Tech Tips & Tricks – e-Squillace

Text edit or shortcuts
(for Word, Wordpad, and Notepad, Outlook, Outlook Web Access (pretty much every text editing context in Windows), and even editors such as those found in SQL Server Management Studio)
Lists (multiple) of Windows OS shortcuts
39 Shortcuts for File Explorer on Windows 10 from TenComputer
List of web browser shortcuts (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and IE)
Master list of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Shortcuts, Tricks and Tips
Microsoft Office shortcuts
- Office shortcuts page on this site
- Keyboard shortcuts in Excel
- Keyboard shortcuts for Access (or this resource from AllHotkeys)
How to forward an email to a channel in Microsoft Teams
Power BI keyboard shortcuts (on my Power BI page)
38 + Advanced Editor Keyboard Shortcuts in Power Query by Rick de Groot at BI Gorilla (who knew that many existed in the PQE?)
Visual Studio shortcut keys
- Here’s a listing of Visual Studio shortcuts from the “Data & Object Factory“, or dofactory.com
- And a PDF shortcut listing related to VS 2003 & 2005 from “Philosophical Geeks”
- And from “Dev102”, “Ten Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know”

Microsoft Sysinternals, originally created by Mark Russinovich to “host his advanced system utilities and technical information”

Thanks to student Tony Pierce, who showed me the following…
When you’re in an MMC Management Console, or Windows Explorer, that has columns in the details pane you can hit CTRL + + (hold CTRL, then hit “+” twice in a row) and it will magically expand every column in the details pane to fit the maximum value in any column. This was one of the few remaining reasons which required a “rodent” (mouse). Thanks, TonyP!
Your RDP/Terminal Services client has several valuable shortcuts…within the TermServices client window click on the Help button to do a search for the string “shortcut”.
Customize your Windows XP “Start” button (from Annoyances.org)
List of all Windows MMC Console Files (.MSC files) (For the purpose of making shortcuts and launching tools from the Start Menu)
List of Windows Control Panels (.CPL files). Launch any Control Panel from the “Run…” command using its file name, such as “ncpa.cpl” to launch the Network Connections Control Panel
List of popular executable names to easily launch from the “Run…” command
Are you new to the command prompt environment. Download and walk through the exercises in this file to gain proficiency.
Want to learn more about cryptography? Download all the chapters from this excellent book (referenced elsewhere on this site), “Cryptography Decrypted” by H.X. Mel

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