Randy Dean shows how to open Windows programs faster using the Start menu's letter index. Click the button at the top, pick a letter like V for your video editor, and the app loads instantly. He also shares Shift + Fn + F5 to launch PowerPoint directly.
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Hi everybody, Randy Dean, Email Sanity Expert. So I'm making the other video that I'm recording and putting on my YouTube channel today, and I realized I saw another really good microlearning tip that I could share with everybody right now. And let me show you this tip. This is so, so quick, so easy. Uh, one of the things I was doing is I realized I had to do a little video edit, uh, to the other video I'm making. And so I want to go open up my video editor. Now, of course, I could come down here and click Start, and then page all the way down to the video editor under letter V. Or, want to be really slick, let's try something different. Go back up at the top, see this little button right here? Click on that, click on the letter V, your editor's right there. Bam! It's that fast. All right, there's your tip. Why are you scrolling all through the whole alphabet when you could just click on, once again, right there? See the little number sign? Click on that. It brings up your list of the letters of where your programs reside. Hey, cool. Let's go to Microsoft Paint. Hey, no, I'm not going to do that. All right, that was the tip. Hope you had fun with that one. Thanks for your time. Once again, Shift Fn F5 to launch your PowerPoint, a little micro tip if you didn't know that one too. Thanks for your time watching today's little quick tip video for Windows navigation to your programs. I'm Randy Dean, email sanity expert. Learn more about me here. You like the video, click like, consider subscribing to the channel, make a comment if you've got a quick, way to navigate around too. And you get my productivity PDF tip sheets, which I mentioned in a lot of my previous videos, just by sending me an email, randy@randaldean.com, and putting YouTube PDF in the subject line. Thanks, signing out.