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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Mar. 3, 2003&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;Here&amp;#39;s a great tip that &lt;em&gt;Thor Leslie&lt;/em&gt; posted to the V8.General newsgroup:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From your desktop program icon, right-click and go to &lt;em&gt;Properties&lt;/em&gt;. Then put your cursor in the &lt;em&gt;Shortcut&lt;/em&gt; field and press the desired combinations of keys. For example, &lt;em&gt;CTRL + ALT + 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I use a series of shortcuts to launch programs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CTRL+ALT+8 for MicroStation V8&lt;br /&gt;CTRL+ALT+U for MicroStation J&lt;br /&gt;CTRL+ALT+W for Microsoft Word&lt;br /&gt;CTRL+ALT+N for Notpad, and &lt;br /&gt;CTRL+ALT+O for Outlook Express&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No searching for icons....Doesn&amp;#39;t matter what dialogs are open obscuring icons or start menus! I&amp;#39;d be lost without it...Try it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Original Tip Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Mar. 3, 2003&lt;/em&gt;
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			&lt;td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"&gt;Here's a great tip that &lt;em&gt;Thor Leslie&lt;/em&gt; posted to the V8.General newsgroup:&lt;br /&gt;
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			From your desktop program icon, right-click and go to &lt;em&gt;Properties&lt;/em&gt;. Then put your cursor in the &lt;em&gt;Shortcut&lt;/em&gt; field and press the desired combinations of keys. For example, &lt;em&gt;CTRL + ALT + 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			I use a series of shortcuts to launch programs:&lt;br /&gt;
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			CTRL+ALT+8 for MicroStation V8&lt;br /&gt;
			CTRL+ALT+U for MicroStation J&lt;br /&gt;
			CTRL+ALT+W for Microsoft Word&lt;br /&gt;
			CTRL+ALT+N for Notpad, and &lt;br /&gt;
			CTRL+ALT+O for Outlook Express&lt;br /&gt;
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			No searching for icons....Doesn't matter what dialogs are open obscuring icons or start menus! I'd be lost without it...Try it!&lt;br /&gt;
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AskInga Tip #249
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