Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes.
[image description: a reference sheet for computer help. At the top is says “Did you know?” And below are some helpful tidbits.
If you download a PDF and you see it ends in .exe, delete it. It’s a virus.
If the WiFi at the airport/hotel costs money, add ?.jpg [question mark dot j-p-g] onto the end of any url (they don’t usually redirect images)
To download a YouTube video just add “ss” [s s without the space] between the www. [W, w, w dot] and YouTube in the URL.
Accidentally close a Word file without saving? No autosave either? Search .asd [dot a, s, d] in file explorer under this/my PC the document will be there, Windows has your back.
How to make an essay longer: hit control F, search “.” [period] and change the font size on the periods from 12 to 14. They look the same but will make your paper significantly longer. [Transcriber’s note: this obviously doesn’t work for papers with a word count or anything turned in digitally where the professor can access the font size. End transcriber’s note.]
Highlight a section in Word and hit shift F3 to make it all caps or lowercase.
When you copy something from the internet use control plus shift plus V to paste it. This will prevent the text from formatting.
Save powerpoint presentations as a “.ppsx” [dot P, P, S, X] file (PowerPoint slideshow) and it will open to the slideshow
Alt plus click on any Google image to save it to your computer.]