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Powerpoint shortcuts

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Here is the official list to learn. The main difference is Option is used instead of ctrl which is a little wierd since there is a CTRL key on modern mac systems:
Help and How-To for Microsoft for Mac Office Products | Mactopia
PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts
Here are the keys ones I useHelp and How-To for Microsoft for [...]

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Mac Excel Shortcuts

September 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Geek

Here is the official list from Microsoft
The strange things are they are different. For instance F4 is paste whereas in Windows Excel is it change relative to absolute. And F2 is edit cell whereas it is cut text. And again, there is this strangeness that you use the Option key where you use the Ctrl [...]

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What if a player wants to drop?

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

If someone is playing and they decide they don’t want to play.

If it is after September 1 there is no refund
Click on the league
Choose Edit/Registant and type in their name
You should find them and click on them
Now to quick click for participants and seach for that team
find the person and click on the [...]

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PowerPoint Shortcuts compatibility

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Most people never use a shortcut in PowerPoint, but I learned from the original PowerPoint ninja Gary. It is way faster to be able to navigate by keys than to select. I’m sure Mac PowerPoint doesn’t support most of these. For instance, the key paragraph promote and demote are not, so its another project for [...]

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PC Office Compatibility mode for Mac Office

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

One of the maddening things about the Mac Office 2004/2008 line is that it is not keystroke compatible with Windows Office. I don’t know why they don’t have a compatibility mode so that for instance Ctrl-+ works (this is insert) or Ctrl—(this is delete) or Shift-Space which is select row, but they don’t. The same [...]

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Finding a coach and Removing a coach from a team

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

This really shouldn’t be this hard, but to find an existing coach from a team you have to:

  1. Click on the league you want (e.g., 2008 Fall Rec)
  2. On the Quick Clicks in the top left of the screen, look for Find Participant
  3. Click on Coache and type in the last name
  1. You will see [...]

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