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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.

  • 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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  • Microsoft Word Tips

    Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
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    Allen Wyatt's Word Tips is a great place to find all quick tips or pointers on how to do things in Word. Want tips delivered straight to you? Then subscribe to daily or weekly newsletters with tips for Microsoft Word. ----- Word Tips contains thousands of tips and tricks on how to use Word better, faster, and more easily. You can browse through the index by clicking on the links or enter your question or keywords in the search box at the top-right corner of every page. Information in Word Tips covers many different versions of Microsoft Word for the PC: Word 6, Word 95, Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007.
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  • Get One-on-One Software Help 5 Days a Week

    Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
    Come by during Open Lab hours on Tuesdays from 1:45-3:45 PM, or Sunday-Thursday from 7-10 PM in the Learning Commons.
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