Setting Options, and customizing the Drawing toolbar.
Under Tools, Options (Alt-t o), set the following:
“View” tab: Print and Web Layout Options—check Drawings and Object Anchors
“General” tab: If you are using Office XP, UNcheck “Automatically create Drawing Canvas when inserting AutoShapes”
(The Drawing Canvas is a new feature in Word 2002, designed to make it easy to create a complex shape. I have yet to discover any value to it, and find it to be simply a nuisance.)
“Edit” tab: Check “Enable click and type”. This may be useful when you are working with a drawing, since it allows you to position text in relation to the drawing without hitting the Enter key repeatedly.
If you are using Word 2002, I recommend unchecking “Show Paste Option Buttons”. These buttons get in the way, and even sneak there way into my web documents!
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Seasoned Microsoft Office users may be familiar with both templates and styles; in Office, they’re a key to increased productivity. However, many Office users never touch them. In OOo, styles and templates are even more important than in Office, and wise users will become familiar with both the concepts and the details of using them.
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Microsoft Publisher 2007 is a really neat program that allows you to create professional quality newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, calendars, award certificates, calling cards, paper airplanes, origami – and a whole lot more great “things.”
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Writing documents in Microsoft Word™ is convenient and produces good looking results, but posting these documents to web sites presents a problem. Students who do not have a copy of Word installed can not view the documents. When a person without Word left-clicks on the link to the word document, they will be prompted to download the doc as a file. If they figure out how to download it and then try to open it, they will be presented with several unfriendly looking windows asking them how to open the file. This is more than enough to scare off the average student.
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This guide provides the basic information necessary to start a Mercuri Illustrate Lite or Pro Web Conference. Please review the requirements to ensure you have everything you need to get started and then continue through the remainder of this guide to conduct your first Mercuri Illustrator conference. If you need additional assistance getting started or if you do not yet have an account contact Mercuri Product Marketing support at 1-888-661-7777 or css@Mercuri.ca. Online help is available when using Illustrate Lite and Pro (top toolbar to the right).
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Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with this Quick-Start Guide. It is the best way to get off to a speedy start with PitStop Extreme. Create a new, blank PDF document in PitStop Extreme by choosing File > New, or use some sample PDF documents, and feel free to experiment and play around with the tools described in this Quick-Start Guide. You will quickly get an idea of the essentials of Enfocus PitStop Extreme.
For detailed, complete descriptions of all the features and concepts of PitStop Extreme, please refer to the User Guide or Help.
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Gradekeeper is a powerful tool for managing your gradebook. With Gradekeeper you can:
• Have 250 students per class
• Have 100 assignments per term
• Group assignments into 10 categories
• Excuse individual assignments for any student
• Drop the “worst” score in one or more categories
• Compute grades based on total points or category weights
• Assign letter grades based on your own letter grade cutoffs
• Have final exams contribute to term, semester, or final grades
• Keep every score and assignment for the entire school year
• Divide your school year into two, three, four, or six terms
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eStatement is a service provided by your institution to allow you to view your documents through the Internet. As an eStatement user, you have a personalized eStatement home page that you can use to access all the documents archived for you by your institution. In addition, your institution can send you an email notification each time a new document is available.
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