Keyboard Shorcuts

Do you wonder how the younger in the millennial generation can rapidly stroke keys on the keyboard and make things happen in a blink of an eye? In nano-seconds they somehow transpire quick actions to magic, where in a few keystrokes they have lowered the volume, switched between programs, “googled” your inquire, and a whole list of other activities you missed.

While some of us may take time moving about the mouse and the keyboard, they stroke the keys without ever leaving the keyboard. Here is the secret; they use nothing more than keyboard shortcuts. The following links are some shortcuts to Microsoft’s Windows applications. From copy, cut, and paste to application specific shortcuts.

The following link if not all, gives you a pretty lenghty list of keyboard shortcuts.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/winkeyboard.htm
With diligence and a lot of patience you might just never use your mouse again.

So, how do you ever become good at keyboard shortcuts? The Valley’s Computer Teacher says: Practice! Practice! Practice!

Every week practice two new keyboard shortcuts and while always repeating the previously learned.

The Generation Y: Work Ethics

The Baby Boomers are the generation born between 1946 and 1964 and everyone knows plenty about them. Subsequently, Generation X is the people born between 1965 and 1976. They are also known as the “Reagan Generation”. Those in Generation X tend to be very consumer driven and sensationally media savvy. Next is Generation Y, those born between the years 1977 and 1994. This is the largest generation since the Baby Boomers, sometimes distinguished as “Millennial”, “Second Baby Boom”, or “Internet Generation”. They are extremely computer savvy, most educated generation yet, impatient, and love to learn.
The older in this generation are becoming today’s workforce and their distinctive characteristics are leaving America uncertain. Today we have Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y together and much too often colliding in the workplace. Individuals with different ideas, values, work ethics, ways of getting things done and communication has always existed in the workplace but why is it a problem today? The understanding of each generation characteristics may be the answer to how to manage intergenerational groups in the workplace, families, and friends.
I found a good article about this new Generation Y and their work ethics from NAS Recruitment Company.
http://www.nasrecruitment.com/TalentTips/NASinsights/GenerationY.pdf

Here is a podcast you can listen to from your computer. http://www.gartner.com/it/products/podcasting/asset_183534_2575.jsp