Boosting Efficiency At The Workplace: Q&A With David Benaim
By B2B Cambodia
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David Benaim is the founder of local consulting firm Xlconsulting, which specialises in IT and accounting solutions for small businesses and NGOs. Besides being a chartered accountant, Benaim is a Microsoft Office specialist (and enthusiastic!) who shares his expert knowledge of the software in presentations he delivers around Phnom Penh. A recurrent theme in Benaim’s presentations is increasing efficiency and productivity in the workplace.
B2B: What are some of the very practical and simple ways in which your everyday office worker can boost his/ her productivity with Microsoft Office?
Benaim: In general, we should try to think of ways to Do Once, Reuse Often (DORO). This is the basis of copy & paste, a tool which we all love to use, there are, however, several tools just as useful as copy & paste which go unused. Here are some examples across MS Office:
- Double clicking the format painter to lock it; this allows you to repeat the same formatting multiple times
- Pressing Ctrl (Cmd in Mac) + Y is the way to repeat last format action
- Select text and increase font size with Ctrl (Cmd in Mac) + Shift + >