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01/21/2005 |
Financial activity is a bellwether of both hiring and right-sizing. The Mergers & Acquisitions / IPO Report takes a weekly look from both perspectives.
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01/20/2005 |
A summary of weekly news about the career sites, search engines and other tools that affect your online recruiting activities.
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01/19/2005 |
Learn about products and services that can make you a more effective recruiter.
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01/18/2005 |
A summary of recruitment-centric news bites gleaned from a broad range of news sources, on and off the Web.
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01/17/2005 |
A summary of employers that have announced downsizing initiatives over the past week.
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This Week's RealTool: Is a great portion of your day spent searching online?
Then you may want to check out SearchOnline, the latest entry in the
metasearch parade.
Do the Right Thing
By T.J. Ripley
You're certainly familiar with your left mouse button - the one you click to follow links, position your cursor and make menu choices - but you might never use your other mouse button. And that's just not right.
It's easy to overlook the right mouse button, but it can make many of your operations easier to perform. The right mouse button gives you access to a special popup menu - one that contains commands specific to your current application and location. For example, if you right-click on a folder, a popup menu appears that allows you to open, cut, copy, delete or rename the folder. From inside a spreadsheet, right-clicking on a cell brings up a popup menu that allows you to cut, copy, insert data or format the cell.
Though there are usually other ways to perform these same commands, such as using the program's menu or toolbar, the popup menu provides a simple and direct way to perform them. In a few cases the popup menu may provide the only way to perform a function.
Here are some of the ways you can use the right mouse button to do some useful tasks and make more efficient use of your time:
See an image you want to save on a Web page? Position your cursor over the image, right-click and choose Save Picture As (if you're using Internet
Explorer) or Save Image As (if you're using Netscape). Then just select where you want to save the image on your computer and under what name.
Have a favorite graphic (family photo or corporate logo) you want to use as your desktop wallpaper? First, drag the file (a JPG, GIF or BMP image) into your browser window to display it there. Then right-click on the image in the browser and choose Set as Wallpaper to make it your default background.
Frustrated by frame navigation and your inability to see the addresses of the pages you are visiting? You can open a link in a new window and see the full URL of the page rather than just the address of the site's homepage. Position your cursor over a link within a frame, right-click on it and choose Open in New Window.
Want a quick way to your desktop display settings (things like wallpaper, screen savers and color schemes)? Rather than opening the Settings menu and searching through the choices on the Control Panel, you can get to the display settings directly from the desktop. Position your cursor over any open area of the desktop (not over an icon), right-click and choose Properties. The Display Properties dialog box appears and allows you to select which screen saver to use, alter the wallpaper, change the appearance of screen settings, and control the color settings and resolution.
Need to alter an Internet address you entered in a Word document? If you use the "Auto Format as You Type" option in your documents (see AutoCorrect on the Tools menu), Web addresses you type are immediately transformed into live links and there isn't any way to edit those links from the Word menus. But you can do it with the right mouse button. Position your cursor over the link, right-click it, point to the Hyperlink submenu and choose Edit Hyperlink. In the dialog box that appears you can then edit the hyperlink as necessary.
Want to correct your spelling errors in Word as you work? As long as you've set up Word to catch spelling errors as you type (see Options on the Tools menu), you can quickly correct them as you go. If you see a word underlined in red (meaning Word doesn't recognize it as a legitimate word), right-click on the word and either choose the correct spelling from the suggestions on the popup menu or add the word to your custom dictionary.
There are right-click tricks you can perform in almost every program. Take a look at the operations you use most often and see if you can do the right thing to save yourself some time and effort.
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