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Don't work hard, work smart! Why spend hours doing things that could be done in seconds? This workshop will show you a range of amazing productivity ideas and ways to automate common tasks so that you spend less time doing repetitive work and more time on the things that really matter. Putting these ideas to work will literally save you hours of time! Hands-on session so bring a computer or Chromebook
Basic Computer Use techniques
Basic Computer Use techniques
- 2 finger Trackpad technique
- Two finger scrolling
- Two finger right click
Teachers, please learn these basic skills and explicitly teach them to your students!
This seems SO basic, I know, but Fitts's Law is the reason it matters so much. Trust me.
Tab Management
Tab Management
- Eaach tab runs in a protected window
- CMD-T for a new tab
- Drag to reorder tabs
- Separating and Joining tabs
- Pinning tabs
- Duplicating tabs
- CMD-T to reopen closed tab
Common (and really useful!) Keyboard Shortcuts
Common (and really useful!) Keyboard Shortcuts
- Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V - Cut, Copy Paste
- Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I, Ctrl-U - Bold, Italic, Underline
- Ctrl-Z - Undo the last action
- Ctrl-F - Find on this page
- Ctrl-K - Insert a link
- Ctrl-T - Open new tab
- Ctrl-Shift-T - ReOpen Closed tab
- Ctrl-N - Open new window
- Shift-Ctrl-N - Open new Incognito Window
- Ctrl-W - Close this window
- Ctrl-P - Print this page
- Spacebar and Shift-Spacebar - Scroll up and down a webpage
- Ctrl-Shift-> and Ctrl-Shift-< - Bump font size up or down (in Docs)
Yeah, yeah, I know you don’t like keyboard shortcuts because you can’t remember them. Learn them anyway. You’ll thank me later. You’re welcome.
Want to be more productive?
Want to be more productive?
- Auto Text Expander (Chrome), TextExpander (Mac), TextExpander (Windows)
- Clipboard History (Chrome), Flycut (Mac), ClipDiary (Windows)
- Learn to use Styles - sample
- Voice Typing
Pivot Tables in Sheets
Pivot Tables in Sheets
Q: What is a pivot table?
A: Awesome. Plot one variable against another. Immediately, Automatically. (sample)
And let's not forget Filter Views!
Automate common processes with AddOns
Automate common processes with AddOns
Addons increase the productivity of your Google drive tools by giving you extra features that are not standard. By taking advantage of these add-ons you can greatly increase your productivity.
- Sorted Paragraphs - sample
- Save As Doc - sample
- QR Generator - sample
- Geocode - sample
- RowCall - sample
- Flubaroo - sampleForm, sampleSheet
- Yet Another Mail Merge - sampleForm, sampleSheet
- Autocrat - sampleForm, sampleOtherStuff
- DocAppender - sample
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