UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: June 2006 Archives

Granite State College is offering training in Excel and Access this summer at its Portsmouth campus.

Sessions in 3 levels each of Excel & Access are being offered during July and August. Remember that University employees qualify or a tuition break. (See: http://extension.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/unh_disc.htm )

For further information on GSC's summer computer offerings, go to: http://www.granite.edu/news/assets/workshops01.pdf

The grammar-checker in Word is configurable, which means that you can set it up to check (or not check) various elements of your document's structure. Of course, Word also makes it rather "non-intuitive" to figure out where to make these configuration changes. This tip explains how to find the grammar-checker settings and then make the
changes you desire.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0656

One of the lesser-used tools in Word is the Object Browser. This is a real shame, as the Object Browser is the hands-down fastest way to find different objects and elements of your document. This tip explains not only what the Object Browser is, but also how to use this cool tool.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0752

If you are a WordPerfect user, you may be very familiar with the block-protect feature, and wonder if there is a similar tool in Word. There isn't, but as this tip explains, there are ways you can work around what may appear to be a shortcoming in Word.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1767

CIS has announced two new offerings this summer, which may be of interest to faculty and professional staff. They are:

Desktop Video Demonstration for Faculty Only - June 28
Submitting Proposals via Grant.gov - July 18 and August 16

For further information, go to their web site at: http://training.unh.edu

The Go To dialog box allows you to quickly and easily jump from place
to place in your document. This tip explains how you can go from one
page number to another.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0027

Adding page numbers to a header or footer is a snap, and Word allows
you to control exactly how those page numbers appear. This tip
explains how you can choose different numbering systems (letters,
numbers, etc.) to accomplish the page numbering.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0091

If you have a document with lots of existing highlighting, you might
want to change it all to a different color. Word makes this easy by
using a rather arcane portion of the Find and Replace dialog box.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1764

If you display your document in full-screen mode, there are a couple
of ways you can get back to normal mode. One method relies on a
special toolbar, but what are you to do if that toolbar doesn't
display as you expect? This tip provides a couple of things you can do
to get operations back to normal.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1763

I've added a new question type to Formbuilder, so that Matrix-type questions can accept multiple responses (checkboxes) instead of just one response (radio button.) For example:

After a few weeks, months, or years of editing Word's menus, you may forget what the original menus looked like. Don't despair; there is a quick and easy way to return individual menus to their default state.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0677

By default, Word uses what you type to replace anything you had selected when you started typing. If you don't like that approach to editing, you can change Word's behavior by making just one little change in the Options dialog box.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0789

Editing AutoText entries, and particularly deleting them, can be cumbersome if you have a lot of changes to make. There are a couple of easier ways you can get rid of lots of unwanted AutoText entries, as described in this tip.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1761

If you merge information into a Word document from Excel, you know that it can sometimes be challenging to get the information imported in just the way you expect. Case in point: leading zeroes in ZIP Codes. What do you do if the zeroes don't appear in the merged data?

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1760

Word allows you to easily adjust the amount of white space before and after a paragraph. Rather than continually displaying the Paragraph dialog box, you may want to use the macros in this tip to make short work of adding the desired space.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1341

When you first create a new document, Word keeps track of the date on which the event occurs. You can then, at any time, insert that special date into a document. This tip shows exactly how easy it is to do so.

Read the full tip: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T0585

MarTech is offering a session for county staff training on YOUTH Blue Ribbon software. They are calling it "Queries." It will be: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:00 pm Central Time.

It is on-line and requires a high-speed connection. It can be projected using PicTel, or any projection system.

For further info, please contact Judy at MarTech at: judym@martechsys.com - Phone: 715-845-2794

The Perils of PC Posture:

eWEEK picked the brains of a slew of ergonomics and other posture professionals, who all voiced the sobering truth that human beings were not designed to fold themselves into computer workstations each day. But, they weren't all gloom and doom—they also suggested simple adjustments workers can make to save themselves from a lifetime of aching backs and sore necks.