Internet Explorer
A quick way to organize Favorites (2 tips)

Press Ctrl+B when Internet Explorer is running (and at the front). This will bring up the dialog box where you organize your Favorites into folders, move or rename Favorites, etc. (same as the menu option). Additionally it's worth knowing that holding down shift when clicking the 'Organize Favorites...' menu will open Windows Explorer in the Favorites folder.

Internet Explorer
Some handy short-cut keys

Alt+Left Arrow - Same as clicking the 'Back' button
Alt+Right Arrow - Same as clicking the 'Forward' button
Ctrl+B - Opens the Organize Favorites dialog box
Ctrl+L - Prompts you for a web page to open
Ctrl+N - Opens another Internet Explorer window
Ctrl+R - Same as clicking the 'Refresh' button
Ctrl+W - Closes the current Internet Explorer window

Microsoft Office
How to copy from Excel to Word without creating a table

A common way of using Excel extensively is that you store paragraphs of text in a column of cells.
This works just fine, until you want to copy the cells into Microsoft Word: when you copy them they are inserted a series of table rows into your Word document, which may not be what you want.
If you don't want the text formatted as a table, here's a trick to copy the text, without it being converted into a Word table:
1, Highlight the cells your interested in the Excel spreadsheet, and select copy.
2. Start NotePad. Paste the text into an empty NotePad document.
3. The cells will appear as a series of rows of text, without table formatting.
4. Highlight the text in NotePad, and select Copy.
5. Paste the text into Microsoft Word.
If you copy the text using NotePad, any fonts set for the text willbe lost. If you prefer to preserve the font choices of the original cells, use WordPad instead

Notepad
How to use Notepad to make log files

Notepad can automatically generate date/time stamps for a series of entries. To try this feature, open notepad, and type '.LOG' then save the file and exit. When you re-open the file, you will see the date/time of the last save, and be able to enter more text. Each time you save the file and re-open it, another date/time stamp is added to the end of the file.

Windows
Delete files without putting them into the recycle bin

Normally when you delete a file in Windows, it is not actually deleted, but moved to the recycle bin - which you later have to empty to regain the disk space associated with the file. To skip the recycle bin, select the file's icon, and then hold down 'Shift' will pressing the 'Delete' key - or hold down 'Shift' while selecting 'Delete' from the pop up (context) menu which appears when you right click on the file's icon.

Windows
How to quickly cycle through applications

To quickly cycle through your open applications press ALT+ESC which will switch to the next application in the task bar. To repeatedly step through many open applications, hold down ALT, and press TAB - as long as you continue to hold down ALT a little pop-up window while show all you open applications, and you can move through them by repeatedly pressing TAB.

Windows
How to use the Windows key

Windows - Displays the Start menu
Windows + TAB - Cycles through the application buttons on the task bar
Windows + F1 - Displays Help
Windows + r - Displays the Run dialog
Windows + e - Displays the Windows Explorer
Windows + m - Minimizes all applications
Windows + SHIFT + m - Restores all applications (reversing the effect of Windows + m)
Windows + f - Displays the Find All Files dialog box
Windows + CTRL + f - Displays the Find Computer dialog box
Windows + Pause/Break - Displays the System Properties dialog

Windows
Switching an MS-DOS box between Window and Full Screen

Hold down ALT and press the Return Key (the one on the main keyboard - not the one on the numeric keypad). The MS-DOS window will flip between running in a Window and running in Full Screen mode, each time you use this key combination.

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