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There must be a better way! Please help me be efficient at work!

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At my job, I have many slips that I must fill out every day, with the following information: student name, teacher name, class period, and the next day’s date. The information changes daily, as I do not see the same kids every day. In the past, I have always filled these out by hand on a printed template, but I can imagine that there is a much faster way, using tools in either Microsoft or Google. I have about 150 students, and I see roughly 40 per day. I will eventually meet with each student 6 times, so shortcuts for student names would be awesome. My first plan that I thought of would be to create autocorrect shortcuts for my students. For example, a student named “Jasmine Kalamazoo” could be keyed in as *jaskal and autocorrect to the full name. To be honest, making 150 of those shortcuts sounds like a lot of extra work when there might be something better that I am not thinking of. I’d like it if my document knew whose name I was typing and suggested the full name. Is that a thing I can set up somehow?

Another feature I would like would be to be able to hit tab to get to the next field, as opposed to clicking and highlighting to make changes to the document. Is that possible to create?

I’m just a formatting rookie, trying to learn how to be better. Thanks for helping my workflow!

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