UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: June 2005 Archives

Microsoft has a Tips site on "How to Use Windows XP." It contains 365 tips for the average user. To access it, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/default.mspx

Are you tired of pressing Tab at the beginning of a line, only to have
your whole paragraph indented? Change Word's behavior so that the Tab
key works like you expect it to.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1147
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

If you need to print a number of Word documents that reside in
the same folder, you can send them all to the printer in record
time. In fact, you don't even need to open the documents. Simply
press and hold the [Ctrl] key (press and hold [command][control]
in v. X) while selecting each file. (If your files are
consecutive, you can press and hold [Shift] while selecting the
first and last file.) Once you've selected all the files you want
to print, right-click one of the files and select Print from the
shortcut menu.

Courtesy of: Element K tips

In Excel 2002 you can now jazz up your headers or footers with
graphics. To do this, choose View | Header And Footer from the
menu bar. In the Page Setup dialog box, click either the Custom
Header or Custom Footer button. In the resulting dialog box,
click in the section where you want the graphic to appear (either
the Left, Center, or Right section). Then, click the Insert
Picture button. Locate and select the graphic file then click
Insert. You can also double-click on the graphic filename to
insert the graphic. Now, click OK twice to return to your
workbook.

Use Print Preview to see how the graphic looks on the worksheet.
To adjust the size or appearance of the graphic, open the Custom
Header or Custom Footer dialog box again. Place your insertion
point in the section that contains the picture placeholder,
&[Picture]. Then, click on the Format Picture button in the
dialog box to change the size, scale, or color of the image.
Click OK three times to return to your workbook.

Courtesy of: Element K tips

In previous versions of PowerPoint, you could only apply one
design template to a presentation. If you wanted to have more
than one, you had to jump through some hoops. Now, PowerPoint
2002 allows you to have multiple design templates within a
presentation. To apply a design template, first create the slides
with one design template. Then, to add another design template to
certain slides, in the Slide Pane select the slides that will
display the second template. You can hold down the [Ctrl] key and
click on non-adjacent slides. To select a group of adjacent
slides, select the first slide in the group, hold down the
[Shift] key and click on the last slide in the group. All the
slides in-between are selected. Then, apply a new design either
by clicking on the Design button on the Formatting toolbar, or by
right-clicking on a selected slide and choosing Slide Design. In
the Design task pane, select the template and it's applied to all
the preselected slides.

Courtesy of: Element K tips

Did you get a document from a co-worker or friend, and you want to
reset all the tab stops in the document? Doing so is easy if you know
the proper steps.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1091
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Word allows you to add borders around paragraphs. For most people, the
distance between the border and the text in the paragraph is too
little. Here's how to control that distance very precisely.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1669
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Word has had the ability to place tables within tables since the
release of Word 2000. This tip describes how you can best place tables
into a table cell and the best way to format the tables.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1667
Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

One of the grammar tools provided in Word is a method to add
hyphenation to words appearing at the end of a line. This tip explains
how to perform both automatic and manual hyphenations of an entire
document.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0616

Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Do you need some information to appear left-aligned and right-aligned
on the same line? This tip describes how you can use tabs to
accomplish this formatting task.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0623

Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Word includes the ability to display toolbar icons in two sizes:
regular and large. You can turn on the large icons by using the
Customize dialog box, as described in this tip.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0254

Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Macros can be used to format portions of your document. In order to
format the right indent of a paragraph, you use the RightIndent
property. This tip explains how to use this property to get just the
indent you need.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1144

Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Do you need to save individualized copies of documents for a series of
individuals? This tip describes how to do just that, without using
mail merge. Individual names are pulled from a text file and placed in
the header of each document just before the document is saved.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0464

Courtesy of: Allen Wyatt's WordTips

The State of New Hampshire offers training courses for a nominal fee to UNH and state employees.

Offerings this summer include:

Microsoft Access - 2 levels
Microsoft Excel - 2 levels
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word - 2 levels

In addition, they offer short courses in topics such as PC Fundamentals, and Special topics using Office.

To see this summer's listings, go to: http://www.nh.gov/hr/docs/training_courses_spring_2005.pdf Page 7 of this guide lists the summer class calendar.

CLL will be offering computer workshops on the following applications during July and August.

Microsoft Access - 3 levels

Microsoft Excel - 3 levels

Microsoft Word

All of the above offerings are located at their Portsmouth Center

In addition, they offer a credit course in Software Tools. That is offered both as a traditional class located in Rochester, and as an Interactive (on line) course.

For further information, please consult their summer listings at: http://www.cll.edu/news/assets/locationlist_summer05.pdf

CIS (Computing & Information Services) has announced their training list for June & July. There are several FREE sessions in addition to their vendor-based training. Some August offerings have also been posted.

Sign up early for CIS classes. Not only are the most popular classes oversubscribed early; CIS has begun to cancel classes which are under-enrolled two weeks prior to the class date.

As of this posting, CIS has announced they will be offering training in the following topics this summer:

* Adobe Acrobat
* Blackboard - 13 FREE courses in 5 different topics
* Dreamweaver (3 levels)
* Excel - 2 levels
* Photoshop - 2 levels & special topics
* PowerPoint - 2 levels

In addition, CIS offers a FREE training series, entitled Computing @ UNH. Offerings include:

Using Photoshop to Enhance Digital Images - July 27th

Computing @ UNH: Using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to Create Webpages - August 24th

Scanning Demonstration (offered three times)
* June 23rd
* July 28th
* August 25th

To see current offerings and their descriptions, or sign up for a session, use their website at: http://training.unh.edu They keep adding to their offerings, so check back for updated information.