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To Install a Printer on Your Computer at Collegiate January 11, 2008

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To Install a Printer on Your Computer at Collegiate:Printing Press

To make this new network copier your default printer:

To change to single sided printing:

If you don’t have a printers folder on your desktop, do the following:

  1. Click on on Start ->
  2. Printers and Faxes ->
  3. Add a Printer -> Next
  4. Select “A Network Printer, or a Printer attached to another computer” and click Next
  5. Click Next to find a printer in the directory
  6. To view all printers available for installation, click Find Now. For a specific printer, put the first few letters in the name box and then select Find Now.
  7. Select the Printer from the list and press OK
  8. Select whether you want this printer to be the default printer on your computer and click Next
  9. Click Finish to complete the installation.

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Creating Quiz, Test, Handout forms in Microsoft Word March 5, 2007

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Tabs with Leaders Example

In MS Word, the tabs are set to automatically indent on your page at .5 in. You can also use tabs to create many different kinds of forms.

To create a Table of Contents:

1. Type Table of Contents at the top of your page and press enter twice.

2. Click Format - Tabs

3. In the window, make the Tab Stop Position 6.0. (This position is shown on the ruler at the top of your page.) Make the Alignment - Right. Make the Leader - 3. Click SET and click OK.

4. On your paper type Chapter 1 and press TAB. Then type 1 and ENTER.

5. Type Chapter 2 and press TAB. Then type 15 and ENTER.

6. Type Chapter 3 and press TAB. Then type 22 and ENTER.

(Notice that the LEADER is the dotted lines and the numbers are lined up on the right side of the page.)

Let’s try another kind of tab.

1. Press enter 3 or 4 times and type Application and press enter twice.

2. Click Format - Tabs

3. Click CLEAR ALL at the bottom. This clears the last tab that we used.

4. Make the Tab Stop Position 3.5 (This position is shown on the ruler at the top of your page.) Make the Alignment - Left. Make the Leader - 4. Click SET and click OK.

4. On your paper type Name and press TAB twice then ENTER.

5. Type Address and press TAB then ENTER.

6. Type City, State, Zip and press TAB then ENTER.

(You could select this and make it double spaced to allow more room for the person to write in the blanks. This is also a great way to prompt for a Name at the top of a paper.)

For tests, quizzes, or handouts, TABS are a great way to make lines to write answers in.

1. Press Enter a few times and click Format - Tabs

2. Click CLEAR ALL at the bottom. This clears the last tab that we used.

3. Where it says Default tab stops, delete the number there and type 0.

4. Make the Tab Stop Position 6. Make the Alignment - Left. Make the Leader - 4. Click SET and click OK.

5. Press TAB then Enter (repeat this 5 times). If you type a question on any line it will simply make the leader shorter on that line. Double space it for more room to write answers.
Have FUN with TABS!

Excel Professional February 15, 2007

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I. Intro – What Can Excel do for me
II. Workbook – Header and Footer; Columns and Rows
III. Worksheets – Insert, delete, rename, copy
IV. Cell Reference – Naming procedure
V. Cell Formatting – Font, font size, color, bold, italic, underline, borders, alignment, wrap text, number, currency, text.
Battleship with cell formatting
VI. Column & Row Formatting – Resize width and height
VII. Setup a Budget Worksheet;

1. Cell A1 Enter text ‘Family Monthly Budget – 2007
2. Highlight Cells A1 through O1.
3. Select Merge and Center tool
4. Cell A2 enter ‘Expenses’
5. Cell B2 enter January
6. Auto Fill February through December
7. Cell N2 enter text ‘Year to Date Totals‘ & Wrap Text
8. Cell O2 enter text ‘Average Monthly Expense‘ & Wrap Text
9. Beginning in Cell A2 enter one of the following expense items in successive cells: Rent, Phone, Electricity, Gas, Water, Cable, Waste Removal, Maintenance, Supplies, Food, Entertainment. The last entry should be Monthly Totals
10. In Column B, January, enter a dollar amount to correspond with each of the expense items listed in Column A
11. For February write a formula using cell references to calculate a projected 10% increase in January expenses
12. Calculate the Monthly Totals – Use Sum function
13. Calculate the Year to Date Totals for each expense item – Use Sum function
14. Calculate the Average Monthly Expense – Use Average Function
13. Create borders on cells
14. Insert > Row above Monthly Totals and add an entry for Transportation with a corresponding expenditure
15. Window > Freeze and Unfreeze panes

VIII. Edit > Move or Copy Sheet > Copy.
IX. Rename Worksheets: 2007; 2008; 2009
Color Code Tabs
X. Page Setup (File menu) – portrait or landscape?
100% or fit to one page wide by 1 page tall?
Print area?
Columns to repeat at top?
Rows to repeat at left?
XI. File > New > Templates – Microsoft Office Online
Family Budget
XII. Tutorials – Atomic Learning
http://www.atomiclearning.com/excel_2003_intro

Digital Photography Tutorials January 12, 2007

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Downloading a Digital Photos on our PC

Digital Photography Workflow: Editing a Photo and Photoshop and Preparing

Uploading a Photo to Flickr

2005: Editing a Photo and Printing it on the Art Lab Epson

Submitting a Ticket to Web Help Desk January 3, 2007

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Click here to view a video of this tutorial.

Web Help Desk pdf instructions.

1. Web Help Desk is available by clicking on the link from Collegiate Connect Intranet Links or pasting this url: http://whd.collegiateschool.org/ in your browser.
2. Login using your Network Login and Password (the username and password you use to log into your computer):

Login

3. Select the Problem Type from the pull down list, enter a Subject and Problem Report and press Continue. Some Problem Types will have a subtype. If it does, you must select a subtype. This allows the system to assign the ticket to the appropriate member of the department.

Help Req 2

4. Scroll down the page. If you have submitted a Computer Hardware or Software request, Web Help Desk will ask you to identify the Model and Location of the machine that you are using. Please select your computer from the My Assets list or enter the Type, Model, Location and Room of your computer. Press Save. To skip this step, just press Save at the bottom of the page.

Add Comp Info 2

5. Your ticket has been submitted!

Done!

6. You will receive an e-mail with a link to check the status of your ticket. You can also log back into Web Help Desk and click on the History button to see the status of your submitted tickets.

Nav

Thanks for using Web Help Desk. As always, if you have questions, please contact a member of the Technology Department.

Collegiate Connect as Your Home Page December 13, 2006

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It’s a great idea to make Collegiate Connect your default homepage so your calendar and other information is the first thing you see when you open your browser in the morning.

Here’s how:

Firefox or Flock:

  1. Open your browser.
  2. Go to http://www.collegiateschool.org/podium
  3. Click on Tools >> Options >> Select the General Tab (or Main in Firefox 2.0), and click on ‘Use Current Page’ from the Home Page area.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open your browser.
  2. Go to http://www.collegiateschool.org/podium
  3. Click on Tools >> Options (or Internet Options in IE 7) and select ‘Use Current’ from the Home page area at the top of the General Tab.

As always, if you see areas that need improvement, please let us know.

Configuring Wireless at Home December 13, 2006

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If you have high speed Internet access (DSL or Cable) we highly recommend that you purchase an inexpensive wireless access point to connect to your Internet Connection. Wireless access points are inexpensive and easy to configure. One that provides many other services such as virus scan and firewall is the DLink Secure Spot . It’s $99 and had a yearly subscription fee, but we think it is well worth it to protect your home computers. We recommend that you hide the SSID of your wireless access point and enable 128 bit WEP encryption. Please see your router documentation on how to configure and enable these services.

Once configured, ThinkVantage Access Connections will automatically switch between your home access point and the school’s wireless network.

To create a new connection connect to your access point, follow these directions:

Windows Toolbar

Manage Profiles

Create new Profile

Create New Profile

AC - Wireless Network Config

AC - Network Security

AC - Configure Proxy

You are now ready to use this connection. To enable it, click on the Access Connections Button (below) and select your network from the list.

AC - Select Connection

For more information, click on the IBM Access Connections Icon on the task bar and select ‘Launch IBM Access Connections’. Then select Help -> Help from the menu.

As always, please feel free to contact a member of the Technology Department as well.

Can’t get to the Internet at Home on an School Laptop December 11, 2006

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Symptom: You can check e-mail at home using the FirstClass client, but can’t get to the Internet using Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Fix:

  1. Start -> Programs -> ThinkVantage -> Access Connections
  2. Click on Manage
  3. Select your home Profile and Profile/Action and then Edit from the menubar
  4. Click on Advanced Settings tab
  5. Select the Settings button to the right of Override proxy configuration (check the box as well)
    Access Connections Override Proxy Configuration
  6. Check the automatically detect settings button and Do not use proxy.
    Proxy Settings
  7. Disconnect your connection and reconnect — you must also close and open IE and/or Firefox.