Two pages on my site account for 80% of my overall hits – how to insert a landscape page in a portrait document in Word, and how to sync voice memos from your iPhone to your computer (though that one is going down the rankings now that Apple seem to have sorted out the problem). These were two of a list of my all-time favourite hints and tips for using computers that I did for an Advent calendar blog in 2011. Here they all are in a list. One or two may be on the way to redundancy since it was done 3 years ago, but there’s a lot that’s still valid:
- Advent calendar 2011: tips from a former Kelly Girl
- IT tips #1: Change case of letters in MS Word with a keystroke
- IT tips #2: Get rid of text-wrap when copying and pasting into Word
- IT tips #3: Use Google as a calculator and more
- IT tips #4: Sort things in Word, even when they’re not in a table
- IT tips #5: Grow font sizes with the keyboard in Word
- IT tips #6: Print just a portion of a PDF file
- IT Tips #7: use PureText to strip off unwanted formatting
- IT tips #8: How to embed a Youtube clip in a post
- IT tips #9: Download Youtube videos as MP4/FLV files
- IT tips #10: Customise keyboard shortcuts to enter weird characters in Word
- IT tips #11: Use dummy text to help you write
- IT tips #12: Select text in Word as a graphic block
- IT tips #13: Make a form in Word that you can *really* fill in
- IT tips #14: Use Delicious to store and access web links anywhere
- IT tips #15: Four ways to help you remember where you put things
- IT tips #16: How to use iTunes to convert files to MP3 and back
- IT tips #17: How to force a YouTube video to start at a particular time point
- IT tips #18: If you’re transcribing, get a USB foot control
- IT tips #19: How to stop procrastinating by turning the Internet off
- IT tips #20: How to compile multiple documents into one Preview pdf file (Mac only)
- IT tips #21: Drag your most-used sites on to your links bar in a browser
- IT tips #22: In MS Word, how to put a landscape page into a portrait document
- IT tips #23: How to hide your Facebook posts from particular people
- IT tips #24: How to make time-saving templates in Word
- IT tips #25: Use a notebook for the big stuff in life
