Kelly LaForest

I love stumbling upon keyboard shortcuts in my favourite Office programs. (There’s hundreds of keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office so it’s easy to do. Kudos to whomever has memorized them all.)  Today while taking notes in Microsoft OneNote in Full Page View, I accidentally hit CTRL + G. To my delight the navigation pane popped …

Microsoft’s free email, Outlook.com, comes with 5 GB of free storage in the OneDrive. I am currently using 20 GB of my allotted 30 GB and was curious what was taking up so much space. (I am a lucky gal who has 30 GB for free from a previous promotion.) Fortunately there’s a fantastic tool in …

I was delighted to be invited to be part of a Q&A session with my  friends and fellow techies Heather Severino and Alec McCauley, organized by Jared DeCamp, as part of his Learn Teams Conference 2018 (a free online event which ran from April 3-7, 2018). The post-conference event gave attendees an opportunity to ask us …

Opened up OneNote for Windows 10 as I found some fun new bullet journal inspiration on Pinterest that I wanted to try my hand at duplicating using the OneNote Inking pens. To my delight there was a new feature pop-up stating that customized pens will now travel with you across devices! The announcement says: “Choose …

Some time ago my OneNote Web Clipper extension for my Google Chrome browser disappeared. I was rather annoyed that I had to click on the vertical three dots icon to access theClip to OneNote button. I lived with this annoyance for over 6 months before feeling compelled to figure it out. It was an embarrassingly …

My Android phone received three new features in February 2018: Resize and organize Lasso select Better support when handwriting notes I’m often late to the party, but always game to try new things so let’s take each of these for a spin in my next three posts. In this post I’ll review the Resize and Organize …

I am amazed how tools that I use every day continue to provide surprises. I stumbled upon one the other day when using the OneNote Web Clipper. The OneNote Web Clipper extension for the Chrome browser is a huge time saver that makes collecting and organizing research easy. I find the Clip to OneNote interface simple …

I have whined about the absence of the Clear Formatting button in the Mini Toolbar in Microsoft OneNote 2016 for years. Turns out it’s been there all along. Yeah, that’s right. I stumbled upon my favourite pink eraser command button with the same grace as an adult tripping over their untied shoes. If you click …