Tips & Tricks: September 2016

Don’t spend ages re-sizing and aligning fields with the mouse on Forms or Reports; select multiple fields and use the Size/Space and Align buttons on the Form Design Tools/Arrange Tab.

Need to format some cells quickly? Select the cells and right-click on them – as well as the Shortcut Menu you will see the Mini Toolbar which allows you to make many common formatting changes without having to find the buttons on the Ribbon. In Word and PowerPoint the Mini Toolbar appears automatically when you highlight some text.

Click the Reading View button at the bottom right (next to the zoom control) to hide the Navigation Panel, To Do Bar, etc., and allow you to focus on your emails or appointments. Click Normal View (just next to Reading View) to return to normal.

The highlighter pen (normally yellow, next to Font Colour on the Home Tab) has a drop-down arrow to allow you to change the pen colour. You can also apply the chosen colour to selected text using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+H.

Need to see two programs side by side? Hold the Windows Logo key and press left arrow to move the active window to the left half of the screen. Select another window and use Windows Logo key + right arrow to move it to the right half (works in Windows 7 onwards). Windows 10 shows small images of other open windows when you position the first window; just click the one you want to position it at the other side. Windows 10 also uses Windows Logo + up arrow or Windows Logo + down arrow to arrange u....