Itty Bitty Timesavers

Sometimes the little things make the biggest difference. There are lots of shortcuts in The Education Edge, and after all, those fractions of seconds add up to minutes. Let us look at a few of them:

Export Preview: Use the preview button to review the first 15 records included in an export. You should be able to get a good idea if the correct data is going to export from this preview. The few seconds it takes to preview is betting than waiting for hundreds of records to export, opening the file in Excel only to find you forgot to include the last name field.

F3: Press F3 in any date field to automatically enter the current day's date.

Military Time: Enter military time in any time field and it will automatically convert to a.m. or p.m. Plus it's fun to enter 15 o'clock instead of 3:00 p.m.

F7: Press F7 to open a fields' table entry list. Use this to clean up table entries on the fly, and you no longer have to second guess the fields in the table.

Open Records from a Query: Query results aren't just a list of records; double-click the record in the results to open it. If you want to view the next record in the query results while that record is still open, click use the arrow buttons on that record's action bar to scroll through the records.

Selecting a default search field: You may search for a record by the Student ID, while others may search using the last name. Have each user select the default search field on the record screens and open records faster!

User Options: Never underestimate the time saving powers of your user options. Something as simple as setting the page the program opens to can make your day.

Do you have any other shortcuts? Share them by posting a comment!