Comments on: And just one more tip…

By: Ana Herrera

Ana Herrera — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:13:09 +0000

Thanks to all of you for your contributions. If I discover anything worth sharing, I`ll let you know.

By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:02:48 +0000

Paul, there’s an overachiever in every crowd… This sounds like a great tip! OpenOffice has a similar feature that you can turn on or not, where it will correct two initial caps, LIke THis automatically. Thanks for your comment!

By: Josie Albert

Josie Albert — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:30:14 +0000

Wow! Thanks for the tip.

By: Gina Hardinge

Gina Hardinge — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:44:00 +0000

Great tips. Did you know about F12 for “save as”?
Regards
Gina

By: Paul Hirsh

Paul Hirsh — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:14:11 +0000

Hello,

I didn’t know about the ALT+ F3 . wHAT i USE INSTEAD when for example I leave caps lock on by mistake is ALT+o followed by e which gives me a menu which in addition to CAPS, no caps and Initial Caps includes “toggle” which simply reverses upper and lower case. It also has sentence case (only the first word’s initial capitalised) and simple letter spacing options. You can move between the radio buttons using the up/down arrows, before hitting enter.

If you leave caps lock on and then type in a word beginning with a capital (so it looks like this: fIRSTLY) wORD WILL AUTOMATICALLY TOGGLE and switch off your caps lock the first time you hit the space bar.

am I giving too much away?

HTH

Paul

By: Mohamed Mehenoun

Mohamed Mehenoun — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:03:31 +0000

Hello,

Another tip that I find more than useful for redondant words is:

Imagne that you have the word “Telecommunications” which is repeated a lot in your document, and as a human being you’d rather win some time by just typin something shorter, you just have to highlight it and press ALT+F3, you’ll be prompted for a shortcut let’s use “tel”, then whenever you write “tel” just press F3 tadaaaaa…

I hope it helped.

Best regards,

By: Antonin

Antonin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:39:35 +0000

I have known about this shortcut for years and I admit I am rather spoilt by the constant use of it. I have been looking for a way to extend it universally. True, Trados and Transit have it, but Excel, PPT and other don’t. I have found some near-solutions, but not a real and complete one. Perhaps somebody out there would know?

Antonin

By: Licia

Licia — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:24:40 +0000

Very likely you already know, but just in case…
In all Office applications, if you double-click on the Format Painter you can then apply the same formatting to different parts of the same document. When you have finished, just press Esc to deselect.

I also find F4 very useful to repeat any action I’ve just carried out, e.g. all the settings I’ve changed/applied in a dialog. It’s quicker than using the Repeat button on the standard toolbar or the Ribbon in Office 2007.

Licia

PS The nice thing about Shift+F3 is that it also converts lowercase extended characters into uppercase ones, if needed, e.g. Italian è into È

By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:15:25 +0000

@Jill and Jenn: No problem! This was one of those “isn’t it wonderful that translators have each other” moments, as we all oohed and aahed as we watched the text go LIKE THIS and like this and Like This on the screen!

By: jillsommer

jillsommer — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:47:47 +0000

What a wonderful little tip that I was unaware of! I’m going to start using it right away. Thanks so much for sharing this!!!