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I have a great network of friends I can always rely on to give me advice and suggestions. They are smart, successful, and know what they want. So I will enlist them for advice on how my blog is coming along in regards to presentation, style, and content. My friend, we will call him “Frank,” relayed some things that he thought I may want to consider that he believes are improvements.

Frank is a very direct person and likes his information straight and to the point. As you can see, I am a bit of a storyteller and I like to illustrate with examples, which may cause me to careen off point. So, back to the point. He loves what I’ve come up with here, but likes his information direct and to the point. “Tell me what I want and/or need to know so I can move on” kind of guy. I respond with “KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid.”

The suggestions and tips I plan to give here are simple, easy, and fast. They are designed to be executed without having to seek out an IT genius and they will save you time. You will be able to accomplish the same task in a fraction of the time that you did before.

Hot-Key Tip: Alt-Tab

Frank is a person who “normally” has around 20 applications running at one time, consisting of web pages, documents, programs, and accessories going at any given time. I try to do everything that needs to be done by not leaving my keyboard to execute the process without reaching for my mouse and searching. This takes my right hand off the home keys and my attention is now on navigating a mouse in a seek-and-destroy mission. This tip will allow you to navigate through all your open applications without having to grab your mouse and look around for what you want.

You can have any of your windows minimized, maximized, or anywhere in between, or a combination of any of those to execute this.

First, hold down the Alt key. Then, while holding the Alt key down, tap the Tab key. This will display a window of all the applications you have currently running with a description of the highlighted application. It will look something like this:

If you continue to hold down the Tab key, you will rifle through probably ten pages in one second, unable to view the description as it passes through. So tapping the Tab key, always holding the Alt key down, you will be able to view each document and description to get to the one you want. Once you release the Alt key, the desired page will lift onto the screen and is now your active application.

So this one is for you Frank. Sometimes you really are my “idea” guy.

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