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In this edition:
Sort Emails With Multiple Columns
At a Loss for Words?
Web Browsing with the Scroll Wheel

It's time for another edition of our tips and trick where we present you with a few helpful bits of information which we hope makes your everyday computing tasks just a little bit quicker & easier.

Sort Emails With Multiple Columns

But what about if you want to sort by more than one column? For instance, if you want to sort by "From" first in ascending order (so you can quickly see all of the emails grouped together from that person who sent you that important email) and then by "Received" date (since you know the approximate date the email in question was sent).

If you've tried clicking on "From" and then "Received", you'll have noticed that that doesn't work as Outlook only sorts the last column you click on.

What you probably didn't know is that if you click on the primary column you want sorted (in our example, the "From" field") and then hold the Shift button while clicking on the second column (again, in our example the "Received" column), Outlook will do exactly what we need - sort by one column first and then sorting with a secondary field.

In fact, you can hold the shift key and click on another column to add it to your sort filter.

You'll be able to find that important email in no time now!

At a Loss for Words?
If you're writing a document and start to think that you're using one word too often, you may want to use a similar word instead.

You can find a list of similar words in Microsoft Word's thesaurus which can be accessed by clicking on Tool > Language > Thesaurus.

Or, you can highlight the word being overused, and press Shift + F7 to have Word automatically bring up the thesaurus and show you a list of alternatives for the word you've selected.

Web Browsing with the Scroll Wheel
If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you already know that you can roll it to scroll up or down a page in Internet Explorer (or most other applications).

You may even know that if you press and hold the scroll wheel for a moment and the let go and move the mouse, the page will scroll with the speed you move the mouse...

But what you may not know is that if you press and hold Shift while scrolling the wheel, you will navigate back and forth through the web pages you've recently browsed.

You can also press and hold CTRL and scroll the wheel to make the text larger or smaller.

That's it for this month. We hope you find these tips useful and if you did, please share them!