

Small Business Labs

 But it fits nicely in my book bag and I'm already traveling with it.  It supports almost all the applications I use, has an excellent keyboard, yet is small and light enough to easily carry.  The screen size and keyboard make it impractical for me to do real work on it. .

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Must Have Gadgets for the Modern Entrepreneur

The Small Business Blog

If you’re leading the meeting you can take your notes in with you and if you need to make notes during the proceedings you won’t need to annoy your colleagues by tapping on a laptop keyboard. Writing a proposal, managing accounts or really any other serious work really requires the use of a fully featured computer.

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