While typing long documents , its generally a good idea to stick to a consistent formatting styles within the document . While you can do this in all versions of word, word XP has task pane that makes it a breeze . If the task pane is not visible then click View – > Task pane . Now , use the arrow keys to navigate to style and Formatting . this provides you with list of formatting styles . Select the text you want to apply the formatting to and click the required format . You can add new , customized formatting by clicking the new style button , this is the good way to reduce the mouse clicks for reformatting text every now and then .

Remove all formatting :

Here’s the great way to remove all the formatting from a word document or just a selected portion of the document . Select the whole document by press ( Ctrl+A) or just select the portion of the document you wish to change . Now, Press Ctrl+Shift+M , all the formatting is removed from the document or selection .

Switching Shells : You can easily switch between the talisman and Explorer shells , when ever you want . Go to the Talisman settings, click on the Shell Switcher . Before you choose to load Talisman at startup, read the warning carefully and then restart the machine . To change back to the Windows shell, follows the same procedures , but you don’t need to restart . A Windows XP theme is also included . changing settings manually can be very tedious, but if you prefer to do so , Refer to talisman 2 help files .

Opening Windows Desktop

The desktop command in the command box opens your windows desktop in separate window . However , if you want your desktop files displayed in a pop-up menu form, type ‘ foldermenu desktop menubottom’ in the talisman command box . This will pop up a free-floating menu with all your old desktop files .

Creating a shutdown button

Most themes do not comes with properly aligned Shut down or Log off buttons , as one is expected to use the talisman Command Prompt . However , it is possible to create buttons – click on the talisman icon on the system tray , go to New->Button

Organizing system Restore :
If your restore folder is full , assigning more space won’t do any good . To get rid of this problem , you have to go to Control panel – > system and click on the performance tab, and then click on the file system . A new window will pop up . Here, click Troubleshooting tab . Select the ‘ Disable System Restore ‘ option , close the applet and reboot the machine for setting to take effect . The Restore folder intact, go to Control panel – > System -> File system and look for Read-ahead Optimization slider .

Set this slider to minimum . The hard drive will start deleting files from the Restore folder . Now, set the slider back to maximum and close the applet . Only the most recent files will be restored . This is the good exercise to do before defragmenting your hard disk .

For example , if you’re working on a large site and don’t want to upload your multimedia files each day, you can use site cloaking to cloak your multimedia folder, and the system excludes files in that folder from site operations your perform .

You can cloak folder and file types on the remote or local site . Cloaking excludes cloaked folders and
files from the following operations :

* Put, Get , Check In and Check Out

* Reports

* Select newer local and newer remote

* Sitewide operation , such as check and change links and search /replace .

* Synchronize

* Asset panel contents

* Template and Library updating

Dreamweaver excludes cloaking templates and library items from Get and Put operations only . It does not exclude these items from batch operations , because it might cause them to get out of sync with their instances . You can perform an operation on a specific cloaked folder by selecting the item in the ’site’ panel and performing an operation on it . Performing an operation on it . Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking .

1. Windows Key + Tab : Aero [press Tab to cycle between Windows]
2. Windows Key + E : Windows Explorer is launched.
3. Windows Key + R : Run Command is launched.
4. Windows Key + F : Search (which is there in previous Windows versions too)
5. Windows Key + X : Mobility Center
6. Windows Key + L : Lock Computer (It is there from the earlier versions as well)
7. Windows Key + U : Launches Ease of Access
8. Windows Key + P : Projector
9. Windows Key + T : Cycle Super Taskbar Items
10. Windows Key + S : OneNote Screen Clipping Tool [requires OneNote]
11. Windows Key + M : Minimize All Windows
12. Windows Key + D : Show/Hide Desktop
13. Windows Key + Up : Maximize Current Window
14. Windows Key + Down : Restore Down / Minimize Current Windows
15. Windows Key + Left : Tile Current Window to the Left
16. Windows Key + Right : Tile Current Windows to the Right
[Continue pressing the Left and Right keys to rotate the window as well]
17. Windows Key + # (# is any number) : Quickly Launch a new instance of the application in the Nth slot on the taskbar. Example Win+1 launches first pinned app, Win+2 launches second, etc.
18. Windows Key + = : Launches the Magnifier
19. Windows Key + Plus : Zoom in
20. Windows Key + Minus : Zooms out
21. Windows Key + Space : Peek at the desktop
From Windows Explorer

22. Alt + Up : Go up one level
23. Alt + Left/ Right : Back/ Forward
24. Alt + P : Show/hide Preview Pane
Taskbar modifiers

25. Shift + Click on icon : Open a new instance
26. Middle click on icon : Open a new instance
27. Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon : Open a new instance with Admin privileges
28. Shift + Right-click on icon : Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move / etc). Note: Normally you can just right-click on the window thumbnail to get this menu.
29. Shift + Right-click on grouped icon : Menu with Restore All / Minimize All / Close All, etc.
30. Ctrl + Click on grouped icon : Cycle between the windows (or tabs) in the group