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Disable the "reply all" button on your corporate e-mail system, advises information overload expert Nathan Zeldes. You don't want to completely ban replying to everyone but it shouldn't be easy. So provide a less-accessible menu button or let people resort to cutting and pasting all the addresses. Nathan Zeldes Newsletter
Survival comes first, then Facebook
Tech observer Nicholas Carr suggests a hierarchy of innovation exists that parallels Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Societal progress starts with technologies of survival and moves on to technologies of social organization, prosperity, leisure, and the self. Today, innovation occurs at all levels but rewards are greatest at the pinnacle of self. Rough Type Blog
Treadmill desks can improve recall
If you figure you would be less productive using a treadmill desk, a postdoctoral researcher at HEC in Montreal suggests you're wrong. Although they comprised a small sample, participants reading a lengthy text while periodically receiving e-mail scored 35-per-cent better on a recall test. Michael Roberto's Blog
Put vital information on first screen
Page fold still matters online, even as we become more used to scrolling with mobiles. Researcher Amy Schaude suggests an 84-per-cent difference between the attention given information above and below the first screen, or fold. Put your key information high and give reasons to scroll lower. Nielsen Norman Group
Insert a big capital in Word documents
Spiff up a Microsoft Word document with a large drop capital inserted at the start of a paragraph: Select the paragraph's first letter; choose insert tab on the ribbon; in the text section click Drop Cap; choose preferred position for it; select format preferences; and click on OK. Allen Wyatt's Word Tips
Harvey Schachter is a Battersea, Ont.-based writer specializing in management issues. He writes Monday Morning Manager and management book reviews for the print edition of Report on Business and an online work-life column, Balance. E-mail harvey@harveyschachter.com
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