Ongoing list of Tips and Tricks by Operating System
Lock your computer before leaving your desk
This is something you should do EVERY time you leave your computer (this is good practice even at home; especially if you have kids or pets).
Windows: Windows Key + L
macOS: Control + ⌘ + Q
Paste from your clipboard history
Remember a few copies ago when you copied someone's name and you want to paste it again but you already copied something else that is in the clipboard? No worries, paste from the clipboard history.
Windows: Windows Key + V
macOS: You will have to use a third party like Clipy to get this functionality.
Take a screenshot of a section of your screen and save to the clipboard
Windows: Windows Key + Shift + S
macOS: Shift + ⌘ + 4 (Note: this saves the screenshot to the desktop)
Take advanced screenshots (gif, screencasts, annotations, arrows, etc)
Create a new Google Docs file without opening Google Docs
Document: https://document.new
Spreadsheet: https://spreadsheet.new
Presentation: https://presentation.new
Desktop window snapping
Windows: Windows Key + Right/Left arrow - Snaps the window to the right or left of screen. Can move window across multiple monitors. Windows Key + Up/Down arrow - Maximize or minimize windows. (Note; Windows 11 handles this much better than Windows 10 and is one reason you may want to consider upgrading.
macOS: In the top left of the window you want to snap, hover over the green icon and select one of the snapping options.
Safely check links for phishing attempts
There are many services that will allow you to paste a link and they will check the link for malicious content so you don't have to click on it. Here are a handful of services:
https://easydmarc.com/tools/phishing-url
https://www.emailveritas.com/url-checker
https://checkphish.ai/
https://www.psafe.com/dfndr-lab/
Useful Google Sheet shortcuts
Windows
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + : - Inserts the current date and time
Ctrl + Shift + : - Inserts the current time
Ctrl + Shift + V - Paste values only
macOS
⌘ + ; - Insert date
⌘ + Option + Shift + ; - Insert Date and time
Improve how you copy,highlight paste,words for copying and pasting
Use Ctrl + arrow keys to navigate to the end of the word.
Google Sheets Shortcuts - Dates - Alt Enter
Copy Pasting - Home End Shift and Control
Ctrl Shift V