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Technology Training Tips & Tricks

Technology Training offers drop-in Open Lab hours and formal hands-on classes, but sometimes all you need is a quick tip. Technology Training Tips & Tricks is a collection of some of the best hints we've discovered to make your computing more productive.

GroupWise, BlackBerry, and other mobile devices

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

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Some people have asked if there's a way to synchronize a BlackBerry to GroupWise. IT does offer limited support for the BlackBerry with the subscription of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Departments can purchase licenses for their faculty and staff for $99 per device plus an annual subscription of $40 per device. Find out the details of this service as well as how to sign up at the IT webpage.

For those of you with other mobile devices that need to be synchronized to your GroupWise account, Novell has a GroupWise Mobile Server.

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Get One-on-One Help in our Workshops

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009

Technology Training frequently offers software-specific workshops throughout the quarter. We announce these in our weekly schedule reminder, and on our class schedule. These are drop-in hours where you can get help on a specific software product, such as Excel and PowerPoint.

This upcoming week, we're offering a Photoshop Workshop—perfect for those of you trying to make family photos ready for holiday cards. And while you're at it, why not sign up for our Basic Photo Touchup class?

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The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

Create cool text effects like this.

From Photoshop Roadmap comes this collection of 80 tutorials for creating exciting text effects in Photoshop. Among the tutorials listed include creating 3D text, liquid-looking text, and the multi-layered effect and snow on text as featured in the image. These are all step-by-step and most of them have excellent screen shots so you can follow along with ease. Even the very simple tutorials produce visually appealing effects.

Are you new to Photoshop, or just want to try some of these in a classroom setting? Sign up for our upcoming Creating Text Effects with Photoshop class.

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How to sort titles alphabetically but ignore 'a', 'an', and 'the' in Excel

Monday, Oct. 26, 2009

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From Microsoft Support Knowledge Base: "It is possible to sort titles in Microsoft Excel and ignore articles such as "A," "An," and "The" while sorting. Normally when sorting in Microsoft Excel, the entire contents of the cell are sorted. It is possible to work around this by creating a formula that ignores the articles."

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Word Keyboard Shortcuts

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009

Make your work in Microsoft Word more productive with keyboard shortcuts. Find links to Word keyboard shortcuts for both Mac and PC.

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Assistance for New Office 2007 Users

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

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Although Office 2003 is still the primary software suite on campus, there are now resources for Office 2007 users.

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