Tech Tip For Writers #9: Quickly Hide Your Screen
Tech Tips for Soon-to-be Great Writers
Tech Tips for Writers is an (almost) weekly post on overcoming Tech Dread. I'll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I'll cover it in a future Tip.
Q: How do I quickly hide what I'm working on from prying eyes. Not just the Win 7 key that minimizes everything to the desktop, but so it looks like I'm working on something else than what I am?
A: Press "alt tab" simultaneously on your keyboard (or Command-Tab on a Mac). It'll hide the window that's on your screen and bring up one from behind it. This trick is used most often by office personnel, hiding the fact that they're surfing the Net at work, but it's useful for any number of other reasons. It's also a verb, as in, "I had to alt tab when my boyfriend dropped by."
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Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman , the story of her daughter's journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com , and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education . Currently, she's working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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