Category: Office Tips

OneNote!

I have heard about it, read about it and now am using it and am convinced!

Many of us carry a notebook or notepad around to take notes for business, school, or personal projects. But can you easily find — and decipher — the info you need? Is it convenient to share your notes with others? Take control with Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, the easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program where you can capture ideas and information in electronic form. Insert files or Web content in full-color, searchable format or as icons that you can click to access. Watch this demo to see how simple it is to gather, format, organize, and share information. And then say goodbye to your notepad!

Who, What, Where & When

Use your Outlook Calendar to help keep your work/life organized.  With many smart phones you can also sync your Outlook Calendar to your phone.  This link from Microsoft gives lots of good tips such as:

Organize Meetings


Simply select a time on your Calendar, create an appointment, and select people to invite. Outlook will help you find the earliest time at which all the people are free. When the meeting notice is sent to invitees by e-mail, each will receive a meeting request in Inbox. When they open it, Outlook notifies them if the meeting conflicts with an existing item in their Calendar, and they can accept, tentatively accept, or decline your meeting by clicking a single button. If allowed by you, as meeting organizer, invitees can counter-propose an alternate meeting time. As organizer, you can track who has accepted, declined, or counter-proposed times, simply by opening the meeting.

Contact OET if you would like to learn more and need assistance in setting up your calendar!

from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP030759191033.aspx

Tired old slides . . .

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Want to use something different than everyone else on your PowerPoint Slides?  ” SlideFinder is a PowerPoint presentation search engine that can help you find new slides and inspiration.

SlideFinder catalogs publicly available PowerPoint presentations and indexes them by content. You can search for and download thousands of PowerPoint presentations to help with everything from ideas on how to layout your next presentation to color schemes.

Microsoft also offers additional themes, tutorials and examples at this site.

Have your own tips, tricks, or tools for making presentations better? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

Check this link out on how to “Broadcast” a Powerpoint presentation.

Camtasia

Camtasia is screen recording software that records your on screen activity, audio, and web cam video. Camtasia also provides a PowerPoint Add-In so you can easily narrate a PowerPoint file and share it with your students. Camtasia Training.  In addition to recording class lectures, you can use Camtasia to provide learning resources to students, take your students on a guided tour of your online course environment, provide a “how to” demonstration, and much, much more.

Camtasia is now available for faculty from ITCS, just contact the Help Desk and request the software.  Academic Outreach is providing training sessions July 14 & 16.

If those dates don’t work for you the OET will be glad to provide a demo and/or help you get started with this software.  Just contact our office!

Tutorials – http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/default.asp

Embed Utube Videos in PowerPoint 2007

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Play YouTube Flash Video Online in PowerPoint with Internet Access

  1. In PowerPoint 2007, go to PowerPoint Options -> Popular -> click “Show Developer tab in the Ribbon”.
  2. In the Control Toolbox, click the last icon “More Controls” which is displayed as hammer plus wrench. In the set of controls available on your computer, select “Shockwave Flash Object”. Then use your mouse to draw and resize an area in the slide as you like to place your YouTube video.
  3. Go to the YouTube video page you’d like to add, and check the URL in the address bar of your Web browser. You’ll get an address like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4 Change the phrase watch?v= to v/, and now the address become http://www.youtube.com/v/hChq5drjQl4
  4. Right click the area you drew which is displayed as a big cross, select Properties and go to Properties tab. Copy and paste the YouTube video address in the field as value of attribute Movie; set the value of attribute Playing and Loop to False. Close the Properties tab when everything is done.

from http://jennylu.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/youtube-into-powerpoint-wikihow-has-advice/

YouTube Demonstration – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4&feature=related

Contact OET for additional help.

Office 2007 in Summer 2009

What better time to update to Office 2007 then during the summer.  The OET will be happy to assist with the upgrade and any training you need.  The first step in upgrading is to contact the Help Desk with a request for Office 2007, their number is 328-9866.  You can find various training links and information in the OET’s Blackboard course in which you are enrolled as a student.  Check it out!