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Quickly find related e-mail messages

Today's Tech Tip comes from Anna Krist, Planner: If you are not using conversation view in Outlook, you may find yourself searching for the right e-mail in a thread.  You find one email in a thread, but that wasn't the one you were looking for!  By right clicking on a message, you can easily find related messages (e-mails from the same thread), or e-mails from the same sender.

Shortcut Keys for searching on a webpage or document

Did you know that you can quickly search for any word on a webpage, or in a document (like Word or Excel?)  Simply press Ctrl+F, and type your term into the search window.  You can hit F3, or find the next arrow, to cycle through all the instances of that word.  

Two tips to being a good shared computer user

Often we may need to use many different computers as we move offices and desks.  If we don't do take a few simple precautions, we can cause our computers to run out of space, and we can end up getting locked out of computers (in a way that is difficult to solve!)  Here are some tips to being a good shared computer user at the Center: At a different desk?  Don't use the Outlook desktop application. Instead, log into Web Outlook.  This stops all your mail from being downloaded to that computer! After using another computer, always make sure to log off!  This will help ensure you don't have issues getting locked out of other computers in the future, and helps to keep the computer from running slowly.