Recently, a client approached me for help in managing her files on the Google platform. She was getting overwhelmed using multiple Gmail profiles, having many browser tabs open in the same place to save websites, and was unable to keep track of what went where. This is a very common problem with a very easy solution!
To this day, my sister and I still talk about one of our biggest fights when we were kids. She had done something to annoy me, so I decided to retaliate by ‘editing’ one of her homework assignments in Microsoft Word. If I recall, my edits went: CTRL+A, backspace, and then CTRL+S, which means I selected ALL her text, DELETED it and SAVED her new blank document in place of all her hard work (sorry again, Sarah!). Needless to say, she was VERY upset to hear she lost all her work. Even in our 30’s, this story dates us, because with today’s cloud technology this would have been very easy to fix.
"If I didn’t know these tricks, I wouldn’t have been able to use my device and get any work done and miiiiiiiight have ended up throwing that computer at a wall." Have you ever heard of using keyboard shortcuts? These are a sequence of keys you press on your keyboard in order to give your computer some sort of a command. You need to hold each one down until you tap the last key in the sequence....