Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Do You Look at Your Legal Nurse Consulting Thumbnails or Not?
Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant who reads my Tech Tips knows I’m a keyboard guy and not a mouse guy. I’ve confessed this in the past. Every time a CLNC® consultant reaches for their mouse you may as well be reaching for a cup of healthy green tea for all the time it will save you. Those precious seconds off the keyboard are billable hours lost forever. End of story.
That being said, sometimes looking through a long Word® document, like that legal nurse consulting case report you just finished for your favorite attorney-client, can take a long time too. Repeatedly hitting Page Down like an OCD patient makes you feel like you’re slogging through a document. Even using the Find button to look for a particular word, like a name, can be cumbersome when the physician’s name is repeated every couple of lines.
Legal nurse consultants who want a quick way to look through a Word doc (or docx) can use the thumbnails view. Simply click View on your top toolbar and then check the “thumbnails” box. A series of thumbnail images of your pages will then appear on the left side of your page and you can drag the scroll bar on the left side of the page to quickly browse through your thumbnail pages.
This will save you loads of time and it works in PowerPoint® too!
One more freebie while I’m in a good mood: the next time you’re in a Word doc, click the View tab then on Zoom and set your document view to Page Width. This will make it much easier to edit (and easier on the eyes) by viewing the document at (are you ready?) the width of your screen. If you have a big monitor, it’ll feel like you’re at the movies (watching a case report being typed). If you want to check your formatting, you can set the view to Whole Page instead and you will see how the page will look when printed.
In an earlier blog I gave a few other keyboard shortcuts. Here’s one more you can add: hitting Ctrl and the a key (Ctrl+a) will select all the text in a document or a complete URL in a web browser (after you’ve clicked in the URL box). Then you can Ctrl+c (copy), Crtl+v (paste) to put it in a document and Crtl+p (print)!
If you have a favorite keyboard shortcut, I’d love for you to share it here with your legal nurse consulting colleagues.
Keep on techin’ (with your fingers on the keyboard, not the mouse!),
2 thoughts on “Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Do You Look at Your Legal Nurse Consulting Thumbnails or Not?”
Thanks Tom! I have often thought there must be an easier and faster way to look through a document. You have provided a simple solution to this time consuming issue. As a non computer geek, I have learned “computer-eeze” via the “hit and miss” method. Since each “miss” represents lost time and money, I appreciate not just this article, but all of your contributions to the blog and to the success of all CLNC® consultants!
Thanks, again, Tom! I just finished a 17 page document and am so tired of paging through to find things! Once again, you have taught me how to save precious time that can be used elsewhere!
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Keep on techin’ (with your fingers on the keyboard, not the mouse!),
Thanks Tom! I have often thought there must be an easier and faster way to look through a document. You have provided a simple solution to this time consuming issue. As a non computer geek, I have learned “computer-eeze” via the “hit and miss” method. Since each “miss” represents lost time and money, I appreciate not just this article, but all of your contributions to the blog and to the success of all CLNC® consultants!
Thanks, again, Tom! I just finished a 17 page document and am so tired of paging through to find things! Once again, you have taught me how to save precious time that can be used elsewhere!