Monday, December 4, 2017

How to use keyboard tags and keys

How to create keyboard keys effects

This blog post describes how to insert some code into your blogger theme, then use tags to make text appear like key images.  

https://helplogger.blogspot.com/2013/10/css-keyboard-keys-on-blogger.html

Here is a test post using keyboard key tags. Ctrl + F

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Gmail - How To Make Gmail Look More Like Outlook

Gmail has a lot of wonderful features and customizations but many of us have used Microsoft Outlook for many years (decades!) and for some people that it is difficult to change.


If you want to use Gmail for all its advantages but you miss the look and layout of Outlook there is a way for you to change Gmail to a split view.


How To Create A Hyperlink - Link to a URL or Google Document

There is a better way to share your documents and files by email than by sending an attachment. The better way is to put your documents and files in the cloud and just share them with a link. The 'cloud' could be Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and others.

Thank goodness we have cloud computing these days to make it easier and better for everyone. BUT, it’s hard to break old habits, and you need to have a good concept, or mental model, of what is different.

So here are a few things to think about.


If you send a document (Word or Excel files) as a FILE attachment, then your people will have a copy that will never change. If you ever update the document you will have to send the updated version to them again. And there are multiple copies everywhere. If you send an attachment to 10 people there are 11 copies of it (including yours).

BUT, if you send the document as a LINK to your Google Docs document (or Dropbox or whatever) then they will always go to your shared file and see the most current version. There is only one and it is always updated.