Every once in awhile, I surprise myself with clicking on an icon – and suddenly something happens that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I just experienced this with my downloads file on my mac. Until today, I didn’t know I could “arrange” downloads in various ways – including by date/time! If I’d known that for the past two years, I could have saved SOOO much time digging through that file to find the last thing I downloaded.
It’s hard to break or mess up your online tools. They’ve been designed fluidly to appeal to many different styles. If you want to do something or see information arranged in a certain way, don’t be afraid to look it up!
If your “system is organized all wrong”, you may be able to easily rearrange things to better suit your needs.
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Sometimes spending a few minutes now to learn your systems better, and explore your capabilities, can save you countless hours in the future.
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When I upgraded to Outlook 2010, I was annoyed, because the search function seemed less powerful. For example, if I entered “Cena” and “blog” it would bring up every email that contained EITHER term, instead of only those containing both.
Then one day, I happened to look up while doing a search, and saw a whole bunch of Search Tools – now I know I can search on To, Subject, Has Attachments, Category, date, and much more.
I think that’s one downfall of upgrading your software – it may be better, but we tend to use it the way we’ve always done, so we don’t reap the benefits of the new bells and whistles!