How many of you remember the old days when you could only have one browser window open at time? Yikes! Thankfully, the current versions of mainstream browsers now let you open multiple sites and it is easy to switch between them by clicking on tabs.

But what happens when you accidentally close a tab and you want to get back to it? You can of course go digging around your History, but there is a faster way.

You can use the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+Shift+T” to open the accidentally closed tab. This works in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

A side …

People who are regularly bombarded with streams of email do not pay attention. Turn off all notifications that an email has arrived in order to structure your work and devote uninterrupted time to the important tasks of the day.

Today’s tip: Know what you are looking for…use a dictionary.

I didn’t take biology in high school. The thought of having to disect something just wasn’t my cup of tea. I regret that decision sometimes, usually when someone sends me a request to quantify an injury to a body part that I have never heard of.

I once was asked to get a rush quantum for a musculo-ligamentous strain of the neck. Foolishly, and because the requestor gave me the confirmed spelling, I plugged the phrase into a paid legal search tool. I got an answer, but probably not the …

Don't always work with application windows fully expanded. Make your computer's desktop work for you. It's a great resource.

Being more thoughtful, courteous and deliberative when you leave a voice mail message, particularly one for a client, can do wonders to make that client believe he or she has chosen the right attorney – and to recommend you to others.

This tip comes from Ted Tjaden, , Slaw contributor, and National Director, Knowledge Management at McMillan.

For the last 15 years or so I have customized an HTML page sitting on my local C drive containing a 2 x 2 or 3 x 3 table of Internet links I most frequently use on a daily basis for conducting research.

This is quicker than trying to organize and subsequently use Browser bookmarks or favorites. Depending on which computer I am on, this page is either my home page (on my personal laptop) or the top “Favourite” in my browser’s …

Do you forget to include attachments when you are sending an Outlook email? I hate when that happens!

If so, try Attachment Alarm for Microsoft Outlook. This add-in is very easy to use. You just specify the words or phrases that occur in an email message and imply an attachment (“see attachments”, “see attachment”, “in attachment”, “the file attached” etc.). Attachment Alarm scans all outgoing e-mail messages and if it finds words or phrases from the Key words list, it raises the alarm and suggests inserting an attachment in a Microsoft Outlook message.

Attachments Alarm for Outlook works with Microsoft …

This tip comes from Erin Roberts, the founding partner of Zzeem, Inc, a consulting and technology firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Erin works with businesses to build strong business processes within industry, professional and government organizations.

Erin runs workshops that help organizations focus on excelling at the services that they provide.  Her advice is how to start moving your business from where it is now to where you want it to be:

Step One: Assessing Your Current Situation

• What legal services do you provide now?
• How do you deliver them?
• What works well for you?
• What needs improvement?

Step …

You can have too much information. Not surprisingly though, you can often not have enough. It is important to know what is going on in the world, even if the knowing is a simple scrath of the surface. There is a reason children are encouraged to monitor current events in social studies.

A quick way to monitor current events is to quickly browse a current events source. One of my favourites is the Google News page. Though this is a search engine starting point, you can monitor trends and see broadly what is happening in the world just by viewing …

The next time you need to select most of the files in an open Explorer window don’t waste your time holding down Ctrl and clicking each file manually. It’s much easier to select the ones you DON’T need, and then let Windows reverse your selection.

Inside an open window, hold down Ctrl as you select the file(s) you DON’T want to select (sounds backward, but wait…). Select Edit, then Invert Selection, and Windows will turn your selection inside out leaving you with the files you wanted to select. You can then delete or copy them as needed.…